Sparkles ✨ the OA Dog

punctum books has vacated the Hellscape known as X. You can find us on Instagram as punctum_books and Bluesky as punctumbooks.bsky.social. Our director @EileenAJoy can be found on Instagram as eileenajoy.

punctum director @EileenAJoy is in #Toronto for #MLA26 and she’s got her cufflinks in drive mode. Visit us in the books exhibition if you’re here where our theme this year is “Queer Words Are Power.” #OpenAccess

Are you going to be at #MLA26 in #Toronto this week? @punctum_books will have a booth & we would love to see you. Come by to browse & buy books, chat with our creative director about book ideas & grab some swag: Book Faggot tote bags, bookmarks, pins, stickers & more! #OpenAccess

Poet, novelist, translator & scholar, Ammiel Alcalay’s intrepid work has always moved across geographic, chronological, political & linguistic borders. "FOLLOW THE PERSON": Archival Encounters now published #OpenAccess & FREE to download: tinyurl.com/ykeh7ebz

Are you going to be at the #MLA26 convention in #Toronto this week? punctum will have a booth & we would love to see you. Come by to browse & buy books, chat with our creative director about book ideas & grab some swag: Book Faggot tote bags, bookmarks, pins, stickers & more!

James Caan stuffing matches, knives, lighter fluid, and paper clips into his sweatpants in #Misery is all of us in America right now.

Please Sir, is there anything left over for punctum books? This holiday season, give #OpenAccess books to the world as a punctum subscriber! For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help build a global library of books so weird no genre can contain them. tinyurl.com/5n8aexy6

This season, please remember that Palestinian Lives Matter. Please contribute to Gazan aid campaigns. Hundreds of Gazans have been maimed & murdered since the so-called cease-fire. Please give something to help families such as the Jawads to survive & even to get out. #GAZA 🇵🇸

Please Sir, is there anything left over for punctum books? This holiday season, why not give #OpenAccess books to the world by becoming a punctum subscriber? For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help to build a global library of books so weird no genre can contain them! tinyurl.com/5n8aexy6

The heart of an affordance is its world-making capacity. When anyone makes use of an affordance, the world becomes more accommodating. In OA publishing, affordances are the tiny engines that power bibliodiversity. Reflections on the Charleston Conference: tinyurl.com/39unffpc

Ifland’s prose poems trace a process of decreation (dismemberment of the body, dissolution of the ego, abandonment of the self) & the reinvention of a new identity purified by the acid of tears. OUT #OpenAccess! Alta Ifland, VOIX DE GLACE/VOICE OF ICE tinyurl.com/537kxvvc

Before AI there was Frank Rosenblatt's Perceptron, the origin of neural network technology & misunderstood in its own time. PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental poetry & critical biography of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to read! tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d

Digital content is never neutral with respect to different bodies & modes of reading & attending to its form is essential to making scholarship genuinely open. READ our new Accessibility Roadmap for making our books even more open for disabled readers: tinyurl.com/yapbh9ej

How do we STEP DOWN from humanist supremacist pedestals, UNDO our dependency on killing machines of sedentary consumerism & STOP the hetero-reproduction of a species that has become plague? Your manual: Jayme del Val's 3-volume #OpenAccess ONTOHACKERS: tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s

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