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New from KEEP IT DIRTY, vol. a., "Filth":

"The Iconography of Au******ic Asphyxiation: From Fantasmatic Fe**sh to Forensic Fact" by Lisa Downing and Dany Nobus

The Iconography of Au******ic Asphyxiation | KEEP IT DIRTY       I. Images Bearing Witness     It is to psychiatric and forensic experts that society allots the task of interpreting the nature and function of some of the most intimate and complex of human experiences, among them manifestations of s*xuality and conditions of death. The interface between...

Statement from the Directors of Punctum Books —

In response to our community, the Call for Papers (CFP), , is now open for annotation. I want to thank Anna Waymack & Diane Watt, esp. for challenging me in ways that were caring & productive. Let’s model a feminist critical practice together. we are inviting the community to write with, over, for, against (etc.) any & all portions of the CFP: no one at punctum will intervene, censor or talk back. The CFP will be archived publicly. Forever.

These annotations will represent a collective way of facing, working through, and hopefully repairing the kind of trauma that the field of early medieval studies has caused for so many years, and which this CFP has also triggered in our community of scholars and learners for whom we care deeply and with whom we want to model a better, more inclusive, and more generously capacious academic community-to-come. We want to model, further, a feminist critical practice in which the sorts of “argumentation” so prevalent in toxic masculine culture will not predominate. Eileen Joy, who wrote the CFP, will not “disappear” any of her words, and will be attentive, without interruption or pushback, to all annotations.

In the tradition of the medieval book, all annotations, along with the CFP, will stand as a public record of an academic community’s productively rowdy dissensus, and the page will be archived into perpetuity with no revisions whatsoever to anyone’s words: a cacophony, if you will, of a field in crisis, but in which everyone strives to really hear and respect each other’s feelings, experiences, trauma, and intellectual practices. The annotated webpage will become part of the permanent archive of punctum, always available for the scholars of the future, as opposed to disappearing into the ether of ephemeral social media owned by those who do not share our values nor care for us.

Let’s build together a legible cacophony of a field in crisis, where everyone strives to hear & respect each other’s feelings, experiences, trauma & intellectual practices on a non-profit community-led platform where we won’t be disappeared into the ether of social media.

CFP: Defenestrating Frantzen: A Fistschrift · punctum books NOTE (added Jan 11, 2020): This CFP, like any punctum books pub, is open for annotation. After signing up for a PubPub account (upper right corner), select any text and an annotation window will appear. These annotations will represent a collective way of facing, working through, and hopefully repai...

The Year in Review for Punctum Books titles published in 2019! Check out all the brilliant authors who published books with Punctum last year, and in to boot!

Biophilia, Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble” in rhyming octosyllabic couplets, avant-garde photography (the writing of Osamu Kanemura in a dual-language Japanese-English edition), liquid life and non-linear materiality, the museum of non-humanity, post-memes, the “terrain vague” of Beirut, metagestures, critical race theory and the misappropriation of antiracist work, “damaged” reflections on Turkey (translated from Turkish), TV anthropology, how we read, Enrique Dussel’s pedagogics of liberation (first translation into English!), suicidal suburban teenagers and holy parrots, the poetics and cultural genealogy of the computer code for the Apollo 11 moon landing, noise studies meets the Anthropocene, Nubian studies, AngloSaxon(ist) pasts and postSaxon futures, and MORE!

https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/2019books

And if you think it’s amazing that we published all of these books in 2019 , without charging authors a single dime to do so, consider dropping a dime on Punctum by becoming a patron of the press for as little as $10/month. When you do so, you will be supporting a scholar-led, community-owned, public mission-driven, non-profit, and importantly *independent* press that fosters and curates work that likely would not find a welcoming harbor with more traditional academic publishers. Help us to continue this good work and to add more WEIRD work, and a more diverse set of minds and voices, to the Public Commons.

Punctum Publications of 2019 · punctum books Our sincere thanks to all of our authors, readers, friends, and collaborators for making this year possible. And from all of us at punctum books, we wish you a book-filled new year!

Merry 🎉🥳🎁🧚‍♀️🍾 Eve from all of us at punctum ! So much for all of our authors, readers & our & & & . We’ve had this year, haven’t we? And next year is looking pretty good too! Thanks to ALL OF . Let’s keep this going ‘til it’s #2029.

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We have rarely published a book so brim-full of an exuberant affection for the liveliness of all living ( ) things & which refuses the reductionist, brute-materialist mechanical models of life. LIQUID LIFE: On Non-Linear Materiality, by Rachel Armstrong, published this week in as a co-publication of punctum and the Center for Transformative Media, Parsons School of Design, is a must-read for our ecologically troubled times (& at 600 gorgeous pages, no less!).

This book is a : an uncategorisiable treatise and synthesis of text, quotations, provocations, images, conceptual slippages, voices, ideas, writing styles, events, and narratives.

The book's loose body plan responds to its (liquid, watery, fluid, vicuous) contexts where sections support, contradict & hybridise each other. An orchestrated cacophony, an project, a Babel in the making, it seeks to maintain its diplomatic coherence despite everything.



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VIVE la Open Access and ScholarLed, Community-led Publishing!

It's kind of a big deal.

Last week, on behalf of Punctum Books, Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei signed & delivered our copy of the consortial agreement with Coventry University; Birkbeck College, University of London; Trinity College, Cambridge; the Regents of the University of California; Loughborough University; Open Book Publishers, Directory of Open Access Books (Netherlands), and Jisc (UK) for a 3-year collaborative project on Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs dreamed up by the presses of ScholarLed (Mattering Press, meson press, Open Book Publishers, Open Humanities Press, and Punctum Books), generously funded for £3 million by Research England and the Arcadia Fund (with additional contributions from the partners totalling approximately £500,000)!

Vive la Open Access and Scholar-led, Community-owned Infrastructure for Open Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences!

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Some pix from last week, , where Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Dan Rudmann & Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy, along with the crew of the Coko Foundation (Adam Hyde and Alison McGonagle-O'Connell) and the Editoria Publishing Community (MPublishing, UC Press, California Digital Library, UCSB Library, punctum books, Fulcrum, Minnesota, ATLA, Paged.js, and the French Court of the Comptroller: yes, really) celebrated 2 days of strategic planning for the EditoriaPub Community!

We missed you, Sherri L. Barnes!

Punctum Books has a new logo!

And we have a new partnership with MIT’s Knowledge Futures Group: visit our new COMMS site built on the Knowledge Futures Group’s PubPub platform to find out about our new releases, what readers and reviewers are saying about our books, and to read regular posts by our directors: myself, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, and Dan Rudmann!



https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org

Vive la Open Access & Public Knowledge.

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