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Mortevivum

Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual by Kimberly Juanita Brown, Associate Professor, Department of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College The inaugural title in the On Seeing Series is Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual, a powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness. Mortevivum

Standing Still Moving

hand print on stone

Standing Still Moving: Arts of Gesture in Lateral Time by Rebecca Schneider, Professor of Modern Culture and Media Standing Still Moving: Arts of Gesture in Lateral Time offers a theory of gesture, antiphony and interval in the arts. As time-based arts are essentially arts of the interval, the book explores betweenness, besideness, and amongness in cross-temporal Standing Still Moving

The Sensory Monastery

the abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes

The Sensory Monastery by Sheila Bonde, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, and Clark Maines, Professor of Art History Emeritus at Wesleyan University Focusing on the abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in northern France, founded in the eleventh century, The Sensory Monastery offers a single site as a case study to consider the phenomenology of architecture. The The Sensory Monastery

Poet Sagawa Chika: Late Gathering

Japanese language text

Poet Sagawa Chika: Late Gathering by Sawako Nakayasu, Assistant Professor of Literary Arts Poet Sagawa Chika: Late Gathering brings together American and Japanese scholars and artists to reexamine the legacy of one of Japan’s most influential poets, Sagawa Chika (1911–1936), largely ignored by critics and known within the Japanese poetry community as “everyone’s favorite unknown poet.” The Poet Sagawa Chika: Late Gathering

Imperial Unsettling

protesters for indigenous rights posing with signs. Featured image for the publication Imperial Unsettling.

Imperial Unsettling: Indigenous and Immigrant Activism towards Collective Liberation by Kevin Escudero, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies Imperial Unsettling: Indigenous and Immigrant Activism towards Collective Liberation examines the relationship between Indigenous CHamoru activists and Asian immigrant community members in Guåhan (Guam). Contending that kinship ties within and among Indigenous CHamoru and Asian settler Imperial Unsettling