What happens when one launches an independent academic press without the resources that an already existing university press (UP) has, without institutional backing of any kind, and without a so-called angel investor or private foundation grants? punctum books had none of these things when it started in 2011, but it had Eileen’s retirement s…[Read more]

In recent years, medieval studies have become increasingly aware of how enmeshed they are in fascist ideologies as medieval imagery is weaponized and scholarly discourse appropriated for political ends. These developments have brought into view how medieval studies as a discipline have its origins in the epistemic frameworks of 19th-century…[Read more]

Old Nubian is the modern designation for a literary language attested in texts from the Nubian kingdom of Makuria in the Middle Nile Valley between the late eighth and fifteenth century ce. This entry provides a concise overview of the language, its history, and its grammatical features.

On a sunny Monday afternoon I met with P. to visit the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.[1] A month prior, the overview exhibition of Bruce Nauman, produced in collaboration with the Tate Modern, had opened, and we were curious to visit it. Nauman’s work, in particular Seven F…[Read more]

Slides accompanying a lecture given at Goldsmiths College, January 18, 2018 concerning Wilfred Bion’s theory of thinking and Martin Heidegger’s “What Is Called Thinking?”

Lecture given at Goldsmiths College, January 18, 2018 concerning Wilfred Bion’s theory of thinking and Martin Heidegger’s “What Is Called Thinking?”

Lecture in the Studium Generale series “Are You Alive or Not?,” Rietveld Academy, February 4, 2014.

Lecture given during the book presentation of Joost de Bloois and Ernst van den Hemel, eds., Alain Badiou: Inesthetiek: filosofie, kunst, politiek (Octavo 2012), De Papel, October 14, 2012

Introduction to Block II: Stateless Democracy and Self-Defense, New World Summit V, Utrecht, January 30, 3016. Reflections on Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence.”

Slides accompanying the introduction given to the panel “Dialoguing with the More-Than-Human,” Interplanetary Species Society (ISS), Reaktorhallen, Stockholm, August 24, 2019.

Introduction given to the panel “Dialoguing with the More-Than-Human,” Interplanetary Species Society (ISS), Reaktorhallen, Stockholm, August 24, 2019.

Slides accompanying a lecture given at the Summer School of Engaged Art, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, July 31, 2015. An analysis of barbarism through the lens of Greek playwrights and German philosophers, and a reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Porcile.”

Lecture given at the Summer School of Engaged Art, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, July 31, 2015. An analysis of barbarism through the lens of Greek playwrights and German philosophers, and a reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Porcile.”

Introduction to the session “Violence and Non-Violence” at Artists Organzizations International, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, January 9–11, 2015. Analysis of a single frame from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò.”

In lieu of an introduction, this dissertation starts with a short exposé on the paradigm, or the example, which provides the general framework in which the argument will de- velop – namely to the side of more classical modes of deductive or inductive reasoning. Our argument here is that in order to inspect a concept – etumos logos – that has be…[Read more]

In this thesis, it is our aim to discuss several aspects and developments of the Greek concept of πτῶσις, commonly know as case. This term was first coined by Aristotle in relation to both the grammatical and the philosophical category of the ὑποκειμένον (hypokeimenon) or subject. It is our contention that the concept of πτῶσις (ptōsis), a…[Read more]

Section 2 will focus on the case patterns of simple Inuit transitive clauses.
Section 3 deals with the Inuit ‘ergative’ agreement system.
Section 4 addresses the Inuit phrase structure typology.
Section 5 deals with the Inuit case system into more depth.