Happy BIRTHDAY to PUNCTUM!. WE'RE 14! punctum books, a scholar-led & queer-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since. Help us celebrate 🎉🥳🍾by becoming a subscriber!

THREE reading & performance events in NYC to celebrate @LynneSachs1 & Lizzie Olesker's HAND BOOK: A Manual on Performance, Process & the Labor of Laundry:. SEP. 8: Unnameable Books.SEP. 13: MOMA, PS1.SEP. 28: Torn Page. DOWNLOAD #OpenAccess book here:

Join millions who have switched to Grok.

RT @mhdksafa: Palestine is the most well-documented genocide in history, yet the most denied.

"Pathways" to #OpenAccess has always been a delaying tactic. Death by a million incremental incrementals. Are we there yet? Did we get there yet? DID we? Like, is it where you end up, or how you got there, that matters? Journey? Destination? Chicken, egg, money money money.

Found in dumpling soups & remembered from childhood, ants trail through the “industry of survival,” exploring interfaces of love, ambition & strategy. PUBLISHED #OpenAccess: THE ANTS: showing us the tenuous wilderness between exoskeleton & endoskeleton!.

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RT @Mo7ammed_jawad6: This might be our last picture…. If we are martyred, we are not just numbers; we are worlds of our own, with dreams an….

"With deadpan humor and the Surrealist’s combination of clarity and incongruity, Sawako Nakayasu’s book of prose poems, THE ANTS, makes a tiny insect the center of the world.". Published #OpenAccess & FREE to download: Special section on bilingual ants!

4/ Finally, David Brennan's A CYBORG'S FATHER: Misreading Donna Haraway, about his daughter's life as a "cyborg," dependent as she is on machines to live & about his desire to make himself inessential. FREE #OpenAccess download here: #disability #illness

3/ Next we have Robert Lieb's EXOANTHROPOLOGY: Dialogues with AI, a collection of Platonic dialogues with an AI hive mind & also with a philosophy-specific AI persona named Kermit. FREE #OpenAccess download here: #ArtificialIntelligence #computing

2/ First up is Matt Tomlinson's SPEAKING WITH THE DEAD: An Ethnography of Extrahuman Experience, about his experiences as a cultural anthropologist learning to be a spiritual #medium. Who can speak with the dead?. FREE #OpenAccess download here:

🧵In celebration of the publication of Adam Staley Groves's new book on Wallace Stevens's possible encounters with UFOs & extrahuman poetics --. FREE #OpenAccess download here: -- we're featuring other EXTRAHUMAN titles in our catalogue. #UFOs #posthuman

Is it possible that Wallace Stevens experienced significant "missing time"? That he was abducted by aliens? 👽 And is his poetry evidence of contact with extrahuman intelligences?. PUBLISHED #OpenAccess: Adam Staley Groves's THE POET AS EXPERIENCER 🥳🛸🪐.

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This is a super-cool project. #AccessibilityForAll.

RT @EileenAJoy: New #OpenAccess book drop from @punctum_books: . What if the entire ouevre of the poet Wallace Stevens was evidence of his….

Challenging Stevens scholarship & our understanding of poetics, Groves presents Stevens’s oeuvre as a coded testimony of contact with nonhuman intelligence (#UFOs). PUBLISHED #OpenAccess: THE POET AS EXPERIENCER: Wallace Stevens & Nonhuman Intelligence.

"Black America is under assault by a serial predator, and nothing is stopping him or even seriously rebuking his behavior and rhetoric.". ~ Oliver Willis.

PIXELLATE THIS!. 780 pages of the HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES & #OpenAccess to boot, which means FREE to download!. This book reveals how a field gets made & who gets to decide & who and what is repelled. This is also a blueprint for change. #gaming.

“Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Full Military Takeover of Gaza”. The hell of bare life & death in Gaza will now get worse & the world watches while governments do nothing to stop this. This is pure hell, cruel & inhumane. History teaches nothing.

Do you feel like a fraud as a publisher, @tandfonline? Do you feel authors overestimate your abilities? Do you have imposter syndrome?. There are good reasons for this. First, acknowledge your feelings: you & your services do suck. Talk to your friends, like Wiley. They get it.