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Ontohackers: Radical Movement Philosophy in the Age of Extinctions and Algorithms, Part III: Metahistories of Movement: Philosophies in Becoming

Published: 10/24/2025

Ontohackers redefines what movement, worlds, and bodies are through the sense of proprioception reconceptualized as formless fluctuation field, a movement matrix that is itself also thought, and which underlies all life forms and fields, including the inorganic. Our worlds are made of endless such entangled fields n-folding in neverending variation or enferance. The current planetary[…]

Ack! Knowledge! Work!

FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

Katherine Behar’s artworks bring automation technologies into visibility, highlighting in particular how such technologies “work” to make work invisible. Motifs of human absence run throughout Behar’s robotic installations, sculptures, and video works and that absence is matched by material footprints of nonhuman over-productivity. The result is an abundance of slippages between knowledge work, white-collar class[…]

Drag Education: RuPaul, Queer Theory, and the Politics of Teaching

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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[…]

Ontohackers: Radical Movement Philosophy in the Age of Extinctions and Algorithms, Part II: R/evolution Technologies

Published: 05/27/2025

Ontohackers redefines what movement, worlds, and bodies are through the sense of proprioception reconceptualized as formless fluctuation field, a movement matrix that is itself also thought, and which underlies all life forms and fields, including the inorganic. Our worlds are made of endless such entangled fields n-folding in neverending variation or enferance. The current planetary[…]

Cries from the Merry-Go-Round: A Fugue of Shouts from an Anti-Ableist Activist

FORTHCOMING Summer 2025

Cries from the Merry-Go-Round: A Fugue of Shouts from an Anti-Ableist Activist is a work of creative activism that suggests a redefinition of what a shout can be. In this case, the Shouts are literary expressions that call attention to urgent, emergent, or continuing daily acts of micro- and macro-aggressions against people living with disabilities[…]

Desire: Subject, Sexuation, and Love

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FORTHCOMING Summer 2025

Have you ever wondered what makes you wake up in the morning? Why not just lay down, stay, and eventually disappear? What is the wanting, the energy, and the grace of liveliness? Desire is at the core of liveliness, and this book explains why it is so. Desire is much more than a mere appendix[…]

Animal Emotions: How They Drive Human Behavior

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Published: 06/18/2020

Animal Emotions: How They Drive Human Behavior gives a concise overview of ancient mammalian emotions deeply rooted in the human brain. Jaak Panksepp, a world-renowned neuroscientist, dedicated his life career to the study of mammalian emotions and he carved out seven distinct emotional systems he called seeking, lust, care, and play (positive emotions), and fear,[…]