speculative relations

Introducing the Introduction

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Joseph M. Pierce

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Introducing the Introduction

I received an email from Duke UP this week letting me know that the introduction to Speculative Relations is now posted on the website. I’m thrilled. Stoked. Insanely nervous and happy about this!!!!!!

Which means: you can now read the introduction. (And pre-order at 30% off with the discount code: E25JMPRC).

I’ll read some from the introduction myself below. But before that I wanted to share two things about what it feels like to be this close to having the book in the wild. To have part of it already in the wild.

  1. I wrote this book because I want people to read it. I want to know what people think and if the ideas are useful to them. I want the book to be a way of thinking collectively about Indigenous worlding (which I described in a previous post—)

    Worlding, a definition
    I promised only a monthly reminder about Speculative Relations, and the time has come for our three month countdown. You can pre-order HERE. Share it with a friend?
    Indigiqueer ConfidentialJoseph M. Pierce

  2. Some of this book has been done for a years. Done, as in, not changed, not edited. The process of publishing an academic book takes a long time, and I haven’t substantively edited the book in at least one year. I know for certain that I would write some things differently now. But that’s life. That’s what it means to be a writer. We write and we let go. We hope, pray, that the book as it is makes its way to a reader who reads. And in that reading, finds something moving, thrilling, devastating, interesting (trite though it is), provocative, delightful, aching, true. Something that changes the way the reader thinks, that provokes new thoughts and feelings. New affect. New bodily orientations. New RELATIONS.

I don’t know what will happen once the book fully makes it out there, in physical form, a big bright yellow shining book in your hands. But I know that the definitions and ideas that gave rise to the book are in the Introduction, and if you want to take a look, go ahead. Get on it. And feel free to share your feelings :)

PS I’ll be at NAISA in OKC next week if you want to say hi or hang!

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