Imprint: Dead Letter Office
FORTHCOMING Spring 2026
The Xeno-Monde: Worlds of Strangers emerges as a response and challenge to the history of “being” in philosophy. The discourse of “being” and “being” in a world is an ancient one, to which Martin Heidegger returns in his early lectures and writings. Indeed, existential philosophy, if it has foundations at all, emerges as a way[…]
FORTHCOMING Fall 2025
What do a pudgy, orange autocrat, and pumped-up men in tights have in common? The connections, while profound, all rest on specific strategies employed by World Wrestling Entertainment during the early 2000s (known as WWE’s “Attitude Era”) when Donald Trump was centrally involved with the promotion of WWE. These are: (1) universally breaking kayfabe, the[…]
FORTHCOMING Summer 2025
In The Poet as Experiencer: Wallace Stevens and Nonhuman Intelligence, Adam Staley Groves approaches Stevens, not merely as poet–thinker but rather as experiencer and theorist of what is today called “the phenomenon” (UFOs). Challenging both Stevens scholarship and our broader understanding of poetic consciousness, the book presents a radical appraisal of Stevens’s oeuvre as an[…]
Published: 03/17/2022
The critical links and dependencies between language and thought formed a major new exploration of twentieth-century philosophy. Languages nuance our ideas and perceptions. From various angles and in different ways, Heidegger, Derrida, and Wittgenstein forged new ways of understanding the relationship between our views of the external world and our culturally and linguistically pre-determined modes[…]
Published: 04/14/2022
In the early twentieth century, Uchiyama Gudō, Seno’o Girō, Lin Qiuwu, and others advocated a Buddhism that was radical in two respects. Firstly, they adopted a more or less naturalist stance with respect to Buddhist doctrine and related matters, rejecting karma or other supernatural beliefs. And secondly, they held political and economic views that were[…]
Published: 11/17/2020
One of the fifty most influential living philosophers, a “self-promoting charlatan” (Brian Leiter), and the orchestrator of an “online orgy of stupidity” (Ray Brassier). In Skirmishes: With Friends, Enemies, and Neutrals, Graham Harman responds with flair and wit to some of his best-known critics and fellow travelers. Pulling no punches, Harman gives a masterclass in[…]
Imprint: Brainstorm Books
Published: 06/25/2020
Critique of Fantasy, Vol. 1: Between a Crypt and a Datemark addresses both the style or genre of fantasy and the mental faculty, long the hot property of philosophical ethics. Freud passed it along in his 1907 essay on the poetics of daydreaming when he addressed omnipotent wish fantasy as the source and resource of[…]
Published: 11/15/2019
Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity radically claimed that the sexed body is a fallacy, discursively constructed by the performance of gender. A.W. Strouse has undertaken to rewrite Butler’s classic tome into an octosyllabic poem. Inspired by the rhyming encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Strouse transforms each of Butler’s sentences[…]