Formal Shamanic Conduct: Zonal Installations in Supernatural Space stages an indisciplinary practice via non-standard deployment of set-theoretic and anthropologic artefacts as they are brought to bear upon two propositions: that “The human is an animal,” and that “The animal is a human.”

To convey ideas through the medium of images has always been the aim of those who are artists as well as thinkers in art history, and it is to a desire to give a sensuous environment to intellectual concepts that we owe Haladyn’s volume. This is a book that pictures 40 portraits of art and art historians.

In the enlivening tradition of the dramaturgy to “adapt a story to actable form,” Non Buddhist Mysticism presents a radical reorientation to “spiritual” practice.

This book is about the tension between how singular the manifestation of love is and what we assume, often wrongly, about the idea of togetherness. To know the difference means to know the heart of the other. To know the heart of man is, in fact, the highest, sages and artists tell us. But who has this gift? Lovers do. Lovers share a passion that exceeds common understanding, and yet their acting on it can be fraught.

A book of fragments and prose poetry celebrating what mothers try to pass on to their children: a sense of how to be grateful for the experiences in life that can be said to be not only beautiful but also significant in form.

A book written for the curious reader who might like to know what some of the greatest literary figures in Western literature are up to when they read the Tarot, or use divination as inspiration for their work. Italo Calvino, Robert Browning, W.B. Yeats, and Rachel Pollack gather in a concatenation of voices across the page; voices that the author traces as if using transparent paper, a good ink pen, and an occasional draw with the Tarot cards for the idea that baffles, or the philosophy that resists the gratuitous.

This bi-lingual book tells the story of an encounter with a place, Agger, on the West Coast of Denmark. After more than 20 years of visiting and of developing intimate relationships with the place, the author moved here to embark on a post-academic career, and to explore the sea.

This is a collection of essays that gathers the voices of both reputed veteran and young cartomancers. The book captures the heart of cartomancy through 21+1 snappy rules, delivered with martial arts aplomb in the form of manifestos.

This book depicts manifestations of folk magic, black magic, and practical magic as courage and everyday wisdom, and it demonstrates how reading cards can entice us to concrete magical action.

This book is about the art of reading the image, semiotics, and the poetics of cartomancy. Camelia Elias offers an introduction to the Marseille Tarot cards combined with readings of the cards in context. For each description there’s an interpretation that combines the cunning-folk method of reading the cards – based on making logical inferences about the meaning of the cards – and the visual argument method, which relies on the subjective and individual art of perceiving. The book also features full-length readings, based on real-life tarot consultations.

In Kant in Hong Kong travel, philosophy, and the city weave through one another. The book brings Immanuel Kant – famous for the regularity of his walks in his hometown of Königsberg – into the swarming streets of the hypermodern city and carries everyday urban experience into the labyrinthine texts of Kant’s critical idealism.

Cruel Theory | Sublime Practice consists of three parts. Each part addresses both theoretical and practical dimensions of Buddhism. Topics include the formation of an autonomous subject in the face of Buddhism’s concealment of its ideological force.

The Winds of Ilion is an eclectic work that brings together poetry, academic essay, personal memoir, short-short story, and creative fragments in a manner redolent both of the early German romantics and of the Greek concept of moira.

The Winds of Ilion is an eclectic work that brings together poetry, academic essay, personal memoir, short-short story, and creative fragments in a manner redolent both of the early German romantics and of the Greek concept of moira.

Tragic writing emerges as a representation of a sacrificial crisis that calls into question the human relation to the divine.

Reflections on philosophy, eros, and contemporary tragic drama.

The Acolytes depicts the yearning of the young artist for success, acceptance, fulfilment.

A book of fragments and prose poetry celebrating what mothers try to pass on to their children: a sense of how to be grateful for the experiences in life that can be said to be not only beautiful but also significant in form.

Pulverizing Portraits provides the first book-length study of contemporary American poet Lynn Emanuel.