forthcoming book: Nothing As We Need It (summer 2022)

I am publishing two books this year. The former, Nothing As We Need It, is forthcoming this summer on Risking Education, a new imprint of Punctum Books. Here is a preview of the book on Punctum’s website, I will post more around the project over the next few months:

Nothing As We Need It

A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras – December contributions

A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras continues on MAP magazine. This month you can read:

A Lichen, A Spell, my response to last month’s texts by Tristan Foster and Vivian Darroch-Lozowski.

The Book and The Lattice by Richard Skelton.

-zoic by Tomoé Hill.

A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras

A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras is a series I am developing in my new role as Commissioning Editor at MAP magazine.

My first editorial is here.

You can also read the first two commissions: 

The Dreamer I and The Dreamer II, by Tristan Foster

and 

The Unsaid by Vivian Darroch-Lozowski.

You can follow the series by subscribing to MAP’s newsletter (top right corner on website), or by following MAP on Twitter @MAP_magazine, Instagram @map_magazine, and Facebook. 

…cerchi? Cerchi (…you search? Circles) in Reliquiae

‘…cerchi? Cerchi (… you search? Circles)’ is published in Reliquiae Vol. 9 No. 2.

It is an initial attempt at working with and from the monumental anthology I mistici dell’Occidente (Western Mystics), edited by Elémire Zolla in the 1960s, with interferences by Cristina Campo, Dante, Jean Genet, Djuna Barnes, Vivian Darroch-Lozowski among others.

It was prompted by reading a page in Cristina Campo:

And from there, spinning thoughts and words from other books as I always do.

Singed now shipping from the UK

Singed is now shipping from the UK, with no added taxes or import duty for UK residents:

https://icrdistribution.com/collections/books/products/daniela-cascella-singed-paperback

My Chimera / The Yellow Paper

My Chimera, a text which merges and rewrites excerpts from my two forthcoming books Nothing As We Need It (Punctum Books / Risking Education, 2022) and Chimeras (Sublunary Editions, 2022), is now published in The Yellow Paper n.2, edited by Laura Haynes for the Art Writing Programme at the Glasgow School of Art.

Fields of Heaven and Meteorites (for Signe Lidén) / VOLT

Fields of Heaven and Meteorites is a text I wrote in 2016 in response to an installation by Signe Lidén, for The Imaginary Reader anthology pubished by VOLT in Bergen. It is now available online on VOLT’s new website. You can read it here.

A Bell for Cristina in Glossator 11, Cristina Campo: Translation / Commentary

‘A Bell for Cristina’ was an early attempt, three years ago, at writing around the work of Cristina Campo (a fundamental presence in my reading and writing, thinking and being) avoiding the monographic study – thinking of transcelation as hearing in reading – writing a cadence rather than a topic, holding the confusion of sources in reading across languages.

It is published in Glossator 11, Cristina Campo: Translation / Commentary, edited by Nicola Masciandaro and Andrea di Serego Alighieri.

Volumes in Firmament

My essay ‘Volumes’ is published in Firmament Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by Jessica Sequeira for Sublunary Editions.

A version of this text will be included in Nothing As We Need It, forthcoming on Punctum Books / Risking Education in 2022 – this is the first of two books (and future projects) around the idea and the form of chimeric writing.

Writing (the view from above)