Imprint: Brainstorm Books
Published: 06/25/2026
What should I do? What is the right thing to do? What do I do when I don’t know what to do? The difficulty in answering these questions does not come from a lack of knowledge but a deeper problem that requires us to look inward (and outward). Inner Conflicts is meant to be read[…]
FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
M.H. Bowker’s Walls is a contemplative essay that is sometimes playful and sometimes grave. At first blush, its subject matter would appear simple. Walls considers (1) the psychic meaning of walls and (2) the meaning of psychic walls. It turns out that these two subjects are intimately and interestingly related, such that meditating on one[…]
Imprint: Brainstorm Books
FORTHCOMING Summer 2027
If every article is a word and every outfit a statement, then the psychoanalyst is never silent. Much is made of clothes and style by psychoanalysis, but little is said of how psychoanalysts style themselves. Fashion inundates the world with sexual concern, yet psychoanalysis is … a bit repressed on the practitioners’ manners of dress.[…]
Imprint: Brainstorm Books
Published: 02/27/2026
Have you ever wondered what makes you wake up in the morning? Why not just lay down, stay, and eventually disappear? What is the wanting, the energy, and the grace of liveliness? Desire is at the core of liveliness, and this book explains why it is so. Desire is much more than a mere appendix[…]
Imprint: MAI: Feminism and Culture
Published: 02/03/2026
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[…]
Imprint: Brainstorm Books
Published: 01/20/2026
Focusing on the changing image of the West Coast through such varied social and cultural artifacts as bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, Marilyn Monroe, milk-carton images of missing children, orgies, Mickey Mouse, zombies, teenage slang, shock therapy, and surf music, The Case of California offers a dizzying psycho-history of the twentieth century as crystallized in[…]
Imprint: Risking Education
FORTHCOMING Winter 2027
“I think of myself as less of a judge and more of a teacher.” So said the Queen of Drag, RuPaul Andre Charles, on the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race—the Emmy Award-winning reality show competition that cemented RuPaul’s status as the most influential drag queen in the world. Via her international and still-expanding Drag[…]
Imprint: MAI: Feminism and Culture
FORTHCOMING Winter 2026
What do images have to do with the stubborn perception that women are naturally and fundamentally mothers? How can artwork aligned with feminism teach us to see women differently? In Writing in the Kitchen with Martha Rosler and Carrie Mae Weems: From Reproductive Labor to the Affective Labor of the Image, Kimberly Lamm explores these[…]