Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 07/03/2025
Waves washing up against the hull, a bed and a small stove, the deck hatch sealed shut — the vessel is the ultimate dwelling. How to live together in cramped quarters? How to create a microcosm against hostile surroundings? In Barge Life, Florian Deroo tackles these questions by looking at a mythical classic of French[…]
FORTHCOMING Fall 2025
What do a pudgy, orange autocrat, and pumped-up men in tights have in common? The connections, while profound, all rest on specific strategies employed by World Wrestling Entertainment during the early 2000s (known as WWE’s “Attitude Era”) when Donald Trump was centrally involved with the promotion of WWE. These are: (1) universally breaking kayfabe, the[…]
Published: 05/09/2025
Concrete is a ubiquitous part of our world. It composes our dwellings and shapes our infrastructures. It unites and divides urban space and is used to wage both war and peace. Concrete is simultaneously an indicator of freedom and development and is an essential part of the carceral apparatus. The Social Properties of Concrete begins[…]
Imprint: MAI: Feminism and Culture
FORTHCOMING Winter 2026
What do images have to do with the stubborn perception that women are naturally and fundamentally mothers? How can artwork aligned with feminism teach us to see women differently? In Writing in the Kitchen with Martha Rosler and Carrie Mae Weems: From Reproductive Labor to the Affective Labor of the Image, Kimberly Lamm explores these[…]
FORTHCOMING Fall 2025
In Frantz Fanon’s eyes, decolonization “sets out to change the order of the world.” Is that even possible today? If it is in any sense possible in our times, what would this involve: what kind of changes? a decolonial manual is an adventure in thinking through these questions with a hopeful attention on meaningful, enworlded[…]
FORTHCOMING Spring 2026
The Specter of AIDS is a transdisciplinary text originally written in 1980s Brasil in a time of pandemic emergency. It situates how HIV/AIDS reconfigured intimacy, sexuality, and power while also providing a minoritarian theory of desire lived by dissident sexualities in 1980s Latin America. Perlongher’s paper exposes a new barometer of life undergirded by medico-scientific[…]
FORTHCOMING Fall 2025
Art makes diverse ways of being within and seeing the world emerge. Looking at, thinking about, and living alongside art is both a gesture of avoidance—of capital’s goals to normalize, control, and structure life—and a gesture of hope: encountering other models for living while lost inside the work. Shift Work is a book of experimental[…]
Published: 02/28/2025
In the contemporary West, the elderly are regarded as somehow “other,” no longer who they used to be, no longer full members of the worlds they once inhabited. Being old is seen as a medical management issue. But old age is not a defective version of what preceded it; it is—like childhood, adolescence, and middle[…]