punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion

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!

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@jofitz.bsky.social @jordyfindanis.bsky.social @rupertgatti.bsky.social

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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...

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:

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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

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

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!

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.

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!

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The End of Italy's Asylums • Raymond Depardon • Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

Photograph in first post above is by Raymond Depardon who visited Basaglia &co.'s hospital in Trieste, Italy in 1977 and took a series of beautiful, haunting photographs, all with the patients' permission: www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...

The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot – review Dangerous idealist or revolutionary hero? A nuanced look at a reforming psychiatrist

‪THE NEGATED INSTITUTION was first published in 1968 in Italian & caused an immediate sensation. It was an instant bestseller & was translated into numerous languages but never English, until now. As a result, psych hospitals were outlawed in Italy with the 1978 Basaglia law.

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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.

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Flugschriften is the brain-child of Dominic Pettman and Carla Nappi and there are quite a few titles in their "wee" catalog you might dig.

The Holy See by Vilém Flusser Visit the post for more.

Have you ever seen this? flugschriften.com/2019/03/19/t...

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.

WORD.

The End of Italy's Asylums • Raymond Depardon • Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

Photograph from asylum in Italy: www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...

The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot – review Dangerous idealist or revolutionary hero? A nuanced look at a reforming psychiatrist

“The Negated Institution” was first published in 1968 in Italian & caused an immediate sensation. It was an instant bestseller & was translated into numerous languages but never English, until now. As a result, psych hospitals were outlawed in Italy with the 1978 Basaglia law.

tinyurl.com/3hap56v8

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

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. 🎉🥳🍾

YOUR PORN NAME??!!??

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

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

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

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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

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.

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,…

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.

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#OAWeek #books #AI #publishing

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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