Imprint: Risking Education
FORTHCOMING Winter 2027
“I think of myself as less of a judge and more of a teacher.” So said the Queen of Drag, RuPaul Andre Charles, on the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race—the Emmy Award-winning reality show competition that cemented RuPaul’s status as the most influential drag queen in the world. Via her international and still-expanding Drag[…]
Published: 09/04/2025
Whose Mediterranean are we talking about? What languages are most appropriate to its reception and understanding? With two-thirds of the Mediterranean constituted by the histories and cultures of its African and Asian shorelines and hinterlands, and its principal spoken language being Arabic – in all its variants and dialects – then the Mediterranean clearly exceeds[…]
Published: 07/25/2025
Historiographies of Game Studies offers a first-of-its-kind reflection on how game studies as an academic field has been shaped and sustained. Today, game studies is a thriving field with many dedicated national and international conferences, journals, professional societies, and a strong presence at conferences in disciplines like computer science, communication, media studies, theater, visual arts,[…]
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[…]