Asterisks

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Asterisks collects thirteen essays that explore literature, cinema, history, and queerness, while persistently returning to the question of how to write, create, and live in a world roiled by fascism and suffering. Beginning with memories of growing up with a father who was a gun dealer and participating in AIDS activism in the 1990s, Matthew[…]

Works for Works, Book 1: Useless Beauty

Published: 07/28/2022

Works for Works, Book 1: Useless Beauty tackles “legacy” issues of intellectual property rights (IPR) in artistic production and academic scholarship and proposes a category or class of works that has no relation to IPR nor to proprietary regimes of copyright and academic privilege. Keeney’s book is a structuralist argument for establishing new forms of[…]