Antinormative Interpretation

This year my book Antinormative Interpretation was finally published (by Palgrave Macmillan). I am really excited about this, because the book is exciting and really new. The book explores the idea of taking tools from scientific inquiry and modeling and using them to articulate spaces of artistic practice. I'm a linguist working in formal semantics and pragmatics, so that's the toolkit I repurpose for artistic activity here; since my field(s) use mathematical tools to map and understand the space of linguistic meaning and interpretation, the result is a kind of reconceptualization of how one can go about assigning meanings and giving interpretations in the first place, and as such is a way of giving a mathematical model of certain kinds of conceptual art. The specific kind of art explored in the book is experimental literature. I show how one can (for example) build interpretative systems that give meanings to all sorts of structures outside the bounds of `normal' grammar, or which change the meanings of specific words or terms, or more generally enable one to alter one's interpretative stance by entering a different body. The book therefore points to a larger practice of interpretative modification, and along the way yields a number of linguistic insights with empirical scientific application too.