Imagining What We Don't Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies

Lisa Samuels
punctum books
2026-02-23

Bringing together perception, ecology, community, lingual value, and quantum life, Imagining What We Don’t Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies presents twenty-four essays and theory poems that blend interpretive neologisms — wild dialectics, distributed centrality, membranism, deformance, bioautography, transplace, soft text, and more — with readings of visionary philosophers and the art and writing of Algeria, Australasia, the Caribbean, Oceania, the UK, and the US.

Committed to experimental ideation and relational ethics, Imagining What We Don’t Know is for art and theory practitioners, philosophy rebels, creative writers, and anyone who relishes thinking about contemporary art, transnational and transdisciplinary life, and how we imagine with language. Imagining What We Don’t Know presents a biblio-architecture of “blurprints” built with theories of the embodied mind that are elemental, entangled, and electrified by the political. This is creative theory, hovering with alterities of art and interpretation and imagining with critical attention.

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  • Environmentalist thought and ideology
  • ethics
  • poetry
  • quantum life
  • theory
  • Philosophy
  • Fabulations
  • Art+Aesthetics
  • art
  • Phenomenology & Existentialism
  • Environmentalist thought & ideology
  • Applied ecology
  • Phenomenology and Existentialism
  • Phenomenology and Existentialism
  • ecology
  • phenomenology

Imagining What We Don't Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies

Lisa Samuels

punctum books

2026-02-23

CC BY-NC-SA

Bringing together perception, ecology, community, lingual value, and quantum life, Imagining What We Don’t Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies presents twenty-four essays and theory poems that blend interpretive neologisms — wild dialectics, distributed centrality, membranism, deformance, bioautography, transplace, soft text, and more — with readings of visionary philosophers and the art and writing of Algeria, Australasia, the Caribbean, Oceania, the UK, and the US.

Committed to experimental ideation and relational ethics, Imagining What We Don’t Know is for art and theory practitioners, philosophy rebels, creative writers, and anyone who relishes thinking about contemporary art, transnational and transdisciplinary life, and how we imagine with language. Imagining What We Don’t Know presents a biblio-architecture of “blurprints” built with theories of the embodied mind that are elemental, entangled, and electrified by the political. This is creative theory, hovering with alterities of art and interpretation and imagining with critical attention.

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Topics

  • Environmentalist thought and ideology
  • ethics
  • poetry
  • quantum life
  • theory
  • Philosophy
  • Fabulations
  • Art+Aesthetics
  • art
  • Phenomenology & Existentialism
  • Environmentalist thought & ideology
  • Applied ecology
  • Phenomenology and Existentialism
  • Phenomenology and Existentialism
  • ecology
  • phenomenology