Imprint: Uitgeverij
Published: 08/26/2013
An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown. For human observers, asemic writing may appear as lightning from a storm, a crack in the sidewalk,[…]
Published: 10/13/2013
Neomedievalisms are cultural practices that breathe a bouquet of premoderns as permanent rehearsals of coming events. Where medievalists may be prone to police the post-medieval weald for inauthentic medievalisms, neomedievalists embrace the articulation and mobilisation of metahistorical anachronisms. To the medievalist, medievalisms provide powerful indexes that reveal how post-medieval societies have variously imagined ‘little middle ages’ to[…]
Imprint: Peanut Books
Published: 05/26/2013
The Apartment of Tragic Appliances Listed as a Finalist for a 2013 Literary Lambda Award (Gay Poetry)! The Apartment of Tragic Appliances is a literal place in which a hapless, portable dishwasher “heats residue only to reimagine cleanliness as an art project,” a recalcitrant microwave neglects to heat, and a refrigerator dies an inconvenient, bulky[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 10/06/2013
Access interactive companion web-book here. Gaffe/Stutter is a dead letter to Deleuze’s Logic of Sense. It began as a series of diagrams, two-dimensional memory palaces that sketch the vectors of each chapter’s paradox; it became an elaborate plan for a web-based diagrammatic (r)e(n)dition of Logic of Sense, built on zoomable, annotatable high-resolution scans of these diagrams. Conceived[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 05/23/2013
A Sanctuary of Sounds is an aural rewriting of William Faulkner’s novel Sanctuary (1931). A polyphonic object. A garden — assemblage of blooms, of affects, of sounds, of meaning. An invitation to rethink appropriation ethically, aesthetically, and epistemologically. The appropriation of a body of work, of a physical body, of an idea, of data. The[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 08/26/2013
Access interactive companion web-book here. Italo Calvino rewrites Baudrillard’s America with a more global eye, as edited by Roland Barthes. In Divisible Cities takes Italo Calvino’s classic re-imagining of Venice, viewed in the mind’s eye from many different metaphysical angles, and projects it on to the world at large. Where the Italian saw his favorite[…]
Published: 07/18/2013
Repetitions / Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary [2 vols.] by Scott Abbott and Žarko Radaković (translation of portions of Repetitions by Ivana Djordjević; translation of Vampires by Alice Copple-Tošić) See Vol. 2: Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary HERE. In 1994, after following a character in Peter Handke’s novel Repetition into what is now Slovenia and after[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 12/24/2012
Ostranenie, the term for defamiliarization introduced by Russian writer and critic Victor Shklovsky, means, among other things, to see in strangeness. To see in strangeness is to participate in an illusion that is more real than real. It may be achieved by (re)presenting the surface as the substance, the play as the thing, or by[…]