punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
@punctumbooks.bsky.social
punctum books is a queer, scholar-led Open Access press devoted to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library & funded by university libraries across the globe. https://punctumbooks.com
Who remembers Frank Rosenblat & his Perceptron, forgotten figures in the #queer history of computing & symbolic #AI?
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. Out today #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. Out today #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Who remembers Frank Rosenblat & his Perceptron, forgotten figures in the #queer history of computing & symbolic #AI?
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. Out today #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. Out today #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
Before #AI there was Frank Rosenblatt's Perceptron, the origin of much neural network technology & misunderstood in its own time.
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Before #AI there was Frank Rosenblatt's Perceptron, the origin of much neural network technology & misunderstood in its own time.
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
How do we STEP DOWN from humanist supremacist pedestals, UNDO our dependency on unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism & STOP the heteroreproduction of a species that has become plague?
Your manual:
Jayme de Val's ONTOHACKERS, #OpenAccess & FREE to read:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
Your manual:
Jayme de Val's ONTOHACKERS, #OpenAccess & FREE to read:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How do we STEP DOWN from humanist supremacist pedestals, UNDO our dependency on unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism & STOP the heteroreproduction of a species that has become plague?
Your manual:
Jayme de Val's ONTOHACKERS, #OpenAccess & FREE to read:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
Your manual:
Jayme de Val's ONTOHACKERS, #OpenAccess & FREE to read:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
How do we STEP DOWN from humanist supremacist pedestals, UNDO our dependency upon unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism & STOP the heteroreproduction of a species that has become a plague? We have the manual.
Jaime de Val's ONTOHACKERS, 3 vols., #OpenAccess:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
Jaime de Val's ONTOHACKERS, 3 vols., #OpenAccess:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
How do we STEP DOWN from humanist supremacist pedestals, UNDO our dependency upon unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism & STOP the heteroreproduction of a species that has become a plague? We have the manual.
Jaime de Val's ONTOHACKERS, 3 vols., #OpenAccess:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
Jaime de Val's ONTOHACKERS, 3 vols., #OpenAccess:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
NYTimes headline: Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
We really want to know @nytimes.com: what the literal HELL is wrong with you? Laugh, cry, rage?!? Who knows anymore.
BETTER: Epstein Told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump Knew He Was a Pedophile
HASHTAG BURN IT DOWN.
We really want to know @nytimes.com: what the literal HELL is wrong with you? Laugh, cry, rage?!? Who knows anymore.
BETTER: Epstein Told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump Knew He Was a Pedophile
HASHTAG BURN IT DOWN.
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
NYTimes headline: Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
We really want to know @nytimes.com: what the literal HELL is wrong with you? Laugh, cry, rage?!? Who knows anymore.
BETTER: Epstein Told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump Knew He Was a Pedophile
HASHTAG BURN IT DOWN.
We really want to know @nytimes.com: what the literal HELL is wrong with you? Laugh, cry, rage?!? Who knows anymore.
BETTER: Epstein Told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump Knew He Was a Pedophile
HASHTAG BURN IT DOWN.
punctum books is now dumpling books & the co-directors are now the Ninja 🥷 & the Dumpling 🥟 . All books are steamed or pan-fried and served with chili 🌶️ crisp. Because our books are spicy and if you don’t agree, the Ninja will convince you otherwise. YUM!
Tshirt available here: tinyurl.com/mr296jw5
Tshirt available here: tinyurl.com/mr296jw5
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
punctum books is now dumpling books & the co-directors are now the Ninja 🥷 & the Dumpling 🥟 . All books are steamed or pan-fried and served with chili 🌶️ crisp. Because our books are spicy and if you don’t agree, the Ninja will convince you otherwise. YUM!
Tshirt available here: tinyurl.com/mr296jw5
Tshirt available here: tinyurl.com/mr296jw5
What if a psychiatric hospital eliminated locks & restraints, shared governance with its patients & opened its grounds as a public park? It happened in Italy in the 1960s & the doctors & patients wrote this book together.
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
What if a psychiatric hospital eliminated locks & restraints, shared governance with its patients & opened its grounds as a public park? It happened in Italy in the 1960s & the doctors & patients wrote this book together.
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
What if a psychiatric hospital eliminated locks & restraints, shared governance with its patients & opened its grounds as a public park? It happened in Italy in the 1960s & the doctors & patients wrote this book together.
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
What if a psychiatric hospital eliminated locks & restraints, shared governance with its patients & opened its grounds as a public park? It happened in Italy in the 1960s & the doctors & patients wrote this book together.
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
punctum books, founded in Brooklyn in 2011, celebrates Mamdani’s victory in NYC. To the 1M+ NYC voters who said they would leave the city if he won, please don’t let the door hit you on the way out. 🎉🥳🍾
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
punctum books, founded in Brooklyn in 2011, celebrates Mamdani’s victory in NYC. To the 1M+ NYC voters who said they would leave the city if he won, please don’t let the door hit you on the way out. 🎉🥳🍾
punctum’s headquarters for the Charleston Conference! #chsconf2025
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
punctum’s headquarters for the Charleston Conference! #chsconf2025
The Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social is LIVE at the Charleston Conference from 10am to 5pm today! Come chat all things community-led #OpenAccess book publishing with Livy Snyder & Eileen Joy.
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social is LIVE at the Charleston Conference from 10am to 5pm today! Come chat all things community-led #OpenAccess book publishing with Livy Snyder & Eileen Joy.
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
In the age of extinction, when AI bots have swarmed the ramparts, trillionaires head for off-planet bunkers & our dependency upon unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism has hobbled us, this is your survival manual.
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
November 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In the age of extinction, when AI bots have swarmed the ramparts, trillionaires head for off-planet bunkers & our dependency upon unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism has hobbled us, this is your survival manual.
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
It’s #NationalCatDay and we’re remembering Lucy, punctum’s office muse, who sailed to Valhalla this past July at the age of 17. She didn’t break the mold; she was the mold.
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It’s #NationalCatDay and we’re remembering Lucy, punctum’s office muse, who sailed to Valhalla this past July at the age of 17. She didn’t break the mold; she was the mold.
Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!
October 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!
Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!
October 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!
Director Eileen Joy yukking it up with @georgemasonu.bsky.social librarians (Anne Osterman, Meg Meiman, Alok Yadav & Emilie Algenio) & #OpenAccess publishers @charleswatkinson.bsky.social & Peter Potter @paradigmpubserv.bsky.social at GMU's Center for the Humanities to discuss OA books last Friday.
October 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Director Eileen Joy yukking it up with @georgemasonu.bsky.social librarians (Anne Osterman, Meg Meiman, Alok Yadav & Emilie Algenio) & #OpenAccess publishers @charleswatkinson.bsky.social & Peter Potter @paradigmpubserv.bsky.social at GMU's Center for the Humanities to discuss OA books last Friday.
punctum Co-Director Vincent van Gerven Oei and punctum author Sawako Nakayasu confabbing in Tokyo!
Check out Nakayasu's book THE ANTS here -- "the distance, the break, and the tenuous wilderness between exoskeleton and endoskeleton" -- which is #FREE to download:
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
Check out Nakayasu's book THE ANTS here -- "the distance, the break, and the tenuous wilderness between exoskeleton and endoskeleton" -- which is #FREE to download:
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
October 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
punctum Co-Director Vincent van Gerven Oei and punctum author Sawako Nakayasu confabbing in Tokyo!
Check out Nakayasu's book THE ANTS here -- "the distance, the break, and the tenuous wilderness between exoskeleton and endoskeleton" -- which is #FREE to download:
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
Check out Nakayasu's book THE ANTS here -- "the distance, the break, and the tenuous wilderness between exoskeleton and endoskeleton" -- which is #FREE to download:
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
"A landmark text at a moment when a new conversation about what it means to inhabit this land together is so desperately needed." ~Lyndsey Stonebridge
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
#immigration #migrancy #dispossessions
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
#immigration #migrancy #dispossessions
October 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"A landmark text at a moment when a new conversation about what it means to inhabit this land together is so desperately needed." ~Lyndsey Stonebridge
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
#immigration #migrancy #dispossessions
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
#immigration #migrancy #dispossessions
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms shows how the arts & the humanities can meet the ethical demands that the reality of mass displacement places on us, in a way that governments & institutions have failed to do.
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
October 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms shows how the arts & the humanities can meet the ethical demands that the reality of mass displacement places on us, in a way that governments & institutions have failed to do.
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
Are the executive orders getting you down? Caught between $100,000 immigration visas & making federal architecture beautiful again? You NEED the People's EXECUTIVE ORDERS:
By the fleece vested in us, we hereby order a freezer cake!
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/zsrat342
By the fleece vested in us, we hereby order a freezer cake!
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/zsrat342
October 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Are the executive orders getting you down? Caught between $100,000 immigration visas & making federal architecture beautiful again? You NEED the People's EXECUTIVE ORDERS:
By the fleece vested in us, we hereby order a freezer cake!
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/zsrat342
By the fleece vested in us, we hereby order a freezer cake!
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/zsrat342
October 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms shows how the arts & the humanities can meet the ethical demands that the reality of mass displacement places on us, in a way that governments & institutions have failed to do.
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms shows how the arts & the humanities can meet the ethical demands that the reality of mass displacement places on us, in a way that governments & institutions have failed to do.
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
Bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, Marilyn Monroe, orgies, missing children, Mickey Mouse, zombies, Nazis, shock therapy, surf music & the psycho-history of the 20th century.
COMING THIS FALL: a new, updated edition of Laurence Rickels's 1991 THE CASE OF CALIFORNIA:
tinyurl.com/4um26dza
COMING THIS FALL: a new, updated edition of Laurence Rickels's 1991 THE CASE OF CALIFORNIA:
tinyurl.com/4um26dza
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, Marilyn Monroe, orgies, missing children, Mickey Mouse, zombies, Nazis, shock therapy, surf music & the psycho-history of the 20th century.
COMING THIS FALL: a new, updated edition of Laurence Rickels's 1991 THE CASE OF CALIFORNIA:
tinyurl.com/4um26dza
COMING THIS FALL: a new, updated edition of Laurence Rickels's 1991 THE CASE OF CALIFORNIA:
tinyurl.com/4um26dza
Once the soul leaves the body, he will not fly to the monstrous shrine where all the war dead went & continue to go, but to that farm by the river where white shy herons glide in the quiet sky.
Read IMAGINARY DEATH by Mariko Nagai, published #OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/4nhr37xx
Read IMAGINARY DEATH by Mariko Nagai, published #OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/4nhr37xx
September 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Once the soul leaves the body, he will not fly to the monstrous shrine where all the war dead went & continue to go, but to that farm by the river where white shy herons glide in the quiet sky.
Read IMAGINARY DEATH by Mariko Nagai, published #OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/4nhr37xx
Read IMAGINARY DEATH by Mariko Nagai, published #OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/4nhr37xx
