Barge Life: On Jean Vigo’s “L’Atalante”

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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[…]

Unexpected Flourishing: Growth from Decay in the Mycelial University

FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

Unexpected Flourishing is a book about rotting logs, higher education, and critical hope. Katina L. Rogers draws on the hope and possibility of mycorenewal to ask what possibilities for unexpected flourishing we can find within higher education’s decay, and how we can cultivate conditions where these possibilities can thrive: a mycelial university. In a forest,[…]

The Social Properties of Concrete

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[…]

War Machine

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FORTHCOMING Spring 2026

War Machine is a speculative sounding of the myriad entanglements of technology, ecology, discourse, politics, and conflict shaping the contemporary environment. Taking the tools of geopolitical competition and control as its formal and conceptual basis—wargame simulations, artificial intelligence, weaponised drones, territorial enclosure, and extractivist economics—War Machine presents a series of digitally simulated conflicts over the[…]

Mourning the Ends: Collaborative Writing and Performance

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Published: 03/21/2025

Mourning the Ends: Collaborative Writing and Performance is an opening, a beginning, an attempt to rethink how we can be, think, and work together. This book, authored by a multitude, explores new methodologies of collaborative scholarship for the arts and humanities within the context of the various ecological, medical, military, and epistemic ends facing the[…]

Thinking with the Sleeping Body: A Feminist Reimagination of Human-Earth Relations

FORTHCOMING Fall 2025

In times of Earthly crises, habituated Euro-Western vocabularies and imaginaries—dichotomist and human-centric—need to be questioned, and radically different ones developed. Thinking with the Sleeping Body: A Feminist Reimagination of Human-Earth Relations employs the sleeping body as a theoretically informed and politically motivated figure to open novel imaginaries and relationalities—ones that are not based on wakeful[…]

Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State

Published: 10/27/2024

When it comes to the political, acts of redaction, erasure, and blacking out sit in awkward tension with the myth of transparent governance, borderless access, and frictionless communication. But should there be more than this brute juxtaposition of truth and secrecy? Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State brings together essays, poems, artwork,[…]

Power to Create, Power to Destroy: Toward Cultures of Resistance and Radical Social Change

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FORTHCOMING Fall 2025

Power to Create, Power to Destroy: Toward Cultures of Resistance and Radical Social Change is the fruit of the collective adventure of activists and researchers engaged in the global struggle against capitalism. The volume gathers reflections, experiences, and insights from multiple perspectives that share a common objective: a radical reorientation of societies toward meeting human[…]