Art & Culture 2024
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Organizing Color
Toward a Chromatics of the Social Timon Beyes “Organizing is often imagined as a functional concept that belongs in business schools. In this beautifully written and illustrated book, Timon Beyes sprinkles aesthetics and politics over this black and white picture. The result is a breathtaking work that will change the way we understand how to 'see' organization.”—Martin Parker, University of Bristol STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media March 2024 292pp 9781503638617 £25.99 PB
Breaking the Bronze Ceiling
Women, Memory, and Public Space Edited by Valentina Rozas-Krause & Andrew M. Shanken Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Berkeley Forum in the Humanities May 2024 71 b&w illus. 272pp 9781531506391 £25.99 PB
Aeffect
The Affect and Effect of Artistic Activism Stephen Duncombe Aeffect is rich with examples that demonstrate successful artistic activism, including Undocubus, an old bus painted “No Fear” across its side that was driven crosscountry by a group of undocumented immigrant activists; Journal Rappé, a video show created by Senegalese rappers who created long-form investigative reports by rapping the current news in French and Wolof; and War on Smog, a staged a public performance piece by artistic activists in the city of Chongqing in Southwest China. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2024 25 pieces of art and graphics 256pp 9781531506513 £25.99 PB
Camera Geologica An Elemental History of Photography Siobhan Angus
“A remarkable achievement. Unfolding across a wonderful selection of well-known and unfamiliar photographic works, Camera Geologica is an original, ingenious, and passionate investigation of photography’s mineral materiality and dependency.”— Christopher Pinney, coeditor of Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2024 55 illus., including 32 in color 328pp 9781478030188 £24.99 PB
A Theory of Assembly
Artifactual
"Kyle Parry's remarkable book offers an eclectic theory of assembly, shifting the focus from political theory to aesthetic and media practices. This is a wide-ranging and original work that keeps shifting angles to produce the sense of vibrant, if problematic, new constellations of the various assemblies that pervade contemporary life. Mindful of both the progressive and reactionary forms that assemblies can take, Parry probes the intensified circulation of digital assemblies in all their ambivalence."—Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
“Artifactual is a brilliant exploration of knowledge production through forensic science and documentary filmmaking in postwar Cyprus. Raising penetrating questions about knowledge and the making of truth and evidence in anthropology, Elizabeth Anne Davis makes significant contributions to the anthropologies of missing persons, forensics, and visual anthropology.”—Yael Navaro, author of The Make-Believe Space DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
From Museums to Memes Kyle Parry
Forensic and Documentary Knowing Elizabeth Anne Davis
January 2023 73 b&w illus. and 11 color plates 320pp 9781517913168 £25.99 PB
A Time of One's Own
Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art Catherine Grant “An original, associative and compelling account of archival fever and fandom in feminist practice … An exemplar for the ways we can, and should, learn together.”— Susannah Thompson, Art History In A Time of One’s Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2022 61 illus. 232pp 9781478018841 £21.99 PB
Series: Experimental Futures August 2023 55 color illus. 400pp 9781478019886 £26.99 PB
Bad Education
Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing Lee Edelman "Bad Education expands on Edelman’s widely influential claims in No Future, clarifying his framework and answering his critics. . . . Edelman doubles down on abstraction while engaging deeply with the work of recent Afro-pessimist critics. Refusing the charge that by pitching his argument at the level of structure rather than social reality he has disregarded race, Edelman instead argues that Blackness, like queerness, should be apprehended primarily as structure."Heather Love, Critical Inquiry DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Theory Q January 2023 105 illus. 368pp 9781478018629 £24.99 PB
Badiou by Badiou
Anteaesthetics
Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form Rizvana Bradley "In this brilliantly conceived and exquisitely rendered study, Bradley offers a pathbreaking analysis that will revolutionize how we approach, contest, and undo the Western visual field. Anteaesthetics offers an indispensable and undisciplined new frame for black feminist theorizing."—Huey Copeland, University of Pennsylvania STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics October 2023 406pp 9781503637139 £25.99 PB
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Alain Badiou Translated by Bruno Bosteels In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence of Truths. A veritable tour de force of pedagogical clarity, this new studentfriendly work is perhaps the single best general introduction to the work of this prolific and committed thinker. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Cultural Memory in the Present May 2022 96pp 9781503631762 £16.99 PB
Beyond the Sovereign Self
Code
“Beyond the Sovereign Self effectively melts down, then reimagines our stagnated concepts of aesthetic autonomy and avantgardism in a dauntless bid to retheorize the increasingly entangled, if not indistinguishable, realms of twenty-firstcentury social activism and art.”—Gregory Sholette, author of The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
the common inheritance shared by information theory and French Theory in the era of liberal technocracy, industrial capitalism, and colonial crisis will change how we think about the nature, risks, and possibilities of data analytics, critical theory, and the digital humanities now and for years to come."—Carolyn Pedwell, Theory, Culture & Society DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde From Information Theory to French Theory to Socially Engaged Art Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan Grant H. Kester "Geoghegan’s rich and surprising account of
December 2023 7 illus. 296pp 9781478025344 £23.99 PB
Breathing Aesthetics
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission January 2023 47 illus. 272pp 9781478019008 £22.99 PB
Communicology
Jean-Thomas Tremblay
“By closely studying the writings and performances of Dodie Bellamy, CAConrad, and Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose, Tremblay is attentive to breathing’s knotty role in the space of queer life in how it ‘organizes desire amid crises ranging from the personal to the planetary.’ Similarly, by surveying the Black and Indigenous feminist respiratory rituals outlined in the works of Toni Cade Bambara and Linda Hogan, Tremblay asks us to consider ‘minoritarian models of collective life inspired by respiration,’ those that exist outside of and beyond mainstream feminist spaces of organizing.”—Ricky Varghese, Los Angeles Review of Books DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2022 17 illus. 248pp 9781478018865 £21.99 PB
Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic Lisa E. Bloom
“Ever since the publication of Gender on Ice, Lisa E. Bloom has been one of the most innovative scholars in the field of polar aesthetics and the cultural history of the polar regions. Working with an array of creative art practices, Bloom demonstrates how new ways of feeling, seeing, and thinking are integral to the current and future social, environmental, and geopolitical predicament.”—Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway, University of London DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2022 96 illus. 288pp 9781478023241 £23.99 PB
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Mutations in Human Relations? Vilém Flusser Edited by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes "If you are in search of Flusser the media theorist, indeed, if you are seeking to understand how information works, Communicology is it. Flusser teases out the kinds of fundamental questions that are at the core of the human experience."—Anke Finger, University of Connecticut STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media December 2022 236pp 9781503634480 £23.99 PB
Crisis Vision
Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance Torin Monahan "A methodical and insightful account of the cultural production of differential systems of oppression that characterize the surveillant present. . . . What’s notable throughout is the incisiveness of Monahan’s critique which refuses to shy away from scrutiny even as he lauds each artwork for its investigation of crisis vision."—Gary Kafer, Journal of Cultural Economy DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Errantries September 2022 29 illus. 232pp 9781478018759 £21.99 PB
Curating the Moving Image Mark Nash
"As a well-established pioneer in curatorial studies, Nash provides copious notes and a well-stocked bibliography to enable expansion into this important area of research and scholarship."—Mike Leggett, Leonardo Reviews DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2023 110 color images 408pp 9781478020448 £25.99 PB
Don't Look Away
Art, Nonviolence, and Preventive Publics in Contemporary Europe Brianne Cohen In Don’t Look Away Brianne Cohen considers the role of contemporary art in developing a public commitment to end structural violence in Europe. Cohen focuses on art activism of the early twenty-first century that confronts the slow violence perpetuated against precarious peoples. Exploring the work of German filmmaker Harun Farocki, Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, and the art collective Henry VIII’s Wives, Cohen argues that their recursive art practices offer a more sustained counter to the violence undergirding the public sphere than do artworks premised on immediate rupture. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2023 45 illus., included 22 in color 272pp 9781478019466 £22.99 PB
Dragging Away
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene
The New Nature Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena & Feifei Zhou "Refusing the allure of a singular planetary vision, this book foregrounds the importance of creative, pluralistic, and above all, richly descriptive modes of understanding. An indispensable guide for grappling with our complex Anthropocene world."—Thom van Dooren, author of A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2024 344pp 9781503637320 £25.99 HB Also of interest Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet on page 8
Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty Louise Siddons
With an attentive and sensitive eye, Louise Siddons examines lesbian photographer Laura Gilpin’s classic 1968 book The Enduring Navaho to illuminate the intersectional politics of photography, Navajo sovereignty, and queerness over the course of the twentieth century. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art Lex Morgan Lancaster
July 2024 56 b&w illus. and 16 color plates 320pp 9781517910730 £29.99 PB
Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a drag—dragging past aesthetics into the present and reworking them while pulling their work away from direct representation—these artists reimagine midcentury forms of abstraction and expose the violence of the tendency to reduce abstract form to a bodily sign or biographical symbolism. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Group Works
November 2022 35 illus., incl. 20 in color 208pp 9781478018674 £21.99 PB
April 2023 23 b&w illus. 192pp 9781531502706 £21.99 PB
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Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence Ethan Philbrick An exciting new reflection on the role of artistic collaboration, collectivism, and the politics of group formation in the neoliberal era. Written against both phobic and romantic accounts of collectivity, Group Works contends that the group emerges as a medium for artists when established forms of collective life break down. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition
Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism
"It is fitting that Home Girls also reflects and celebrates the difference, among the [thirtythree] Black feminist writers, critics, and theorists assembled from the United States and the Caribbean, among Black women of all colors, classes, and cultures. More importantly, it reflects and celebrates our connections."—Women's Review of Books RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
"Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism highlights how Monáe's mix of speculation and liberation shines a light on acceptance, care, and community central to Afrofuturism's appeal. Carefully framing intersectional concerns around bodies and power expressed in Monáe's artistic work allows Hassler-Forest to provide an intriguing examination of an artist who has quickly come to embody the transformative potential of black speculative practice."— Julian C. Chambliss, co-editor of Cities Imagined RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
A Black Feminist Anthology Edited by Barbara Smith
Defying Every Label Dan Hassler-Forest
October 2023 12 b&w images 506pp 9781978838994 £23.99 PB Also of interest The Truth That Never Hurts 25th anniversary edi�on
How to Live at the End of the World Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene Travis Holloway
May 2022 20 color images 186pp 9781978826687 £23.99 PB Also of interest The Color Pynk:Black Femme Art for Survival
Marx for Cats
"The jig is up, and various establishments (including the arts) will have no choice but to confront the inevitably unifying conditions dictated by the Anthropocene. Like it or not, we are on the brink of catastrophe, faced with the collective loss of a reliable and habitable future. Short and provocative, this is my kind of 'how to' book."—Bill Marx, Arts Fuse STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2022 138pp 9781503633339 £11.99 PB
A Radical Bestiary Leigh Claire La Berge “Marx for Cats is an undomesticated and indefinable meow de coeur. You can open this book anywhere---it's a Marxist Choose Your Own Adventure---and come away as unsettled, possessed, and reflective as any transportative encounter with a cat might leave you.”—Jordy Rosenberg, author of, Confessions of the Fox DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2023 100 illus. 408pp 9781478019251 £23.99 PB
Inside the Spiral
My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence
The Passions of Robert Smithson Suzaan Boettger "That his art appears larger after reading Inside the Spiral is as much credit to his own capacious imagination as it is to Boettger’s ingenious attempts to contain it."—Artforum "Inside the Spiral is one of the most informative and well written biographies I have ever had the pleasure of reading. To use the American vernacular, Suzaan Boettger can write like 'hot-damn'!" —Robert Maddox-Harle, Leonardo Reviews UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS April 2023 90 b&w illus., 30 color plates 440pp 9781517913540 £29.99 PB
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A Speculative Fiction Mark Amerika
My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence is an improvisational call-and-response writing performance conducted by a language artist and an AI language model and is arranged as a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media May 2022 264pp 9781503631700 £25.99 PB
No Machos or Pop Stars
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk Gavin Butt
January 2022 21 color illus. 66pp 9781684484140 £19.99 PB
"As a history of educational ideas and systems this book is excellent. As a work of cultural history it is superb. . . this is also a book about music and musicians and it is full to the brim with insightful anecdotes and recollections from those who were active participants within this pre-figurative artistic community. It is a deft piece of writing and structural organisation, and there is no shortage of visual materials either.... No Machos or Pop Stars is extremely thorough and thoroughly readable."—Richard Thomas, The Wire DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen
October 2022 118 illus. 312pp 9781478018636 £23.99 PB
The Architecture of Disability
"The Architecture of Disability uses the lens of disability to reevaluate received architectural histories and speculate on a more inclusive architectural environment, one divested from the inherited biases around function and form."—The New York Review of Architecture UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS January 2023 26 b&w illus. 224pp 9781517912505 £21.99 PB
The Fold
Photo-Attractions
An Indian Dancer, an American Photographer, and a German Camera Ajay Sinha "A trio performs: a beautiful male dancer of Indo-Burmese origins, a cult photographer with a Leica, the metal prosthesis that acquires a life of its own — 'photo-eroticism'. This expansively researched book with a nonlinear structure has a discursive flamboyance. A historical moment spins into the contemporary; the language of the writer enthralls the reader."—Vivan Sundaram, visual artist, founder and trustee, Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2022 104 b&w, 7 color images 270pp 9781978830486 £34.00 PB
Screen Time
Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age Edited by Richard Rinehart Contributions by Phillip Prodger Published on the occasion of the art exhibition Screen Time, this catalog features a selection of leading international artists who engage with and critique the role of media in contemporary society. Their work demonstrates what has become known as post-internet artistic practices—art that may or may not be made for the internet but nevertheless acknowledges online culture as an omnipresent influence, inseparable from contemporary social conditions.
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From Your Body to the Cosmos Laura U. Marks “The Fold offers a radical new way of understanding aesthetics and our affective encounter with the world. Through her unique and inspiring voice and the evolution of her larger intellectual project over the decades, she takes readers to a different place from which to reconceive their quotidian engagement with art and life more broadly. This paradigm-shifting work will be a touchstone book for the field.”—David Martin-Jones, author of, Cinema Against Doublethink DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2024 60 illus., including 8 in color 336pp 9781478030119 £24.99 PB
The Sovereign Self
Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde Grant H. Kester “An extraordinarily knowledgeable explanation for those outside the art world, as well as those critically within it, of the philosophical traditions and social contradictions within which artists do their work. This is a book to own.”—Susan BuckMorss, The Graduate Center, City University of New York DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS August 2023 2 illus. 280pp 9781478020424 £23.99 PB
The Structure of Ideas
Mapping a New Theory of Free Expression in the AI Era Jared Schroeder AI and networked technologies have thoroughly overpowered all traditional pictures of the marketplace up to now. Schroeder proposes various theoretical interventions that would revise the marketplace for the current moment, and concludes by describing a new space built around algorithms, AI, and virtual communication. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2024 296pp 9781503639898 £25.99 PB
This Is Not My World
Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb Adair Rounthwaite A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private. In the decades leading up to the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia, a collective of young artists based in Zagreb took to using the city’s public spaces as a platform for radical individual expression. This Is Not My World presents a detailed account of the Group of Six Authors and their circle in the prolific and experimental period from 1975 to 1985, highlighting the friction between public and private that underlied their innovative practices. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS January 2024 19 color plates 296pp 9781517914233 £25.99 PB
The War In-Between
Indexing a Visual Culture of Survival Wendy Kozol Against the fabric of suffering that unfolds around more spectacular injuries and deaths, The War In-Between studies visual depictions of banal, routine, or inscrutable aspects of militarized violence. Spaces of the inbetween are both broader and much less visible than battlefields, even though struggles for survival arise out of the same conditions of structural violence. Visual artifacts including photographs, video, data visualizations, fabric art, and craft projects provide different vantage points on the quotidian impacts of militarism, whether it is the banality of everyday violence for noncombatants or the daily struggles of soldiers living with physical and emotional trauma. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2024 35 color illus. 256pp 9781531507237 £29.99 PB
Thinking While Black
Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation Daniel McNeil “McNeil has created an expansive chronicle of Black history and pop culture in both the US and UK over the past 50 years, and a powerful story about sameness, difference, and shared sense of purpose that is destined to become an invaluable resource in contemporary cultural studies.”—Kenneth Montague, founder and director of Wedge Curatorial Projects RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2022 7 b&w illus. 222pp 9781978830875 £23.99 PB
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Wake Up, This Is Joburg Tanya Zack & Mark Lewis
"These pieces are sometimes sad, sometimes inspiring, and add up to a complicated picture of a city of contradictions. . . . Wake Up, This Is Joburg tells its range of interesting stories well, through on-the-ground reporting, with ample interviews and context, letting a variety of people around Johannesburg talk about both the struggles and successes of everyday life in the inner city."- Jeff Fleischer, Foreword DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Theory in Forms January 2023 251 color illus., 1 map 368pp 9781478018704 £24.99 PB
What Is Extinction?
A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals Joshua Schuster Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to document and interpret these events. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2023 16 b&w illus. 304pp 9781531501655 £25.99 PB
BESTSELLERS Afrotopia
take hold as a dominant epistemology."— Hypatia Reviews UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Felwine Sarr Translated by Drew S. Burk & Sarah Jones-Boardman
May 2017 57 368pp 9781517902377 £23.99 PB
Through a reflection on contemporary African writers, artists, intellectuals, and musicians, Sarr elaborates Africa’s unique philosophies and notions of communal value and economy deeply rooted in its ancient traditions and landscape—concepts such as ubuntu, the life force in Dogon culture; the Rwandan imihigo; and the Senegalese teranga. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Series: Univocal March 2020 128pp 9781517906917 £21.99 PB
Creative Life
Music, Politics, People, and Machines Bob Ostertag In this eloquent and passionate volume, Bob Ostertag explores the common ground and points of friction among music, creativity, politics, culture, and technology. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS July 2009 25 b&w photos, discography, filmography 208pp 9780252076466 £18.99 PB
Art and Cosmotechnics
Cruel Optimism
Yuk Hui
Addresses the challenge of technology to the existence of art and traditional thought, especially in light of current discourses on artificial intelligence and robotics. An attempt to look into the varieties of experiences of art and to ask what these experiences might contribute to the rethinking of technology today. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Series: e-flux June 2021 15 240pp 9781517909543 £23.99 PB
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Lauren Berlant
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the socialdemocratic promise of the postwar period in the US and Europe has retracted. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2011 58 illus. 352pp 9780822351115 £22.99 PB Also of interest On the Inconvenience of Other People on page 10
Cruising Utopia, 10th
Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anniversary Edition The Then and There of Queer Futurity Edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan José Esteban Muñoz & Heather Anne Swanson Foreword by Joshua Chambers-Letson, "The editors of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet set out to illustrate through storytelling the ambivalent entanglements of ghosts and monsters in the Anthropocene as a practical means toward broadening our knowledge-creation of the challenges of a world in the making. If the scientific community takes to heart their offering (and the offerings of those who came before them), the scientific paradigm-shift (that started with feminist science studies, the civil rights movement, and environmentalism) from objectivity to subjectivity might just
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Tavia Nyong'o & Ann Pellegrini Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futuritybound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. On the anniversary of its original publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and expand the project of Cruising Utopia. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Sexual Cultures April 2019 8 illus., color, 23 b&w illus. 280pp 9781479874569 £23.99 PB
Designs for the Pluriverse
Francis Bacon
Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being that are deeply attuned to the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial aims. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Deleuze offers implicit and explicit insights into the origins and development of his own philosophical and aesthetic ideas, ideas that represent a turning point in his intellectual trajectory. First published in French in 1981, Francis Bacon has come to be recognized as one of Deleuze’s most significant texts in aesthetics. Anticipating his work on cinema, the baroque, and literary criticism, the book can be read not only as a study of Bacon’s paintings but also as a crucial text within Deleuze’s broader philosophy of art. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds Arturo Escobar
Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century March 2018 312pp 9780822371052 £24.99 PB Also of interest Pluriversal Poli�cs: The Real and the Possible
Dialectic of Enlightenment Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno Edited Gunzelin Schmid Noeri Translated by Edmund Jephcott
A new, improved translation of the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Adorno and Horkheimer aimed "to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism." STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Cultural Memory in the Present March 2007 304pp 9780804736336 £25.99 PB
The Logic of Sensation Gilles Deleuze
May 2005 224pp 9780816643424 £19.99 PB
Hyperobjects
Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Timothy Morton Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls “hyperobjects”—entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Series: Posthumanities September 2013 23 240pp 9780816689231 £21.99 PB
Feminist, Queer, Crip
In the Wake
Alison Kafer
"Feminist, Queer, Crip is ambitious, doggedly interdisciplinary, and accessibly written. It retains political sharpness while remaining determinedly optimistic about queer/crip futures."—QED Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
On Blackness and Being Christina Sharpe (Best Books of 2016) "The book that will live on in me from this year is Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake, on living in the wake of the catastrophic violence of legal chattel slavery. In the Wake speaks in so many multiple ways (poetry, memory, theory, images) and does so in language that is never still. It is, in part, about keeping watch, not unseeing the violence that has become normative, being in the hold, holding on and still living."— Madeleine Thien, The Guardian DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2016 31 illus. 192pp 9780822362944 £21.99 PB
May 2013 2 b&w illus. 276pp 9780253009340 £22.99 PB Also of interest Crip Genealogies
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Kafka
Toward a Minor Literature Gilles Deleuze Contributions by Félix Guattari In this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of Kafka’s work. Instead of exploring preexisting categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of “minor literature”—the use of a major language that subverts it from within. Writing as a Jew in Prague, they contend, Kafka made German “take flight on a line of escape” and joyfully became a stranger within it. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Series: Theory and History of Literature October 1986 136pp 9780816615155 £19.99 PB
Listening to Images Tina M. Campt
Campt explores a way of listening to photography by engaging with lost archives of state identification photographs of Afrodiasporan people taken between the late 1800s and the present, showing how to hear the quiet refusal emanating from these photos originally intended to dehumanize and police their subjects. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2017 136 photos (inclu. 30 in 152pp 9780822362708 £21.99 PB
vital insights into the ideas and places that museums are creating in contemporary culture. This ambitious study investigates how museums are blurring the boundaries between their gallery walls and public spaces. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS January 2020 40 320pp 9781517908249 £25.99 PB
On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant
"A book about proceeding in brokenness, On The Inconvenience of Other People is simultaneously an experiment, if not a map, on how to do theory in a damaged world."— LSE Review of Books DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Writing Matters! September 2022 18 illus. 256pp 9781478018452 £21.99 PB Also of interest Cruel Op�mism on page 8
Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron
Max Liboiron models an anticolonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous concepts of land, ethics, and relations to outline the entanglements of capitalism, colonialism, and environmental science. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2021 10 illus. 216pp 9781478014133 £21.99 PB
Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway Preface by Cary Wolfe
"Unusual and exciting. Every word adds a new detail, facet, nuance, reflection, to an infinitely detailed, faceted, nuanced reality."—London Review of Books UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Series: Posthumanities April 2016 9 224pp 9780816650484 £16.99 PB Also of interest Staying with the Trouble on page 11
Museums Inside Out
Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies Mark W. Rectanus Wide-ranging in its case studies, and boldly putting museum studies and art into conversation, Museums Inside Out delivers
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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Fredric Jameson
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions January 1992 24 illus., 8 in color 460pp 9780822310907 £15.99 PB
Queer Ecologies
Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands & Bruce Erickson "[V]ibrant texts, brimming with possibilities for rethinking, rereading, and reinflecting the links between perception, ontology, epistemology, politics, and ethics. ... [A]llow[s] for the possibility of further reflections on the material conditions of intellectual inquiry, and for what materialities our 'immaterial labors' might creatively enact, change, transform."— Women's Studies Quarterly "As the first book-length overview of the subject, Queer Ecologies makes a major, much-needed contribution to this important present and future debate."—The Goose INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2010 3 b&w illus. 424pp 9780253222039 £25.99 PB
Senses of the Subject Judith Butler
This book brings together a group of Judith Butler’s philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and Fanon. Drawing on her early work on Hegelian desire and her subsequent reflections on the psychic life of power and the possibility of self-narration, this book considers how passions such as desire, rage, love, and grief are bound up with becoming a subject within specific historical fields of power. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2015 228pp 9780823264674 £22.99 PB
Space And Place
Sculpting in Time
Reflections on the Cinema Andrey Tarkovsky Translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair "Learning the language of cinema in Tarkovsky's films and in this stunning memoir, we reacquaint ourselves with art's function: in the author's words, 'to turn and loosen the human soul.'"—Paste Magazine UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS April 1989 256pp 9780292776241 £29.99 PB
Selected Writings on Race and Difference Stuart Hall Edited by Paul Gilroy & Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Selected Writings on Race and Difference gathers more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Stuart Hall: Selected Writings April 2021 376pp 9781478011668 £27.99 PB Also of interest Wri�ngs on Media and Selected Wri�ngs on Marxism
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The Perspective of Experience Yi-Fu Tuan Explores how California Chicano/a writers, journalists, artists, activists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano place-identity. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS January 2001 248pp 9780816638772 £19.99 PB
Staying with the Trouble Making Kin in the Chthulucene Donna J. Haraway
"Chthulucene is not a simple word, yet it is a productive motif for Haraway. With it she laces ideas from urban pigeons, woolen coral reefs, writing workshops, Inupiat computer games, canine estrogen and Black Mesa sheep. The thready and the tentacular form the subject and the framework of her theorymaking, as well as the structure of her writing." -Archie Davies, Antipode DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Experimental Futures September 2016 31 illus. 312pp 9780822362241 £24.99 PB
Summa Technologiae
Stanisław Lem Translated by Joanna Zylinska "Summa is a fantasia that follows certain lines of speculative thought as far as Lem can take them. Lem’s sober materialism may seem dehumanizing, but he brings back to the frontier a question that has plagued civilization since the beginning, and whose shifting, always insufficient answers have always signaled revolutions in culture: what is it to be human?" —Los Angeles Review of Books UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Series: Electronic Mediations January 2014 1 440pp 9780816675777 £21.99 PB
The Burnout Society Byung-Chul Han
Every epoch has its emblematic illnesses, this book argues, and our society is undergoing a silent paradigm shift that has led to the pathological exhaustion commonly referred to as "burnout." Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, ByungChul Han draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS August 2015 72pp 9780804795098 £11.99 PB
The Pleasure in Drawing Jean-Luc Nancy Tranlated by Philip Armstrong
Originally written for an exhibition Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, the text addresses the medium of drawing in light of form in its formation, of form as a formative force, opening drawing to questions of pleasure and desire. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2013 128pp 9780823250943 £21.99 PB
Toward the Critique of Violence A Critical Edition
Walter Benjamin Edited by Peter Fenves & Julia Ng Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, this critical edition presents an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2021 368pp 9780804749534 £21.99 PB
Vibrant Matter
A Political Ecology of Things Jane Bennett “Bennett’s is one of those books where, on finishing, you want to begin immediately again to experience the excitement and élan vital of eloquent, simple ideas presented in clear, concise and considered prose, wherein the presence of a generous, kind and unpretentious author speaks straight into your understanding. Vibrant Matter is fresh, alert, quiet and potent, a door opening in a stuffy room to let the outside in, which lets it speak so as to embolden us to breathe differently. It will redraw the boundaries of political thought; it’s already doing so. Read it.”—Emotion, Space and Society DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book January 2010 200pp 9780822346333 £21.99 PB
Wild Things
The Disorder of Desire Jack Halberstam “Where can the wild take you? With Jack Halberstam as guide, to places fabulous, cruel, soaring, undead, hilarious, dark, seductive, promising, nonprovidential. Wild Things is a brilliant phenomenology of the (more than) human condition of bewilderment. Its critique of invocations of wildness tethered to colonial, racist fantasies also marks how the figure can contribute to forms of desire bent toward the feral, the incipient, the otherwise. Wild Things is an awesome trip.”—Jane Bennett, author of, Influx and Efflux DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe October 2020 7 illus. 240pp 9781478011088 £22.99 PB
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