The Kármán Line Book Launch

The Tamarind Institute invites you to the New Mexico launch of The Kármán Line (2024) by Daisy Atterbury, University of New Mexico. Featuring scholars and writers Naima Yael Tokunow, Jennifer Denetdale, Lucy Lippard and Francisco Gallarte, and sponsored by the University of New Mexico’s Department of American Studies, Program of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Feminist Research Institute.

Described as “a new cosmology” (Lucy Lippard) and “a cerebral altar to the desert” (Raquel Gutiérrez), The Kármán Line is a hybrid-genre book that investigates queer life and fantasies of space and place with an interest in unraveling colonial narratives in the American Southwest. Named for the mathematical and juridical boundary that divides Earth from outer space, the Kármán line describes the altitude at which outer space begins and national airspace ends, or where the body in flight achieves orbit.

Thursday, Novemver 7, 5-7 pm