After 20 years of work, my experimental novel called Five Strange Languages is being published by Unnamed Press. It’s a large, complex project in five volumes. Lots more information here (scroll down).
Pages with information about the novel update live. Please send all questions & comments to jelkins@saic.edu.
Recent uploads of academic work: the books Pictures and Tears, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?, How to Use Your Eyes, and an essay on the complicity between torture and formal analysis. Another entire book free, on Academia: What is Interesting Writing in Art History? It’s on ways to write experimental art history.
I have put 75 short videos on art theory to Youtube. These are for art students. They cover media, politics, gender, the sublime, skill, formal analysis, craft, time, narrative, Eurocentrism, style, research, the body… lots of subjects.