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punctum books is a queer, scholar-led Open Access press devoted to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library & funded by university libraries across the globe. https://punctumbooks.com
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Happy BIRTHDAY to PUNCTUM!
WE'RE 14 & still TWEEN-ing it! punctum books, a scholar-led & queer-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since.
Help us celebrate 🎉🥳🍾by becoming a subscriber!
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WE'RE 14 & still TWEEN-ing it! punctum books, a scholar-led & queer-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since.
Help us celebrate 🎉🥳🍾by becoming a subscriber!
punctumbooks.com/support/
Who remembers Frank Rosenblat & his Perceptron, forgotten figures in the #queer history of computing & symbolic #AI?
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. Out today #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. Out today #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Who remembers Frank Rosenblat & his Perceptron, forgotten figures in the #queer history of computing & symbolic #AI?
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. Out today #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. Out today #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
God is spicy today. 🌶️
President Criminal arrested the former FBI chief but his case got dismissed because he hired a bimbo he wants to bang as the prosecutor and she had no idea wha the fuck she was doing,
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
God is spicy today. 🌶️
Before #AI there was Frank Rosenblatt's Perceptron, the origin of much neural network technology & misunderstood in its own time.
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Before #AI there was Frank Rosenblatt's Perceptron, the origin of much neural network technology & misunderstood in its own time.
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
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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 more about punctum's new Accessibility Roadmap for making our books & website more accessible for all readers:
tinyurl.com/yapbh9ej
READ more about punctum's new Accessibility Roadmap for making our books & website more accessible for all readers:
tinyurl.com/yapbh9ej
Advancing Accessibility in Open Access Publishing
When it [accessibility] is embedded in the culture, it reinforces the mission of serving all readers. It’s not a checkbox; it’s a strategic, forward-looking commitment and means knowledge can be equal...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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 more about punctum's new Accessibility Roadmap for making our books & website more accessible for all readers:
tinyurl.com/yapbh9ej
READ more about punctum's new Accessibility Roadmap for making our books & website more accessible for all readers:
tinyurl.com/yapbh9ej
Advancing Accessibility in Open Access Publishing
When it [accessibility] is embedded in the culture, it reinforces the mission of serving all readers. It’s not a checkbox; it’s a strategic, forward-looking commitment and means knowledge can be equal...
tinyurl.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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 more about punctum's new Accessibility Roadmap for making our books & website more accessible for all readers:
tinyurl.com/yapbh9ej
READ more about punctum's new Accessibility Roadmap for making our books & website more accessible for all readers:
tinyurl.com/yapbh9ej
How do we STEP DOWN from humanist supremacist pedestals, UNDO our dependency on unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism & STOP the heteroreproduction of a species that has become plague?
Your manual:
Jayme de Val's ONTOHACKERS, #OpenAccess & FREE to read:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
Your manual:
Jayme de Val's ONTOHACKERS, #OpenAccess & FREE to read:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How do we STEP DOWN from humanist supremacist pedestals, UNDO our dependency on unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism & STOP the heteroreproduction of a species that has become plague?
Your manual:
Jayme de Val's ONTOHACKERS, #OpenAccess & FREE to read:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
Your manual:
Jayme de Val's ONTOHACKERS, #OpenAccess & FREE to read:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
How do we STEP DOWN from humanist supremacist pedestals, UNDO our dependency upon unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism & STOP the heteroreproduction of a species that has become a plague? We have the manual.
Jaime de Val's ONTOHACKERS, 3 vols., #OpenAccess:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
Jaime de Val's ONTOHACKERS, 3 vols., #OpenAccess:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
How do we STEP DOWN from humanist supremacist pedestals, UNDO our dependency upon unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism & STOP the heteroreproduction of a species that has become a plague? We have the manual.
Jaime de Val's ONTOHACKERS, 3 vols., #OpenAccess:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
Jaime de Val's ONTOHACKERS, 3 vols., #OpenAccess:
tinyurl.com/3uvrmb8s
Collective funding for Diamond #OpenAccess books in action! Libraries who support the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social made the Collective Development Fund possible, which awards micro-grants to smaller OA operations to start up or improve their technical & other capacities.
VIVE la Diamond OA!
VIVE la Diamond OA!
The Open Book Collective is delighted to share a new update from our Collective Development Fund awardees at Chinhoyi University of Technology Library: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/second-u...
Update on OBC's Second Collective Development Fund Award: Enhancing Open Access Book Publishing at Chinhoyi University of Technology Library
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Collective funding for Diamond #OpenAccess books in action! Libraries who support the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social made the Collective Development Fund possible, which awards micro-grants to smaller OA operations to start up or improve their technical & other capacities.
VIVE la Diamond OA!
VIVE la Diamond OA!
NYTimes headline: Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
We really want to know @nytimes.com: what the literal HELL is wrong with you? Laugh, cry, rage?!? Who knows anymore.
BETTER: Epstein Told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump Knew He Was a Pedophile
HASHTAG BURN IT DOWN.
We really want to know @nytimes.com: what the literal HELL is wrong with you? Laugh, cry, rage?!? Who knows anymore.
BETTER: Epstein Told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump Knew He Was a Pedophile
HASHTAG BURN IT DOWN.
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
NYTimes headline: Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
We really want to know @nytimes.com: what the literal HELL is wrong with you? Laugh, cry, rage?!? Who knows anymore.
BETTER: Epstein Told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump Knew He Was a Pedophile
HASHTAG BURN IT DOWN.
We really want to know @nytimes.com: what the literal HELL is wrong with you? Laugh, cry, rage?!? Who knows anymore.
BETTER: Epstein Told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump Knew He Was a Pedophile
HASHTAG BURN IT DOWN.
punctum books is now dumpling books & the co-directors are now the Ninja 🥷 & the Dumpling 🥟 . All books are steamed or pan-fried and served with chili 🌶️ crisp. Because our books are spicy and if you don’t agree, the Ninja will convince you otherwise. YUM!
Tshirt available here: tinyurl.com/mr296jw5
Tshirt available here: tinyurl.com/mr296jw5
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
punctum books is now dumpling books & the co-directors are now the Ninja 🥷 & the Dumpling 🥟 . All books are steamed or pan-fried and served with chili 🌶️ crisp. Because our books are spicy and if you don’t agree, the Ninja will convince you otherwise. YUM!
Tshirt available here: tinyurl.com/mr296jw5
Tshirt available here: tinyurl.com/mr296jw5
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
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
HUZZAH! Community-led #OpenAccess book platforms that attend, not to scale, but to systems designed for resiliency and bibliodiversity will not only succeed, but are already succeeding. We helped build the OBC & we're proud as hell of it.
🥳 The Open Book Collective is delighted to announce the first recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–2026! 🥳
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
HUZZAH! Community-led #OpenAccess book platforms that attend, not to scale, but to systems designed for resiliency and bibliodiversity will not only succeed, but are already succeeding. We helped build the OBC & we're proud as hell of it.
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
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
punctum books, founded in Brooklyn in 2011, celebrates Mamdani’s victory in NYC. To the 1M+ NYC voters who said they would leave the city if he won, please don’t let the door hit you on the way out. 🎉🥳🍾
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
punctum books, founded in Brooklyn in 2011, celebrates Mamdani’s victory in NYC. To the 1M+ NYC voters who said they would leave the city if he won, please don’t let the door hit you on the way out. 🎉🥳🍾
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Can confirm — Livy and @openbookcollective.bsky.social have some great swag! Head to booth 29 to learn about “the most gorgeous metadata management system” and pick up a tote bag #chsconf2025 #charleston2025
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Can confirm — Livy and @openbookcollective.bsky.social have some great swag! Head to booth 29 to learn about “the most gorgeous metadata management system” and pick up a tote bag #chsconf2025 #charleston2025
punctum’s headquarters for the Charleston Conference! #chsconf2025
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
punctum’s headquarters for the Charleston Conference! #chsconf2025
The Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social is LIVE at the Charleston Conference from 10am to 5pm today! Come chat all things community-led #OpenAccess book publishing with Livy Snyder & Eileen Joy.
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social is LIVE at the Charleston Conference from 10am to 5pm today! Come chat all things community-led #OpenAccess book publishing with Livy Snyder & Eileen Joy.
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
In the age of extinction, when AI bots have swarmed the ramparts, trillionaires head for off-planet bunkers & our dependency upon unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism has hobbled us, this is your survival manual.
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
November 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In the age of extinction, when AI bots have swarmed the ramparts, trillionaires head for off-planet bunkers & our dependency upon unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism has hobbled us, this is your survival manual.
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
Enable #OpenAccess books to fly around the world & be accessible to everyone, no matter their means, by becoming a punctum subscriber!
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
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November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Enable #OpenAccess books to fly around the world & be accessible to everyone, no matter their means, by becoming a punctum subscriber!
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
Heck yeah! CONGRATS Internet Archive!
HAPPENING TODAY! 🌐🎨
Celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived on the #WaybackMachine through art: Internet Archive x @GrayArea.org: Trillionth Webpage Net․Art Commissions.
📅 Sat, Nov 1
🕗 5–8 PM PT
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1872604563...
#Wayback1T
Celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived on the #WaybackMachine through art: Internet Archive x @GrayArea.org: Trillionth Webpage Net․Art Commissions.
📅 Sat, Nov 1
🕗 5–8 PM PT
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1872604563...
#Wayback1T
November 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Heck yeah! CONGRATS Internet Archive!
It’s #NationalCatDay and we’re remembering Lucy, punctum’s office muse, who sailed to Valhalla this past July at the age of 17. She didn’t break the mold; she was the mold.
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It’s #NationalCatDay and we’re remembering Lucy, punctum’s office muse, who sailed to Valhalla this past July at the age of 17. She didn’t break the mold; she was the mold.
For #OpenAccess Week, our director Eileen Joy sat down with punctum authors Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social & Nicolette Bragg to talk together about the university, open publishing, AI, creativity, community, and who owns our knowledge.
vimeo.com/1129602616
#OAWeek #books #AI #publishing
vimeo.com/1129602616
#OAWeek #books #AI #publishing
Encounters at the End of the Book | Who Owns Our Knowledge? A conversation with punctum authors
As part of Open Access Week 2025, punctum books hosted a conversation between authors Matt Cheney and Lette Bragg, alongside punctum director Eileen Fradenburg Joy,…
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October 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
For #OpenAccess Week, our director Eileen Joy sat down with punctum authors Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social & Nicolette Bragg to talk together about the university, open publishing, AI, creativity, community, and who owns our knowledge.
vimeo.com/1129602616
#OAWeek #books #AI #publishing
vimeo.com/1129602616
#OAWeek #books #AI #publishing
Enable #OpenAccess books to fly around the world & be accessible to everyone, no matter their means, by becoming a punctum books subscriber!
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the SPARKLY MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the SPARKLY MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
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ALT: a black and white photo of a ufo flying through the sky .
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October 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Enable #OpenAccess books to fly around the world & be accessible to everyone, no matter their means, by becoming a punctum books subscriber!
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the SPARKLY MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the SPARKLY MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
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Currently agreeing harder than ever with Vincent van Gerven Oei (@punctumbooks.bsky.social & @thoth-metadata.bsky.social).
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Currently agreeing harder than ever with Vincent van Gerven Oei (@punctumbooks.bsky.social & @thoth-metadata.bsky.social).
Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!
October 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!