Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College THE RUINS OF SOLITUDE forthcoming @punctum_books #openaccess she/her/they
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I am thrilled to announce that my book, The Ruins of Solitude: Maternity at the Limits of Academic Discourse, is under contract @punctum_books
BORG.DIEM is published (@InclDisability), and it is beautiful! Check it out and listen to @JillianWeise talk about the dictionary on Many Academies ojs.scholarsportal.info/onta…
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To quote: “I have never taken that distance from the real, which would have allowed me to move possessively towards it.”
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One of their fascinating arguments is that, for all three artists, their opacity is not a performance of the difficulty of their work so much as a refusal to play the authoritative role of ‘artist as one who reveals’.
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DON'T MISS IT! Book launch for Heavy Processing on January 23rd at 7 pm at Another Story Bookshop. See you there!
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World," which joins five thinkers from different geographies and disciplines—Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, Cristina Rivera Garza—who propose new ways of being.
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ALT Cover of Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape, surrounded by blue, that is slightly offset in the middle. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.
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Nothing is more admirable than completely eviscerating a form at the outset, while staking meaning on the expectation of that form still holding meaning, which is to say postscripts should always be written on envelopes or skirts.
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Foucault in a 1982 interview (in English):
“You see, I hate to say it, but it’s true that I am not a really good academic. For me intellectual work is related to what you could call aestheticism, meaning transforming yourself. … I know that knowledge can transform us, [+]
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Last day at #mla25: ALL punctum books free until 1:00pm! #OpenAccess Keep it weird in academic publishing.
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May his progeny grow up filled with loathing and disgust for him. May the planet’s curses bind together to destroy his empire. May we live to see it and laugh. Also, may he have 7 months of diarrhea! Just for kicks!
Meta’s Zuckerberg says most companies need more “masculine energy” and have been neutered by “feminine energy.”
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ALL BOOKS + t-shirts & tote bags FREE at our booth at #mla25! 9am to 1pm, one per person. Keep it weird in academic publishing. #OpenAccess #books
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Having a blast 💥 at #mla25!
Hanging with more punctum authors & editors at the #mla25 conference in New Orleans: Liza Blake, Anna Klosowska, and Katina Rogers. #OpenAccess #books
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New on the blog: Gil Anidjar and Lette Bragg in dialogue about their new monographs and maternity at the limits in "Keeping the World: On the Maternal Conversation." Read it here on the Diacritics blog: diacriticsjournal.com/keepin…
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In "The Time beneath the Concrete," Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism in #Palestine is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Read the introduction for free now.
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ALT Cover of The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony by Nasser Abourahme. Cover is blue and features an image of an art installation featuring six human figures in concrete. There is some Arabic text above them on the right. The title is in white at the top of the design, the subtitle beneath that in red, and the author name at the bottom in white.
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Good morning! I know you want to give my wife a birthday present indiegogo.com/projects/help-…
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Spread the word! @proffwolff and I have extended the deadline for submissions for our special issue on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century for Arizona Quarterly. New date is Jan. 2nd.
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punctum was not founded to fight big commercial publishers nor to champion open access. Our mission was to secure spaces of radical hospitality against structures & systems of academic privilege.
The Empty Signification of Academy-Owned Publishing
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Thanks @idlebat for the photo and thanks @punctum_books for publishing Ruins so it could reach windows