This week punctum books released my book A Cyborg’s Father: Misreading Donna Haraway. This book means a lot to me. This book is many things. It is poetry, essay, image. It’s an intensely personal accounting of caring for my daughter after she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as an infant. It is a consideration of the cyborg form—medical, musical, transhumanist—and a working through how I, as a father, might help my daughter navigate her own experience of living as a flesh-machine hybrid. It is my attempt to think about chronic illness and disability and feminism in terms of my relationship with her. It is an attempt, nothing more—in this space attempt is the only word I am able to lay claim to.
punctum is an open-access press, so the book is available as a free downloadable pdf, if you would like to take a look (if you access it in this format I would encourage using a pdf reader (Preview, or Acrobat) and selecting the two-page viewing format—portions of it will make more sense that way). If you have the means, I would encourage you to support punctum by purchasing a copy. Small presses like punctum books are doing the vital work of pushing the wide and vibrant and strange spectrum of voices we are out into the world.
If you’d like a review copy, feel free to contact me at davdjohn@gmail.com.
Thanks for reading,