Published: 09/01/2022
During the Paris pandemic confinement period of 2020, with the dread of viral death in the air, artist Joseph Nechvatal finished his second book of poetry, titled Styling Sagaciousness: Oh Great No! The mythopoeic mélange of Styling Sagaciousness is intended as a complicated forensic fairy-tale, suitable for Nô theater, which keeps slipping in and out[…]
Published: 01/13/2022
In the thirteenth century, Dogen brought Zen to Japan. His tradition flourishes there still today and now has taken root across the world. Abruptly Dogen presents some of his pithy writings—startling, shifting, funny, spilling out in every direction. These writings come from all seventy-five chapters of his masterwork, the Eye of Real Dharma (Shōbōgenzō 正法眼藏),[…]
Imprint: Uitgeverij
Published: 04/21/2022
Broken Theory is a jettisoned collection of fragmentary writing, collected and collaged by new media artist, writer, musician, and theorist Alan Sondheim. Folding theoretical musings, text experiments, and personal confessions into a single textual flow, it examines the somatic foundations of philosophical theory and theorizing, discussing their relationships to the writer and body, and to[…]
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[…]
Imprint: 3Ecologies Books
Published: 07/07/2022
Pitch and Revelation is the first book-length study of the poetry, prose, and dramatic literature of the African American poet Jay Wright (b. 1934). The authors premise their reading on joy as a foundational philosophical concept. In this, they follow Spinoza, who understood joy as an affect necessary for the construction of an intellectual love[…]
Imprint: Uitgeverij
Published: 09/02/2021
((( is conceived of not only as a poetry collection and an artist book, but also as a series of actions, a sculpture, an installation, a living object, and a verbal ecosystem. The poetic voyage of (((, recounted in a concrete if mysteriously abstract, yet bodily language, is presented here in a trilingual English–Italian–French edition.[…]
Published: 09/30/2021
I want to hate more and more graphically the devastation of the concepts that now collapse into resentful anxiety about borders and the impoverished people who die on the wrong sides of them, and I want the sickness to be historical, a lesson learned in the nerves from the intricate history in which the desire[…]
Published: 03/25/2021
This is Li Bo. You may also know him as Li Po 李白 (701–62), the great poet of Tang China, master of swoop and soar, wanderer, man of wine, so enamored of the moon that he tried to embrace her reflection in the river, fell from his boat and drowned. Favorite of the Emperor—but only[…]