My essay on Noah Purifoy, decaying books, and Black time (among other things) is out in a special issue of Criticism on "New Approaches to Critical Bibliography and the Material Text!!" This is a blockbuster issue, edited by @lmaruca and Kate Ozment --

https://t.co/WaPtb16Zt9

🚨 Amalgam 4 (Collapse) is now available for pre-order via https://t.co/esBjs9qWMX 🚨

🚨 Job Alert! My department is hiring a medievalist specializing in premodern critical race studies -- link below, deadline 10/1. I'm happy to chat about the department or institution more generally -- please RT and DM me with any questions!🚨 https://t.co/mBzXYgXrcy

🚨 Job Alert! My department is hiring a medievalist specializing in premodern critical race studies -- link below, deadline 10/1. I'm happy to chat about the department or institution more generally -- please RT and DM with any questions! 🚨 https://t.co/mBzXYgXrcy

I’m on vacation and it seems like this place is going south again…so re-upping this thread with more thanks to all always

Don’t look back, you can never look back

Just a few more days to sign up for this great event next Tuesday on critical bibliography, materiality, objecthood, etc., sponsored by @bibsocamer, Criticism, @lmaruca, and Kate Ozment -- join us!

**What's Critical About Critical Bibliography?** 1 week until the launch of this special issue of Criticism, edited by Lisa Maruca and Kate Ozment! 20 June 5pm BST, 12 noon ET

Can't wait to read our neighboring articles by @MeganPeiser @kawaiilovesarah @pbenzon, Amanda Stuckey, @rebeccaromney @rachael_scar @dlspratt et al., more than I can list here. See full TOC:

Out today, "Activist Bibliography as Abolitionist Pedagogy in the American Prison Writing Archive" co-authored with Catherine Koehler + Doran Larson @PrisonWitness in Criticism 64.3-4, a double issue edited by Kate Ozment and @lmaruca

our amazing editors have organized a roundtable launch event on Zoom with @bibsocamer on June 20, 2023, 12-1:15 pm ET / 9-10:15 am PT. Register and join us!!

..., the racial politics of junk, installation, and patina, and the time of the desert, with inspiration from @sprawlingtext on the archive and @_blackpoetics on J Dilla, among others. And if this great issue isn't enough...

all sorts of fantastic engagements with the politics of bibliography, inscription, the book as object, and more. My piece takes up the book's relation with assemblage and thing theory...

If you know, you know

So fired up to be in this and have it out on the world!!

Completing a belated fetch quest, I’m eager to share “Contingent Reading.” Walking a AAA game, an indie TTRPG, &an XR platform into the search bar—part of "Inscriptive Studies" ed. w/a phenomenal intro by @ritaraley & @pbenzon [Link: https://t.co/8yqi6IYVHI / DM for PDF]

Beyond the word/image binary, @pbenzon and @ritaraley advance a materialist grammatology for 21C art in "Inscriptive Studies: Toward a Field Articulation." Grateful to have contributed a piece on Kara Walker, Hank Willis Thomas, Claudia Rankine, and Glenn Ligon to it.

New media late pass

But this is the real thanks to everyone. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I’ve lost contact with a lot of you — I hope I see you at a conference, or somewhere down the line. Don’t be strangers.