Publications

Selected writing

Philosophy and Philology

  • “Neuralese, Thinkish, and Poetry.” August 23, 2026.
  • “A Brief Genealogy of Scheming.” August 15, 2026.
  • “AI and Constituted Power (Or: The Humanities Have Not Yet Entered the Chat).” Naked Punch, forthcoming.
  • “Let Our Brains Rot But Let Them Be Ours.” Ibraaz, January 9, 2026.
  • “Scholarship as Biography: An Allegorical Reading of the Philological Work of G.M. Browne.” In Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures, edited by Catherine E. Karkov, Anna Kłosowska, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. punctum books, 2020.
  • “Exosemiotics.” Lecture at the Interplanetary Species Society, Reaktorhallen, Stockholm, August 24, 2019.
  • “Language on Pause: Hamacher’s Seconds of Celan and Daive.” In Give the Word: Responses to Werner Hamacher’s “95 Theses on Philology,” edited by Ann Smock and Gerhard Richter. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
  • “Thinking with and without the Mother.” Lecture at the Visual Cultures Public Programme, Goldsmiths College, London, January 18, 2018.
  • “Stateless Democracy and Self-Defense.” Lecture at the 5th New World Summit, Utrecht, January 30, 2016.
  • “Whither Barbarism?” Lecture at the Summer School of Engaged Art, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, July 31, 2015.
  • “Violence and Non-Violence.” Lecture at Artists Organizations International, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, January 10, 2015.
  • “Return to Reading.” In Allegory of the Cave Painting, edited by Mihnea Mircan and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. Mousse, 2015.
  • Cross-Examinations. MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015.
  • “The Disturbing Object of Philology.” postmedieval 5, no. 4 (2014): 442–55.
  • “By Any Language Necessary: Quentin Meillassoux and the Question Concerning Signification in Philosophy.” Quaderna 2 (2014).
  • “I was thinking sparrow Lena stick…”: Or, How Gombrowicz Exposed Philosophy’s Immaturity.” Frakcija 66–67 (2013): 138–47.
  • “‘I’m like the Unicorn’: Desiring Language.” In Relational Syntax, edited by Marco Mazzi. Maschietto Editore, 2012.
  • “Circulating Philosophy: A Note on Two Apparent Misquotations in Alain Badiou’s Logics of Worlds.” Theory & Event 14, no. 2 (2011) (with John Van Houdt).

Art and Criticism

  • “Proletgeology I: Against Georevisionism.” In A Biography of Daphne, edited by Mihnea Mircan and Helen Hughes. Spector Books, 2027.
  • “Inoperative, Fragments.” In Șerban Savu: Work’s Labour’s Lost, edited by Mihnea Mircan and Bertha Savu. Galeria Plan B, 2025.
  • “No White in Sight.” Stedelijk Studies, October 27, 2023.
  • “Straight Innocence.” Stedelijk Studies, October 13, 2021.
  • “Who Is Melly Shum? On FKA Witte de With’s Name Change.” Ocula, October 27, 2020.
  • Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura. punctum books, 2019 (with Marco Mazzi).
  • Allegory of the Cave Painting. Mousse, 2015 (with Mihnea Mircan).
  • Evers, Frans. The Academy of the Senses: Synesthetics in Science, Art, and Education. ArtScience Interfaculty Press, 2012.

Albanian Studies

  • Mekanizmi shqiptar. Translated by Bledar Qalliu. Pika pa sipërfaqe, forthcoming.
  • Torenhoog corrupt: Een Europees architectuurleger in Albanië. Het Wereldvenster, forthcoming.
  • “Albanofuturism and Star Death.” Art Studies 23 (2024): 11–41.
  • “Lapidars and Skyscrapers as Monumental Propaganda.” Keynote at Unfolding the City: Art as an Agent of Transformation, Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana, December 11, 2024.
  • Rënia e së ardhmes: Arti, korrupsioni dhe fundi i tranzicionit shqiptar. Translated by Bledar Qalliu. Pika pa sipërfaqe, 2023.
  • “Three Positions on the Demolition of the Albanian National Theatre.” Arts of the Working Class, June 25, 2020 (with Jonida Gashi and Sonja Lau).
  • “Subtitling Communism: Beneath Anri Sala’s Intervista.” Afterall: A Journal of Text, Context and Enquiry 45 (2018): 58–67.
  • “Give Me the Colors… And the Country: Albanian Propaganda in the 21st Century.” Artpapers (March/April 2016).
  • Lapidari. 3 Vols. punctum books, 2015.
  • Workers leaving the studio. Looking away from socialist realism. punctum books, 2015.

Nubian Studies

  • “The Old Nubian Ps.-Chrysostomus’s In quattuor animalia in the Context of Coptic, Arabic, and Ge’ez Oral and Literary Traditions.” In Chrétiens du Nil: une histoire pluriséculaire de la circulation des textes et images entre l’Égypte et la Corne de l’Afrique, edited by Martina Ambu and Damien Labadie. Brepols, forthcoming (with Damien Labadie and Alexandros Tsakos).
  • “Old Dongolawi as the Language of the ‘Southern Nubian’ Inscriptions.” In Nubian Voices: Studies in Christian Nubian Culture, Vol. III, edited by Adam Łajtar, Grzegorz Ochała, and Jacques van der Vliet. Peeters, forthcoming.
  • “Four Old Nubian Burial Shrouds from Gebel Adda.” In Nubian Voices: Studies in Christian Nubian Culture, Vol. III, edited by Adam Łajtar, Grzegorz Ochała, and Jacques van der Vliet. Peeters, forthcoming (with Adam Łajtar and Magdalena Woźniak).
  • “Six Bilingual Greek–Old Nubian Parchments from Qasr Ibrim.” In Nubian Voices: Studies in Christian Nubian Culture, Vol. III, edited by Adam Łajtar, Grzegorz Ochała, and Jacques van der Vliet. Peeters, forthcoming (with Agata Deptuła and Adam Łajtar).
  • “Apostolic Memoirs in Old Nubian.” In Parabiblica Coptica, edited by Ivan Miroshnikov. Mohr Siebeck, 2023 (with Alexandros Tsakos).
  • “A New Set of Subject Markers in Old Nubian.” In Current Research in Nilo-Saharan, edited by Roger M. Blench, Petra Weschenfelder, and Georg Ziegelmeyer. Rüdiger Köppe, 2023.
  • “No More Miracles: On the Origins and Futures of Nubian Studies.” Keynote at the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies, University of Warsaw, August 30, 2022.
  • “An Old Nubian Sale from Gebel Adda.” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 52 (2022): 35–52.
  • “On the Possible Meroitic Origin of the Old Nubian Titles ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧ and ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧⲓⳟⲟ.” Orientalia 91, no. 1 (2022): 117–32 (with Gilda Ferrandino).
  • A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 299. Peeters, 2021.
  • “Potential Old Nubian Cognates for Meroitic aleqese.” Sudan & Nubia 24 (2020): 292–300 (with Gilda Ferrandino).
  • “Three Bilingual Greek–Old Nubian Psalms from Dongola (DP 2–4).“ Orientalia 89, no. 2 (2020): 287–316 (with Adam Łajtar).
  • “Finding Old Nubian, Or, Why We Should Divest from Western Tongues.” postmedieval 11, nos. 2–3 “Confessions” (2020): 301–9.
  • “Translating Greek to Old Nubian: Reading between the lines of Ps.-Chrysostom’s In venerabilem crucem sermo.” In Caught in Translation: Versions of Late-Antique Christian Literature, edited by D. Batovici & M. Toca. Brill, 2020 (with Alexandros Tsakos).
  • “Rubrication Patterns in Two Old Nubian Texts from Serra East.” Études & Travaux XXXII (2019): 99–110 (with Alexandros Tsakos).
  • “For Sale: Geography in Old Nubian Land Sales.” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 6 (2019): 89–111.
  • “Subject Clitics: New Evidence from Old Nubian.” Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3, no. 1, art. 7 (2018).
  • “A Dance for a Princess: The Legends on a Painting in Room 5 of the SW Annex of the Monastery on Kom H in Old Dongola.” The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 47 (2017): 117–35.
  • The Old Nubian Manuscripts from Attiri. Dotawo Monograph 1. punctum books, 2016 (with Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney, Giovanni Ruffini, Alexandros Tsakos, Kerstin Weber-Thum, and Petra Weschenfelder).

Scholarly Communication

  • “Scenes: Punctum Books: An Interview with Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei and Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy.” American Book Review 45, no. 2 (2024): 168–73 (with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy).
  • “Antagonize This! The Empty Signification of ‘Academy-Owned’ Publishing in the Neoliberal University.” punctum books, November 12, 2024 (with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy).
  • “What Is Your Threshold? The Economics of Open Access Scholarly Book Publishing, the ‘Business’ of Care, and the Case of punctum books.” Journal of Electronic Publishing 26, no. 1 (2023) (with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy).
  • “A Vision Statement for Thinking, Writing, and Publishing Otherwise in the University without Condition.” punctum books, January 18, 2022 (with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy).
  • “Viral Open Access in Times of a Global Pandemic.” punctum books, March 19, 2020.
  • “Publishing as Activism: punctum books, Aaron Swartz, and the Medieval Sudan.” punctum books, July 5, 2017.

Translations

  • Allemann, Urs. Babyneuker. Het balanseer, 2026.
  • Tagame, Gengoroh. The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame, Volume 2. Edited by Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins. Fantagraphics, 2022.
  • Wijnberg, Nachoem M. The Jews. punctum books, 2016.
  • Hamacher, Werner. “95 stellingen over filologie.” nY 23 (2014): 49–80.
  • Daive, Jean. “Narration of Equilibrium 4: W (selection).” comma, poetry (2013).
  • Mettes, Jeroen. “Political Poetry: A Few Notes. Poetics for N30.” continent 2, no. 1 (2012): 29–35. Reprinted in Tripwire 7 (2014): 26–46.
  • Ronell, Avital. Autoriteit de macht ontnemen. Witte de With, 2012.
  • Daive, Jean. “Vertelling van evenwicht 2: ‘Sllt’ (selectie).” Parmentier 21, no. 2 (2012): 72–81.
  • Guibert, Hervé. “De honden.” nY 12 (2012): 590–605.
  • De Francesco, Alessandro. “Herdefinitie (fragmenten).” Parmentier 20, no. 4 (2011): 94–99 (with Swan Ien Oei).
  • Raaijmakers, Dick. The Destructive Character. Onomatopee, 2011.
  • Raaijmakers, Dick. Method. Onomatopee, 2009.