Thrown unprepared by the Covid-19 pandemic into an online class halfway through the Spring 2020 semester, the Poetics Lab students rethought their collaborative play/project ideas to work online.  We were inspired by what turned out to be possible - such as by the living palimpsest that emerged from Matt Loudon's collaborative collage exercise (using the Google Jamboard app). 

ghosts is a childhood memoir of the first decade of Tanzanian socialism. Written by a Tanzanian Asian, ghosts is a book of mourning, of lost lives, forgotten revolutions, and disrupted childhoods. ghosts is a journey into the junctures between memory and history, between remembering and forgetting.

An archive of essays on PROMPTS AND PLAY in theory and creative practice - especially in trans-disciplinary contexts - intended as a resource for teachers, artists, designers, and writers.  Teachers and practitioners: we invite you to steal - and to contribute if you are so inspired.

We are often told that books will be co-evolving with digital technologies, but where are all the weird and promising mutations?  Poetics as a Theory of Everything is a digital cultural theory/philosophy book for a broad audience, featuring an innovative design, interactive scrolling and zooming illustrations, pop-up hypertextual asides, an embedded flip-book and video, and more.