FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
The Fire Trees studies the sense experience of the body and mind as it relates to wildness and nature—how do we embrace sensualism, pleasure, and joy as a daily practice in the company of our transience? And when we do, what new awareness might we embrace? How do the places we inhabit or occupy influence[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
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[…]
FORTHCOMING Fall 2026
What if intimacy wasn’t defined by identities, couples, or other congruencies, but by incongruity and the seemingly empty moments of anonymity and solitude? In this compelling final volume of his trilogy on “the intimacy of the Outside,” John Paul Ricco articulates the aesthetics and ethics of finitude, exploring how the ordinary limits of our bodies,[…]
FORTHCOMING Spring 2026
The Specter of AIDS is a transdisciplinary text originally written in 1980s Brasil in a time of pandemic emergency. It situates how HIV/AIDS reconfigured intimacy, sexuality, and power while also providing a minoritarian theory of desire lived by dissident sexualities in 1980s Latin America. Perlongher’s paper exposes a new barometer of life undergirded by medico-scientific[…]
FORTHCOMING Winter 2026
My 1980s Gayboy Playlist centers on eight musical works that impacted the author’s sexual and musical awakening as a troubled gay adolescent, including pieces by Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Beethoven, Anton Bruckner, Alban Berg, Prince, Kurt Cobain, and Tom Petty. Preferring Alban Berg over Van Halen in the 1980s was a serious aberration in the small Midwestern town[…]
Published: 11/27/2024
What happens when we take the joke of “lesbian processing” seriously as a research method? Heavy Processing does just this, by tracing the multi-directional genealogies and vast affinities of processing-heavy methods as innovations in information technologies (such as operating systems, central processing units, network designs). Part methods handbook, manifesto, and survival guide, this book opens[…]
Imprint: MAI: Feminism and Culture
FORTHCOMING Summer 2025
Can we think of an ethics that originates in corporeality, and not in codified or symbolic systems? In Corporeal Aesth/ethics, the body resurfaces as a central category of Bracha L. Ettinger’s theory and art, as well as an interpretive key that allows us to assume ethical responsibility for an Other who is not abstract, or[…]
Published: 02/29/2024
Taking its cues from the New Narrative writing movement, like a dog considers how sexual identity is morphed, hidden, and denied by cultural forces like film, pornography, rape culture, and sexual semiotics. The speaker of like a dog writes about her sexuality, sexual trauma, and relationships in the epistolary form to explore how the personal[…]