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Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College THE RUINS OF SOLITUDE forthcoming @punctum_books #openaccess she/her/they

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Smells like tween spirit, indeed. Can't believe a couple of scholars started a press and, somehow, it worked. Because of authors and their crazy-brilliant work. & because of the libraries who fund us. & because of our amazing staff. Keep the #OpenAccess books flowing: SUBSCRIBE!
punctum 🌈 books@punctum_books8 Apr 2025
STILL SMELLS LIKE TWEEN SPIRIT! punctum books is 14! Founded on April 1, 2011, we’ve been fighting for the weird, queer & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since. Help us celebrate 🥳🎉🍾 by becoming a subscriber & send books around the world. punctumbooks.com/support/
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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. buff.ly/3C8qJqc
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.

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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Calling all champions of un/scholarly publishing! Join @punctum_books as a supporting subscriber and help us 'keep it weird.' For just $10 a month, you can contribute to our mission of providing FREE books. Your support means the world. Join us: punctumbooks.com/support/ #Gratitude
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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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Yoon@nicoscosc11 Jan 2025
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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FREE BOOKS! #mla26 #OpenAccess 👇👇👇
punctum 🌈 books@punctum_books12 Jan 2025
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!
AF Post
@AFpost11 Jan 2025
Meta’s Zuckerberg says most companies need more “masculine energy” and have been neutered by “feminine energy.” Follow: @AFpost
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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!
punctum 🌈 books@punctum_books10 Jan 2025
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. buff.ly/3BwdKyr
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.

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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Rafael Walker@raf_walk10 Dec 2024
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. azq.arizona.edu/call-papers-…
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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 tinyurl.com/yva2yjkf
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My faculty colleagues and I have been banned from Widener Library for two weeks to punish us for reading quietly while displaying quotations from the Library's statement of values
The Harvard Crimson
@thecrimson17 Oct 2024
Roughly 25 Harvard professors conducted a silent study-in at Widener Library on Wednesday to protest the library’s decision to temporarily ban pro-Palestine students who held a similar demonstration last month. @tillyrobin and @neilhshah15 report. thecrimson.com/article/2024/…

Harvard Faculty Hold Widener Library ‘Study-In’ to Protest Student Activist Bans

Harvard Faculty Hold Widener Library ‘Study-In’ to Protest Student Activist Bans

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punctum author in the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Museum. Huzzah! 🎉
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Just got out of a brilliant panel at @ASAP_artsNOW with @_super_bass, Nasia Anam, and @DianaFilarski on "Mobility is not a luxury." Made me think a lot about risk, ambivalence, & opacity in the ellipses of transit. A reminder to everyone to go to 9am panels! Great work is there!
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