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A New Level of Dante's Hell for Malignant Narcissists
(Posted 10/25/20)

Spring 2020: Leviathan & the Virus (posted 4/20)

Winter 2019 (posted 12/19)

Fall 2019: Intelligence, Stupidity, Thirst (posted 9/19)

Books

Magic, Science, Religion. Brill, Experimental Practices Series, 2018.

(NB: this link takes you to an interactive set of "Assertions, Principles and Pronouncements" from the book; the whole book is available for sale from Brill.  This is the only work not available for free on this site.)

Poetics as a Theory of Everything, Poetics Lab Books, 2015.

Where God Comes From: Reflections on Science, Systems and the Sublime;
Zer0 Books, 2012 (cover art by Ira Livingston, design by Danielle Skorzanka)

PDF 1: Ch 1-3 | PDF 2: Ch 4-5

Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics 
University of Illinois Press, 2006

PDF 1 (Ch 1-9) | PDF 2 (Ch 10-15) | PDF 3 (Ch 16-22)

Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity;
U. of Minnesota Press (Theory Out of Bounds Series); 1997.

PDF 1: Ch 1-2 | PDF 2: Ch 3 | PDF 3: Ch 4-5 | PDF 4: Ch 6

Articles

"An Emendation to Erdman’s Edition of Blake’s ‘Auguries of Innocence." Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press, 2016. 

"Erotic Particularity, Metacognition, Survival: Of Samuel Delany," Jacket2 (online journal), 2014.

"Chaos and Complexity Theory." The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. New York and London: Routledge, 2011.

"Complex Visuality: The Radical Middleground." Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second Order Systems Theory. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009

"Ce que signifie être un théoricien queer?" Périphéries. 2003

"Indiscretions: of body, gender, technology." In Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life, Eds. Calvert, J. and Terry, M. New York and London: Routledge, 1997.

Preface and Introduction to Posthuman Bodies (with Jack Halberstam). Edited by Ira Livingston and Jack Halberstam. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Other Work

Body Signs: Deviance, Difference, and Eugenics. Exhibition catalogue, with Joseph Grigely and Nicholas Mirzeoff. Washington Project for the Arts, 1993.

Virgil, 1990.

visual art
Finished DrawingsMarginaliaEdited MarginaliaPratt MarginaliaDrawings with Blank SpacesPortraits/Self PortraitsDeath DriveAlterations, Copies, CollaborationsLandscapes/Interiors/SpacesLife DrawingPoetics Book Design Process
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