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Imagining What We Don't Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies
- Lisa Samuels (author)
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| Title | Imagining What We Don't Know |
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| Subtitle | Creative Theory and Critical Bodies |
| Contributor | Lisa Samuels (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0483.1.00 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/imagining-what-we-dont-know-creative-theory-and-critical-bodies/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Lisa Samuels |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Publication place | Earth, Milky Way |
| Published on | 2026-02-23 |
| ISBN | 978-1-68571-204-4 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-68571-205-1 (PDF) | |
| 978-1-68571-308-9 (EPUB) | |
| Long abstract | Bringing together perception, ecology, community, lingual value, and quantum life, Imagining What We Don’t Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies presents twenty-four essays and theory poems that blend interpretive neologisms — wild dialectics, distributed centrality, membranism, deformance, bioautography, transplace, soft text, and more — with readings of visionary philosophers and the art and writing of Algeria, Australasia, the Caribbean, Oceania, the UK, and the US. Committed to experimental ideation and relational ethics, Imagining What We Don’t Know is for art and theory practitioners, philosophy rebels, creative writers, and anyone who relishes thinking about contemporary art, transnational and transdisciplinary life, and how we imagine with language. Imagining What We Don’t Know presents a biblio-architecture of “blurprints” built with theories of the embodied mind that are elemental, entangled, and electrified by the political. This is creative theory, hovering with alterities of art and interpretation and imagining with critical attention. |
| Print length | 320 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 127 x 19 x 203 mm | 5" x 0.73" x 8" (Paperback) |
| Weight | 318g | 11.20oz (Paperback) |
| LCCN | 2026932501 |
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Contributors
Lisa Samuels
(author)Lisa Samuels experiments with writing, art, and relational theory in transnational life. The author of fifteen books, from The Seven Voices (O Books, 1998) to Livestream (Shearsman Books, 2023), and of many chapbooks and essays, Samuels also edits literary work, collaborates with other artists, and performs internationally. Samuels’s doctoral theory-practice, deformance, is an established interpretive method; the transmigration epic Tomorrowland (Shearsman Books, 2009) has been versioned as a soundscape audio and an art film (dir. Wes Tank); Tender Girl (Dusie, 2015; Mekana Devojka, trans. Milan Pupezin) re-envisions the neosurrealist novel; and The Guardian recognized Symphony for Human Transport (Shearsman Books, 2017) in its annual top ten poetry books. Samuels grew up in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, became an academic in the US, and currently lives in Oceania.