KJ Cerankowski’s Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming Selected in Entropy’s Best of 2020–2021 Non-Fiction List
Combining memoir, lyrical essay, and cultural criticism, KJ Cerankowski’s Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming stitches together an embodied history of trauma and its ongoing impacts on the lived realities of trans, queer, and other marginalized subjects. Suture is a conjuration, a patchwork knitting of ghost stories attending to the wound as its own archive. It is a journey through many “transitions”: of gender; through illness and chronic pain; from childhood to adulthood and back again; of psyche and form in the wake of abuse and through the work of healing; and of the self, becoming in and through the ongoingness of settler colonial violence and its attendant subjugations of diverse forms of life.
Gary T. Marx Reviews Anon Collective’s Book of Anonymity
This luxuriantly interdisciplinary, highly original, provocative, deeply reflective, open access volume is most welcome! It should be in the library of anyone concerned with the sociology of information and communication.
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei on Bruce Nauman’s Retrospective in the Stedelijk Museum
[T]he curatorial drive behind the exhibition was to tease a suggestion of a deeper relation between pandemic times and Nauman’s work, but then to withhold any further elaboration, to deemphasize the queer nature of many of Nauman’s works – in fact, to actively unqueer them by means of a specific curatorial discourse.
Read punctum director Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei's essay, "Straight Innocence," a review of the recent restrospective exhibition of artworks by Bruce Nauman at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam: https://stedelijkstudies.com/straight-innocence-essay/
Adam Bobek Interviews Graham Harman
Skirmishes provides an excellent introduction to the hottest debates in Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology, a speculative style of philosophy long foreclosed by the biases of mainstream continental thought, but which has turned in recent years into one of the most encompassing philosophies of our time, with a major impact on the arts, humanities, and architecture
"Two artists, Wu Tsang and Adam Pendleton, share a commitment to inter-generational encounter as queer art, taking up vast atria as a matter of intimacy"
Doug Dibbern Excerpts His Cinema’s Doppelgängers in Magazine Hotel
“a history of the movies written from an alternative unfolding of historical time—a world in which neither the Bolsheviks nor the Nazis came to power, and thus a world in which Sergei EISENSTEIN never made movies and German filmmakers like Fritz LANG never fled to Hollywood, a world in which the talkies were invented in 1936 rather than 1927, in which the French New Wave critics didn’t become filmmakers, and in which Hitchcock never came to Hollywood”
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