“No One Does Anything!”: Hegemonic Knowledge and Everyday Oppression By Marcelo Kuna Half the stories of the world are left unwritten, Half the stories of the world are kept unread, And so the people of the world will never notice What disasters unprevented lie ahead. Jason Robert Brown’s lyrics for Read more
Mucho, Mucho, Mucho Amor, For the Planet By Whitney A. Bauman I have been thinking about planetary erotics lately. By that I mean the love of bodies, internal and external to us. As David Abrams suggests, biology and the biosphere are all only possible because of that most basic attraction Read more
Yes and No to Pride, Fifty Years after Stonewall By Anna Mercedes Fifty years after Stonewall—the historic uprising begun in response to a police raid of a gay bar in New York City that launched the gay rights movement—I can walk into my local department store and find a Gay Read more
Following Whitney A. Bauman’s Meaningful Flesh, we are happy to announce another contribution for the Counterpoint community, also published with Punctum Books. Queer Ancient Ways by Zairong Xiang, member of our Advisory Board, will be out in fall. Congratulations! Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as Read more
Ten Theses on Academia, Society, and the Planetary Future: A Counterpoint Manifesto by Whitney A. Bauman & Kocku von Stuckrad [For a German version of this manifesto, please click here.] 1. The so-called “Anthropocene” is the result of several thousand years of human thought-regimes that emphasize human domination and exceptionalism. Read more
Punctum Books (2018) This volume, edited by Whitney A. Bauman, has just been published by Punctum Books. Please check out the description below and share with those in your networks who might be interested. Religion is much queerer than we ever imagined. Nature is as well. These are the two Read more