Published: 12/01/2022
In the face of unimaginably violent systems, our most vulnerable bodies—sick, disabled, unable to rise from bed—offer the resistance of imperative vulnerability. What can we learn from the body that cannot help but fail? How can porosity perform treachery within entrenched opressions? What kind of reading and relationship to text can enrich relationship instead of[…]
Published: 05/11/2023
For every generic type of monster—ghost, demon, vampire, dragon—there are countless locally specific manifestations, with their own names, traits, and appearances. Such monsters populate all corners of the globe haunting their humans wherever they live. Living with Monsters is a collection of fourteen short pieces of ethnographic fiction (and a more academically-inclined introduction and afterword)[…]
Imprint: Advanced Methods
Published: 09/15/2022
What does it mean to “speak for the social” in projects of technical and infrastructural change? This is the problem that the contributors to Speaking for the Social: A Catalogue of Methods set out to explore through a series of creative interventions that reimagine the role for qualitative social science in understanding and shaping design[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 12/22/2022
The Angels Won’t Help You is a book about the uniqueness and primacy of help, particularly in relation to care, love, and caritas. It relies heavily on psychoanalytic and philosophical accounts of help and care and finds that help requires the establishment of a real relationship between persons, where help is given and received in[…]
Published: 04/14/2022
In the early twentieth century, Uchiyama Gudō, Seno’o Girō, Lin Qiuwu, and others advocated a Buddhism that was radical in two respects. Firstly, they adopted a more or less naturalist stance with respect to Buddhist doctrine and related matters, rejecting karma or other supernatural beliefs. And secondly, they held political and economic views that were[…]
Published: 10/21/2021
What happens when the defining moment of your life might be a figment of your imagination? How do you understand—and live with—definitive feelings of having been abused when the origin of those feelings won’t adhere to a singular event but are rather diffused across years of experience? In Bullied: The Story of an Abuse, Jonathan[…]
Published: 05/19/2022
Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture brings together Black Studies and architectural theory. Only recently have architecture and urban planning started to confront their constitution of race as a social referent as well as their part in the establishment of racist logics. This confrontation usually results in projects that respond to their surroundings, that merge into a[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 12/15/2021
When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media–music, videos, games, and software–before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free.[…]