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Selected Articles in Books and Journals:
‘The Transgressive Turn: American Writing
of the late 1980s and early 1990s’, Borderlines: Studies in American Culture,
2. 4 (1995) pp. 331-350.
‘Interpreting Architecture:
‘The Many Deaths of Emily Dickinson’, The Emily Dickinson Journal, VI.1 (1997) pp. 25-43.
*Top ten and
often most-frequently down-loaded article on ED in 2010-12. Most frequently
down-loaded in 2014 (Project MUSE).
*Recommended by Literary History and Perspectives in American Literature (PAL)
on-line research resources.
‘The Incest Theme in American Writing: Two
Hundred Years in the Life of a Literary Motif’, Borderlines: Studies in American Culture,
4. 4 (1997) pp. 358-380.
‘Ritual, Sacrifice & Identity in
Recent Political Drama’, Journal
of Dramatic Theory & Criticism, XV.1 (2000) pp.
21-42.
*Recommended
reading for English Degree at
‘When Space is Time: The Rhetoric of
Eternity: Hierarchy & Narrative in Late-medieval and Renaissance Art’, in Gerhard
Jaritz & Gerson Moreno-Riano
(eds.), Time and Eternity: The Medieval
Discourse, selected papers from the International Medieval Congress, Leeds
2000 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols,
2003) pp. 403-426.
‘Ritual & Identity in Twentieth
Century American Drama’, Journal
of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, XIX.2 (2005) pp. 43-70.
‘Light & Time: Vision, Image, Other’, in Jacopo Benci, Lontana et luminoso (BSR publications,
‘Black and White Photography in China: Time as
Aesthetic Genre’ / 黑白摄影在中国：时间的修辞艺术作为一种文艺流派的定义, Pixel: Journal of Photography, 5 (2010).
‘Moments of Ritual Displacement, Strategies of
Being Lost’/
‘具有仪式感的替代时刻：“迷失”的策略’ in GB: MEP, Paris Exhibition
Catalogue. Languages: Chinese
& English/英文，中文. Translation：欧阳宜文。(中国民族摄影艺术出版社，2016/ China Nationality Art Photography Publishing House,
2016).
‘Moments of Ritual Displacement, Strategies of
Being Lost’/ ‘Instants
de déplacement rituel : stratégies de l’être-perdu’
in GB:
MEP Paris Exhibition Catalogue (Maison European de la Photographie:
Contrasto, Artron, 2016).
Books:
Mimesis:
Architecture, the Beautiful & Sublime (Hypsosis Press, 2008).
The Industrial Aesthetic: 798 &
D-Park (Hypsosis Press, 2009) with
photographs by Yu Fengge. Limited Edition.
A Rhetoric of Time in the Arts:
Entropy, Eternity & Utopia in Visual Culture (Lambert Academic Press, 2011).
Mimesis/Anti-Mimesis (GRIN Verlag, 2013). 2nd
Ed.
William Faulkner: An Aesthetics of
Transgression (Hypsosis, Amazon, 2014).
On Being Human: Twelve Meditations
with an Afterword on ‘Boredom’ (GRIN Verlag, 2014).
The Industrial Aesthetic: 798 &
D-Park (Hypsosis, Amazon, 2014). Photography: Yu Fengge.
Bilingual; Chinese Translation by Yang Hang.
黑白照片的理论：黑白摄影在中国 (中国民族摄影艺术出版社，2016).
A Theory of Black and White
Photography:
Black and White Photography in China (China Nationality Art Photography
Publishing House, 2016). Languages: Chinese & English/中英. Fully Illustrated.
(Visiting)The Places of the Dead: A
Philosophy of Travel, (Hypsosis, Amazon, 2017).
Language and Logic; Temporality,
Metaset, Recursion, (Hypsosis, Amazon, 2017).
Mimesis/Anti-Mimesis, 3rd.Ed. (Hypsosis, Amazon, 2018).
On Being Human: Twelve Meditations
with an Afterword on ‘Boredom’, 2nd.Ed. (Hypsosis, Amazon, 2018).
Chinese Gardens: Poetics, Aesthetics and the Four Seasons /中国园林：诗意/审美与四季 (China Nationality Culture Publishing
House/中国民族文化出版社 (2019). Chinese /中/英). Photography: Hong Lei/ 摄影:洪磊. *Winner of ‘This
Year’s Top Ten Books’ award, China Photography Magazine.
Short-listed for, ‘Most Beautiful Book in China’ award.
黑白照片的理论：黑白摄影在中国,
中国民族文化出版社，再版(2019).
A Theory of Black and White
Photography:
Black and White Photography in China (China Nationality Culture
Publishing House, Second Edition, 2020). Languages: Chinese & English/中英. Fully Illustrated.
The Double Economy: and Other Essays
on Diremption. Vols I & II (Hypsosis,
Amazon, 2021).
Subtitle: ‘Disjunctive Reciprocity (Knowledge
at its Limits). Diremptive Isomorphisms:
Contraries and Parallelisms in the Sciences, Thought, Art and Culture. On describing and representing the world
in a non-unified field or divided manifold’.
Rituality:
‘Return of Gift’ and other Essays on ‘Gift Exchange’ in
the Modern World.
(Hypsosis, Amazon, 2024).
The Double Economy: and Other Essays on Diremption. Vol III (Hypsosis,
Amazon, 2024).
Comparative Art: East & West / 比较艺术：西方与东方 (广西师范大学/ Guanxi
Teaching University Press, 2025).
Film:
Chongqing: The Disappeared City/
重庆：消失的城市 (2020).
Photography by 蔡蔡/Sophie Cai. Full
length film (in three parts) now available in English and Chinese on the Bilibili Web Portal. Rough-cut also released,
episode by episode, weekly, over 6 months: comprising 3 trailers and 23
episodes. For all versions (as well as other video works by Sophie and Peter)
go to: https://space.bilibili.com/514299554 : also on Vimeo & Instagram (on
Peter’s account).
Short Films:
With Nikita Sandul: Ancestral Voices (2023) Nikita Sandul, director and editor; script by Peter Nesteruk; voiceover by Matthew Crampton. Also
on YouTube (on Matthew’s account).
With Sophie Cai:
Stone (English version) & 石头 (中文) (2021).
Nan Shan Garden (English version) & 南山花园 (中文) (2022).
Heaven is Boring/天坛是无聊 (2020).
Selected Others (Reviews, Exhibition Texts):
Review,
Jacqueline Rose, The Haunting of Sylvia
Plath, in Over Here: Reviews in
American Studies, 12.1 (1992).
‘Reality
& its Shadow’ (video by Jacopo Benci),
programme/press release, F-EST Europe Video Art Festival, London (2003).
‘writ
in water’, in
writ in water: Ode to Mutability ,
Silvia Stucky (Keats-Shelley House,
‘Lost Dreams’/失梦园 Preface to Lost Childhood,
Images by Yu Fengge (Beijing, 2008).
‘Emptying Space in the Fullness of Time’
Preface to Passing Time, Images by Yu
Fengge (
‘The Ghost in the Machine’ Photographs by
Li Yaning. Text: Silent
Spaces exhibition, Jing Guang Gallery,
‘Black, White and Blue’, Preface to Happy City, Images by Yu Fengge (
‘Lakes and Pools/The Space Above Water’/在水一方. Curator and featured text, Peter Nesteruk. Photography: Yu Fengge.
Translation: Yang Hang. Calligraphy: Li Yaning. Zha Zha Gallery,
Copyright 2009, 2016, Peter Nesteruk