FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
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[…]
FORTHCOMING Fall 2025
In Frantz Fanon’s eyes, decolonization “sets out to change the order of the world.” Is that even possible today? If it is in any sense possible in our times, what would this involve: what kind of changes? a decolonial manual is an adventure in thinking through these questions with a hopeful attention on meaningful, enworlded[…]
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[…]
Imprint: Advanced Methods
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[…]
Published: 11/09/2023
The Covid-19 pandemic has been expressed in various ways through visuality and performance, and some of its more nuanced cultural implications have taken place in a realm that goes beyond words. Through the exploration of the visual culture produced during and in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, The Pandemic Visual Regime: Visuality and Performativity in[…]
Published: 10/19/2023
Widening Scripts: Cultivating Feminist Care in Academic Labor is addressed to scholars, educators, and students devoted to the struggle against precarity, atomization, and the commodification of knowledge. Through shared reading, discussion, and reflection, and gathered around a shared interest in feminist theory and politics, the authors discovered a model of care within academia that helped[…]
Published: 09/12/2023
The Way Things Go contains a mix of poetry, art writing, and life writing about anticipatory grief, or mourning someone or something before it’s gone. Each successive chapter in the book decreases in length by exactly one sentence, from a 71-sentence-long opening chapter, to a 70-sentence-long second chapter, to 69 sentences, 68 sentences, and so[…]
Published: 09/07/2023
Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-matter tells the story of small matter such as bacteria, coral, fungi, lichen, pollen, protozoa, and viruses. With short entries that are organized like a herbarium or similar specimen collection, the book is a “microbium”—both the term for a single microbe and a play on “microbiome.” As such, Microbium makes[…]