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Our Grateful Dead
Vinciane Despret’s unique storytelling, woven with ethnography and family history, assembles accounts of those living their daily lives with their...
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The Dance of the Arabian Babbler
A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory.
How do humans study the complex worlds of animals...
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On Not Dying
An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
On Not Dying is an anthropological, historical, and philosophical exploration of...
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Art and Cosmotechnics
In light of current discourses on AI and robotics, what do the various experiences of art contribute to the rethinking of technology...
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Bleak Joys
Bleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes—from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation—as...
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Homesickness
In the Anthropocene, as climate change renders environments less stable, the human desire for place underscores the weakness of the individual in the...
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Beyond the Meme
How do cultures change? In recent decades, the concept of the meme, posited as a basic unit of culture analogous to the gene, has been central to...
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From Montaigne to Montaigne
In January 1937, between the two ethnographic trips he would describe in Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave a talk to the Confédération...
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Scenarios III
“Herzog doesn’t write traditional scripts,” Film International remarked of the master filmmaker’s Scenarios I and II. “Instead, he writes...
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South American Journals
When Allen Ginsberg went to South America in 1960, ostensibly to attend a literary conference, he had a different kind of trip in mind. This would be...
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Black Bourgeois
At a moment in U.S. history with repeated reminders of the vulnerability of African Americans to state and extralegal violence, Black Bourgeois is...
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How Not to Make a Human
Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal...
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Asemic: The Art of Writing
In recent years, asemic writing—writing without language—has exploded in popularity, with anthologies, a large-scale art exhibition, and...
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The Truth Is Always Grey
Why did many of the twentieth century’s best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning?...
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A Capsule Aesthetic
In A Capsule Aesthetic, Kate Mondloch examines how new media installation art intervenes in the fields of technoscience and new materialism, showing...
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Curated Decay: Heritage beyond Saving
A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay
Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to Cold War...
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Brouhaha: Worlds of the Contemporary
Within the hypermediated age where knowledge production is decentered and horizontal, the experience of lived time has become a concordance of...
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Foucault on Painting
Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his earliest publications, yet this aspect of his thought is...
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Manifestly Haraway
Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway\u2019s \u201cCyborg Manifesto\u201d is even more...
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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?
“You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on...
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The Perversity of Things
Grant Wythoff presents a wide array of texts by famed writer, publisher, and inventor Hugo Gernsback that were foundational both for science fiction...
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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining...
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Architecture’s Historical Turn
Examines the origins and influence of postmodernist thought in architectural theory
Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of...
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