https://hcommons.org/members/eileenajoy/activity/ Activity feed for Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4954bfdf4ceafd4a72f6473d28201d5d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1922458/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:14:29 -0400 0 da9d93c226068a9bd25009bc40e4330a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1916906/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:52:26 -0400 0 b29099776bede5e438be5b35d3afa96c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1906116/ Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:30:43 -0500 0 04a2442dc8dcc7390399b7513ee4c4d4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899356/ Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:20:06 -0400 0 cfcbca2f3b0ffa6d7784424e04a1bcd7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899187/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:56:35 -0400 0 94b56b9f3a831e5a4566611dd1a6b146 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867393/ Sun, 10 Dec 2023 03:01:02 -0500 In this essay, we share how a small, independent, academic open access (OA) press, punctum books, has survived and can maybe thrive financially, but also in terms of human quality of life dividends, in the very precarious landscape of making and funding open books. Tracing the history of the press and our bumpy road to better financial…[Read more]

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]]> 0 c68e16d2a5f743151ba949cc5eadd8c0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867338/ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 18:14:36 -0500 In this essay, we share how a small, independent, academic open access (OA) press, punctum books, has survived and can maybe thrive financially, but also in terms of human quality of life dividends, in the very precarious landscape of making and funding open books. Tracing the history of the press and our bumpy road to better financial…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0f3e466032e6b018a17a0ea3aa21613 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816942/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 01:15:09 -0400 0 43aaf94a86fa18a6b9cf44159d312277 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816901/ Sat, 08 Oct 2022 02:25:34 -0400 A response to the decision of Wiley Global to "disappear" 1,300+ of their ebooks in the ProQuest catalog at the beginning of the Fall 2022 term without any communication to university libraries at all, thus taking libraries by surprise and indicating Wiley's move away from libraries as repositories and lenders of their ebooks, passing on costs to…[Read more]

]]> 0 60e9d328411b3e48b377875845426b90 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816900/ Sat, 08 Oct 2022 02:25:25 -0400 A response to the decision of Wiley Global to "disappear" 1,300+ of their ebooks in the ProQuest catalog at the beginning of the Fall 2022 term without any communication to university libraries at all, thus taking libraries by surprise and indicating Wiley's move away from libraries as repositories and lenders of their ebooks, passing on costs to…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b1a9a49b25a96067bd5051c4f994319 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816899/ Sat, 08 Oct 2022 02:25:13 -0400 A response to the decision of Wiley Global to "disappear" 1,300+ of their ebooks in the ProQuest catalog at the beginning of the Fall 2022 term without any communication to university libraries at all, thus taking libraries by surprise and indicating Wiley's move away from libraries as repositories and lenders of their ebooks, passing on costs to…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2972dfd03cbcc104247336401dc5bf9 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816898/ Sat, 08 Oct 2022 02:24:36 -0400 A response to the decision of Wiley Global to "disappear" 1,300+ of their ebooks in the ProQuest catalog at the beginning of the Fall 2022 term without any communication to university libraries at all, thus taking libraries by surprise and indicating Wiley's move away from libraries as repositories and lenders of their ebooks, passing on costs to…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebfd913cf4f5587415a9a91a8ac05cc3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816897/ Sat, 08 Oct 2022 02:24:06 -0400 A response to the decision of Wiley Global to "disappear" 1,300+ of their ebooks in the ProQuest catalog at the beginning of the Fall 2022 term without any communication to university libraries at all, thus taking libraries by surprise and indicating Wiley's move away from libraries as repositories and lenders of their ebooks, passing on costs to…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e0dfd553c4bf5d955808463fce7e8f8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816857/ Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:26:37 -0400 A response to the decision of Wiley Global to "disappear" 1,300+ of their ebooks in the ProQuest catalog at the beginning of the Fall 2022 term without any communication to university libraries at all, thus taking libraries by surprise and indicating Wiley's move away from libraries as repositories and lenders of their ebooks, passing on costs to…[Read more]

]]> 0 72b9addc57a64435ada0443b79eec375 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816855/ Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:07:45 -0400 0 2bc1b963dc7c44f29184ae568156430f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790741/ Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:29:02 -0400 0 191f0fb77257d0b24fef41cfa1b77726 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766496/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 02:24:24 -0500 This mini-essay was published as part of a "dossier" of authors discussing various forms of "queer inhumanisms." In my piece, I address the relations between queer studies and post/humanist studies through the lens of Michel Foucault's 1981 interview, "Friendship as a Way of Life." These relations are tied together in critique but also in various…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c6f1c814d9bd052b577810e86d0913c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766495/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 02:24:21 -0500 This mini-essay was published as part of a "dossier" of authors discussing various forms of "queer inhumanisms." In my piece, I address the relations between queer studies and post/humanist studies through the lens of Michel Foucault's 1981 interview, "Friendship as a Way of Life." These relations are tied together in critique but also in various…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc6c234fc5620880bfb7527bce76ad92 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766494/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 02:24:10 -0500 This mini-essay was published as part of a "dossier" of authors discussing various forms of "queer inhumanisms." In my piece, I address the relations between queer studies and post/humanist studies through the lens of Michel Foucault's 1981 interview, "Friendship as a Way of Life." These relations are tied together in critique but also in various…[Read more]

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]]> 0 11871bba631049a5d58dbd35f6fba8fd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766435/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:20:20 -0500 This mini-essay was published as part of a "dossier" of authors discussing various forms of "queer inhumanisms." In my piece, I address the relations between queer studies and post/humanist studies through the lens of Michel Foucault's 1981 interview, "Friendship as a Way of Life." These relations are tied together in critique but also in various…[Read more]

]]> 0 72f9db4a43df20d86e12ed66f41be2c2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766433/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:01:27 -0500 0 71415d1b8eb9998c32238bb764c3b0c5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765728/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:25:50 -0500 An commentary upon the poet Spencer Reese, and more specifically, upon Reece's "addresses" in his book "The Clerk's Tale: Poems" (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) in light of Barbara Johnson's work on the "apostrophe" in her book chapter "Toys R Us," in her book "Persons and Things" (Harvard University Press, 2008), and also in light of Graham Harman's…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc4c1b9e70162cc19235bf7db46425ad https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765727/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:25:44 -0500 An commentary upon the poet Spencer Reese, and more specifically, upon Reece's "addresses" in his book "The Clerk's Tale: Poems" (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) in light of Barbara Johnson's work on the "apostrophe" in her book chapter "Toys R Us," in her book "Persons and Things" (Harvard University Press, 2008), and also in light of Graham Harman's…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9ba4afb6ba1ecad86c4fd4442412951 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765726/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:25:39 -0500 An commentary upon the poet Spencer Reese, and more specifically, upon Reece's "addresses" in his book "The Clerk's Tale: Poems" (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) in light of Barbara Johnson's work on the "apostrophe" in her book chapter "Toys R Us," in her book "Persons and Things" (Harvard University Press, 2008), and also in light of Graham Harman's…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ec29cc57f0b0133dfc2e521d2e012e9 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765725/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:25:26 -0500 An commentary upon the poet Spencer Reese, and more specifically, upon Reece's "addresses" in his book "The Clerk's Tale: Poems" (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) in light of Barbara Johnson's work on the "apostrophe" in her book chapter "Toys R Us," in her book "Persons and Things" (Harvard University Press, 2008), and also in light of Graham Harman's…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d04918f2900c95b2987cab298c7922a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765645/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:04:52 -0500 An commentary upon the poet Spencer Reese, and more specifically, upon Reece's "addresses" in his book "The Clerk's Tale: Poems" (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) in light of Barbara Johnson's work on the "apostrophe" in her book chapter "Toys R Us," in her book "Persons and Things" (Harvard University Press, 2008), and also in light of Graham Harman's…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4875f2a5e3a34501a5439dbb283186b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718086/ Thu, 26 Nov 2020 02:24:45 -0500 This chapter explores how certain forms of academic publishing—especially scholar-led, community-owned, open-access platforms and presses—might enable better forms of institutional life conducive to personal flourishing and the increase of public knowledge (and to lubricating the important connection between the two), especially at a time when the…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca9bac6901d0029995a769820dd2535f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718085/ Thu, 26 Nov 2020 02:24:36 -0500 This chapter explores how certain forms of academic publishing—especially scholar-led, community-owned, open-access platforms and presses—might enable better forms of institutional life conducive to personal flourishing and the increase of public knowledge (and to lubricating the important connection between the two), especially at a time when the…[Read more]

]]> 0 238ffcb72e6220b02b28b591bb39f9ea https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718084/ Thu, 26 Nov 2020 02:24:08 -0500 This chapter explores how certain forms of academic publishing—especially scholar-led, community-owned, open-access platforms and presses—might enable better forms of institutional life conducive to personal flourishing and the increase of public knowledge (and to lubricating the important connection between the two), especially at a time when the…[Read more]

]]> 0 34d341243e8aad6f90908b8fefb85b5f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718075/ Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:52:47 -0500 This chapter explores how How certain forms of academic publishing—especially scholar-led, community-owned, open-access platforms, and presses—might enable better forms of institutional life conducive to personal flourishing and the increase of public knowledge (and to lubricating the important connection between the two), especially at a time whe…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc32b3a69ffc962e22c3900571aa0ad0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673669/ Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:32:23 -0500 In this essay, I examine two widely divergent instances of what I understand to be a compulsive and racialized-sexualized violence against women whose bodies have been figured as "foreign"/Eastern (and even, as animal and barbaric) threats within collective national bodies: the real case of a massacre in the modern state of Gujarat in southwestern…[Read more]

]]> 0 867bdc8c29223ef80b489398eaddb345 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673668/ Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:32:18 -0500 In this essay, I examine two widely divergent instances of what I understand to be a compulsive and racialized-sexualized violence against women whose bodies have been figured as "foreign"/Eastern (and even, as animal and barbaric) threats within collective national bodies: the real case of a massacre in the modern state of Gujarat in southwestern…[Read more]

]]> 0 6020e12e51ab12d55d980bd86f568229 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673667/ Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:32:13 -0500 In this essay, I examine two widely divergent instances of what I understand to be a compulsive and racialized-sexualized violence against women whose bodies have been figured as "foreign"/Eastern (and even, as animal and barbaric) threats within collective national bodies: the real case of a massacre in the modern state of Gujarat in southwestern…[Read more]

]]> 0 099d0a2a7175a3b53c0bf6ec35d310eb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673584/ Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:00:05 -0500 In this essay, I examine two widely divergent instances of what I understand to be a compulsive and racialized-sexualized violence against women whose bodies have been figured as "foreign"/Eastern (and even, as animal and barbaric) threats within collective national bodies: the real case of a massacre in the modern state of Gujarat in southwestern…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb9ed3161055c888e55726485bf3b92a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642783/ Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:31:03 -0400 0 f0e08a52b66d6bca4cdf3bd4a83e95f1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642492/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:26:20 -0400 By way of the autobiographical writings of Bruno Schulz and the "resurrection" paintings of Stanley Spencer, this talk sketches out some of the ways in which literature and the fine arts situate themselves within the division, or series of breaks, that Michel de Certeau argued Western historiography inscribes between past and present, between the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d1fdc125c6d4288bd536fd8ce691eef https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642491/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:26:17 -0400 By way of the autobiographical writings of Bruno Schulz and the "resurrection" paintings of Stanley Spencer, this talk sketches out some of the ways in which literature and the fine arts situate themselves within the division, or series of breaks, that Michel de Certeau argued Western historiography inscribes between past and present, between the…[Read more]

]]> 0 33367e8c078c3c12d1753c48c218fb5a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642490/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:26:15 -0400 By way of the autobiographical writings of Bruno Schulz and the "resurrection" paintings of Stanley Spencer, this talk sketches out some of the ways in which literature and the fine arts situate themselves within the division, or series of breaks, that Michel de Certeau argued Western historiography inscribes between past and present, between the…[Read more]

]]> 0 92f96ccb13c29d907c5c97abf42f3ab0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642489/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:26:09 -0400 By way of the autobiographical writings of Bruno Schulz and the "resurrection" paintings of Stanley Spencer, this talk sketches out some of the ways in which literature and the fine arts situate themselves within the division, or series of breaks, that Michel de Certeau argued Western historiography inscribes between past and present, between the…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c3193f5ce70e1040e7f3f75c499fdd5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642488/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:26:07 -0400 Although the ultimate theme of "The Seven Sleepers" can be located in its medieval Christian doctrine—the bodily resurrection is real, and therefore it is in the afterworld where one finally, really “lives,” with shining body and soul together—I would like to argue that, in the Old English version's emphasis on the highly individualized emotion…[Read more]

]]> 0 b16c54904e0e5286e74381efde66176f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642487/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:26:06 -0400 Although the ultimate theme of "The Seven Sleepers" can be located in its medieval Christian doctrine—the bodily resurrection is real, and therefore it is in the afterworld where one finally, really “lives,” with shining body and soul together—I would like to argue that, in the Old English version's emphasis on the highly individualized emotion…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6e33d7c387c05e885ac3952bc08b692 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642486/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:26:05 -0400 Although the ultimate theme of "The Seven Sleepers" can be located in its medieval Christian doctrine—the bodily resurrection is real, and therefore it is in the afterworld where one finally, really “lives,” with shining body and soul together—I would like to argue that, in the Old English version's emphasis on the highly individualized emotion…[Read more]

]]> 0 11080893ef8ec5bb5c193ec8db81a2d2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642485/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:25:38 -0400 Through an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play "Homebody/Kabul" and the Old English "Ruin" poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]

]]> 0 78db87fe07e18d7320a3ccb90b41aa4e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642484/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:25:35 -0400 Through an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play "Homebody/Kabul" and the Old English "Ruin" poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ffbe76d680d789859e70446f3ffc514 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642483/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:25:33 -0400 Through an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play "Homebody/Kabul" and the Old English "Ruin" poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f476e22f8d3e6f20ee0f5295a3929ba https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642482/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:25:25 -0400 Through an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play "Homebody/Kabul" and the Old English "Ruin" poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f476e22f8d3e6f20ee0f5295a3929ba https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642481/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:25:25 -0400 Through an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play "Homebody/Kabul" and the Old English "Ruin" poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]

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