These guidelines take effect after a complete book manuscript has been submitted for review, been accepted by punctum, and placed under contract. Some steps might be completely wrong for your book. Nevertheless, this document describes the usual steps for preparing final manuscripts once they are ready (post-review, post-revisions, etc.) to go into production. (It was[…]
These guidelines take effect after a complete book manuscript has been submitted for review, been accepted by punctum, and placed under contract. Some steps might be completely wrong for your book. Nevertheless, this document describes the usual steps for preparing final manuscripts once they are ready (post-review, post-revisions, etc.) to go into production. (It was[…]
Since 2018, Punctum has been engaged in a partnership with UCSB Library, in order to develop a non-author-facing fees OA book publishing model that privileges cooperative expertise and knowledge sharing between librarians, knowledge managers, publishers, and scholar-researchers. This partnership has enabled punctum to significantly extend its partner network. punctum is a member of the Radical[…]
Published: 03/26/2018
Trouble Songs is a hybrid serial work that tracks the appearance of the word “trouble” in 20th- and 21st-century American music. It reads (and sings) songs and poems, with reference to cultural events ranging from the death of a pop singer to the growth of popular resistance movements. The trouble singer invokes the word “trouble” in[…]
Imprint: Punctum Records
Published: 09/05/2016
Fugitive Traces is an album and accompanying PDF booklet that collages the director’s commentary from over a dozen Werner Herzog films with electronic, chamber, and rock music to both pay homage to one of the world’s most visionary filmmakers and critique an artistic practice rooted in contradiction and frequent disaster. Fugutive Traces (album) You know[…]
Imprint: eth press
Published: 10/05/2017
There have been many iterations of the Joan of Arc story: “testimonies,” books, and films have attempted to capture the drama of one of history’s most famous gender warriors. But few, if any, have been undertaken by an author who met her subject matter with such recognition and insight, a fellow warrior, a rebel in[…]
by EILEEN A. FRADENBURG JOY Caring for [ourselves] is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare. ~ Audre Lorde But we can’t (and we won’t!) continue to be administered by a ruthless regime of technocrats that wants to turn everyone and everything into bodiless data, into sermons sent over[…]
by Eileen Joy In the spirit of Open Access also (ideally) meaning transparency of the data of open-access publishing, here are some figures from punctum books, followed by a plea. Ever since launching our Graduated Open Access platform at the beginning of this year (whereby PDFs of each of our titles are available for $5.00[…]