Punctum Books, stylized as punctum books, is an open-access and print-on-demand independent, scholar-led publisher based in Santa Barbara, California, United States.
The imprint was co-founded in 2011 by Eileen A. Joy (a medievalist and advocate of open access [1]) and Nicola Masciandaro ( Brooklyn College, CUNY), who left the project in 2012. The imprint was conceived partly as an offshoot of the BABEL Working Group, [2] a "non-hierarchical scholarly collective" [3] with an emphasis on medieval studies. Punctum Books was joined in 2016 by co-director Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. Since its inception, Punctum Books has sought to bring scholarly works, often with a transdisciplinary or unconventional nature, to a broader public. It publishes print editions through Kindle Direct Publishing, but buyers can get a PDF version of the book for free through the publisher's website. [4]
In the past, Punctum Books published issues of the journals Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, [5] Badiou Studies, [6] Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, [7] Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory, [8] Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media and Culture, [9] Networks and Neighbours, [10] O-Zone: A Journal of Object Oriented Studies, [11] Radical Criminology, [12] and Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism. [13]
Punctum Books, stylized as punctum books, is an open-access and print-on-demand independent, scholar-led publisher based in Santa Barbara, California, United States.
The imprint was co-founded in 2011 by Eileen A. Joy (a medievalist and advocate of open access [1]) and Nicola Masciandaro ( Brooklyn College, CUNY), who left the project in 2012. The imprint was conceived partly as an offshoot of the BABEL Working Group, [2] a "non-hierarchical scholarly collective" [3] with an emphasis on medieval studies. Punctum Books was joined in 2016 by co-director Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. Since its inception, Punctum Books has sought to bring scholarly works, often with a transdisciplinary or unconventional nature, to a broader public. It publishes print editions through Kindle Direct Publishing, but buyers can get a PDF version of the book for free through the publisher's website. [4]
In the past, Punctum Books published issues of the journals Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, [5] Badiou Studies, [6] Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, [7] Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory, [8] Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media and Culture, [9] Networks and Neighbours, [10] O-Zone: A Journal of Object Oriented Studies, [11] Radical Criminology, [12] and Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism. [13]