Long time no post, Comrades. Welcome back. It has been a year (or so) since I last posted, and I’ll write more about that in the weeks to come, but for now: hello again. In this reboot, I’ve decided to use this newsletter-ish to share work in progress. One reason for this is that I’d like to make little offerings to whomever would like to … Continue reading History from Nowhere
Welcome to the second installment of the weird and not-at-all-even-semi-regular newsletter of Nappiness! This summer has already been a doozy, and things are happening, and all indications seem to be that they will keep happening. Without further ado… I’m still reading some things. Roy Christopher invited me to contribute to his Summer Reading List for the year (thanks, Roy!), and it came out last week. … Continue reading Big Snacky and the Ghosts of Beginnings
Welcome to the first issue of what I hope will be a regular newsletter! (The photo above is my cat Deke in the process of helping this morning as I type this.) The idea is to share work in progress, motivate a regular writing practice, and let y’all know what I’m thinking about so that you can get in touch if you’re interested while the … Continue reading Welcome to the newsletter!
It’s been a minute! After a long hiatus of getting settled in my new digs, finishing up some things, and, well, a pandemic…I’m back to the site with some updates and plans. This summer, I’ll be updating the site and adding some new elements, some new work, and more regular check-ins. The new format should make it easier to find syllabi, publications, and events. I’ll … Continue reading New look, new book: time for a reboot!
I’ll deliver my Provost’s Inaugural Lecture at Pitt in just a little over a week, and I’ll be talking about the book manuscript that I’m editing and getting ready to send out. Come join us if you’re in town! There will be snacks! xo Continue reading Inaugural Lecture Feb 6 2020
Happy Friday, y’all! Here’s the information for an upcoming roundtable at Harvard on March 19 2020 that might be of interest to folks who will be headed to the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in Boston. It’ll be some Asia-language-science-translation goodness. My contribution will be related to Illegible Cities, my forthcoming book (with Oxford U Press) on translation to and from (mostly) non-European languages … Continue reading Asia in the History of Science: A Convo
Carrie and I are super excited that Uninvited: Talking Back to Plato will be coming out with McGill-Queen’s University Press in May 2020. (This is a book we love in which we respond to and reimagine Plato’s Symposium in a hybrid poetry/fiction format. You’ll find our own versions of the speeches of the text – of Phaedrus, of Aristophanes, of Diotima, etc – as inspired … Continue reading Uninvited now available for pre-order!
Now out in Geist 111: a clutch of poems inspired by the “Socrates Questions Agathon” speech in Plato’s Symposium. You can read the poems here. Versions will be included in Uninvited: Talking Back To Plato (forthcoming as a book! stay tuned…), a collaborative project with Carrie Jenkins that you can read about in a little piece we wrote for The Philosophers’ Magazine. Enjoy! Continue reading Sappho Questions Medusa: Poems
I’m so delighted to share the news that Dominic Pettman‘s and my book of short stories (inspired by Vilém Flusser’s work on the theory of gesture) is now available! Head on over to the Punctum Press site, where you can download a free ebook or link over to buy a paper copy. I love these stories so much. We’re plotting a book launch in NYC … Continue reading Metagestures: A Book!
Long time no post! I’ve been hibernating while on leave, but there’s so much to tell and leave is over and I’ll be posting a bunch in the weeks to come. First off, here are the first drafty bits of what seems to be taking shape as a kind of weird magical lifestyle guide/cookbook, now available at The Invisible College. Also check out Carrie Jenkins’s … Continue reading Glass, and Light, and Cotton, and Celery: Bits of a new lifestyle guide/cookbook
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