Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works, published by the University of Minnesota Press. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
The Racial Cage
Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Amade Aouatef M'charek and Anne Pollock
A collaborative conversation across continents, this work examines the racial cage as an important part of the practice of social division and bodily containment. The deeply considered result is an empirical and theoretical approach to biohumanities that productively interrogates its linkages to critical theories of race and racism.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
July 2025 116pp
9781517918996
£9.00 PB
Ungendering Menstruation
Ela Przybylo
Drawing on their own experiences as a toxic shock survivor and a menstrual pain and period dysphoria sufferer, Ela Przybyło questions why and how menstrual pain needs to be incorporated into discussions of gender, embodiment, and disability.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
May 2025 116pp
9781517918378 £9.00 PB
Coralations
Melody Jue
Through thought-provoking analyses of photography, science fiction, visual art, and scientific images, Melody Jue renews our curiosity and broadens our understanding of corals beyond the dominant narratives about their endangerment. Coralations shows how paying attention to particular corals can change what we take for granted.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
February 2025 6 b&w illus. 88pp
9781517918125 £9.00 PB
Speculative Whiteness
Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Jordan S. Carroll
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled with Aryan supermen and all-white space colonies. Speculative Whiteness traces these ideas through the entangled histories of science fiction culture and white supremacist politics.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2024 120pp
9781517917081 £9.00 PB
Proposals for a Caring Economy
Edited by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Moving between examples focused on immigration and agriculture, patients and art audiences, green energy transitions and unhoused people, prison abolitionists and clients of domestic violence services, the contributors here argue that we need new ways to conceptualize care and its applications.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
June 2025 106pp
9781517918477 £9.00 PB
Humanities in the Time of AI
Laurent Dubreuil
If humanistic research consists of the generation of consensus positions, simple expression, summarized texts, or passable translations, then we have arrived at the place where AI is able to accomplish these different missions to a convincing degree. Laurent Dubreuil examines why AI offers a chance for the humanities to strengthen their relevance and significance.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
April 2025 1 b&w illus. 104pp
9781517919047 £9.00 PB
Nonbinary Jane Austen
Chris Washington
Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently than we have classically understood her: rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, the author theorizes how Austen envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that we can supposedly see solidifying in the eighteenth century.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
January 2025 106pp
9781517917586 £9.00 PB
Futures of the Sun
The Struggle over Renewable Life
Imre Szeman
Imre Szeman explains how and why key players are working hard to make sure a greener, cleaner future will look much like the world we live in today. He examines the rhetoric, ideology, and politics of liberal nationalists intent on fighting a war against climate change, billionaire solar entrepreneurs who believe only in themselves, and the populist far right who want no change at all.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2024 108pp
9781517917692 £9.00 PB
The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood
Shenila Khoja-Moolji
How do we understand an incident where a fiveyear-old Muslim boy arrives at Dulles airport and is preemptively detained as a “threat”? To answer that question, Shenila Khoja-Moolji examines American public culture, arguing that Muslim boyhood has been invented as a threat within an ideology that seeks to predict future terrorism.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
July 2024 4 b&w illus.120pp
9781517917197 £9.00 PB
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism
Lisa
Diedrich
Explores illness and disability in action on social media, analyzing several popular hashtags as examples of how illness figures in recent U.S. politics. Diedrich argues that illness politics is central to both mainstream and radical politics, as she investigates the dynamic intersection of media and health and how it effects our understanding of illness.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
May 2024 6 b&w illus. 150pp
9781517917340 £9.00 PB
Everything is Police
Tia Trafford
Policing is constitutive of colonial modernity: normalizing, internalizing, and legalizing antiBlack violence as the ongoing condition for white life and freedom. From the plantation to the prison, global apartheid, and pandemic control, author Tia Trafford examines why and how policing has become the most ingrained, commonsense—and insidious—way of managing our world.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
February 2024 112pp
9781517916862 £9.00 PB
No More Fossils
Dominic Boyer
Dominic Boyer tells the story of the rise of fossil civilization through successive phases of sucropolitics (plantation sugar), carbopolitics (industrial coal), and petropolitics (oily automobility and plasticity), showing what tethers us to the ecocidal trajectory of petroculture today and what it will take to overcome the forces that mire us in place.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2023 108pp
9781517916367 £9.00 PB
Opening Ceremony
Inviting Inclusion into University Governance
Kathryn J. Gindlesparger
Explores how university governance is restricted by ceremony and what it must do to survive.
Gindlesparger considers how to break the seal of ceremony to invite voices not traditionally heard in governance and, in doing so, protect the ideals of the institution and rebuild trust in higher education.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
August 2023 96pp
9781517915926 £9.00 PB
I Know You Are, but What Am I?
On Pee-wee Herman
Cait McKinney
Explores the cultural legacy of Pee-wee Herman, the cult television star of Pee-wee’s Playhouse. This children’s show ran on network TV from 1986 to 1990 and starred comedian Paul Reubens as Herman, a queer man-boy whose playhouse, the set for the show, was tricked out with a profusion of animate computational toys and technologies.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
July 2024 92pp
9781517918286 £9.00 PB
On the Appearance of the World
A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture
Mark Foster Gage
Looks at our increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, as they seem to be getting uglier. Gage imagines a future scenario where architectural design and ideas from aesthetic philosophy align toward the production of a built world that is more humane, habitable, beautiful, and just.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
February 2024 80pp
9781517917289 £9.00 PB
Livestreaming
An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter
EL Putnam
In this book, EL Putnam takes up the implications of Livestreaming technology, arguing that livestreamed internet broadcasts invite distinctive means of relating to others. Treating humans and technologies as inherently relational, Putnam considers how livestreaming constitutes new patterns of being together that are complex, ambivalent, and transformative.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
January 2024 98pp
9781517917098 £9.00 PB
Gramsci at Sea
Sharad Chari
How might an oceanic Gramsci speak to Black aquafuturism and other forms of oceanic critique? Chari argues that the imprisoned militant’s method is oceanic in form, and that this oceanic Marxism can attend to the roil of sociocultural dynamics, to waves of imperial power, as well as to the capacity of Black, Drexciyan, and other forms of oceanic critique to “storm” us on different shores.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
August 2023 106pp
9781517915919 £9.00 PB
Crip Negativity
J. Logan Smilges
In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as activists and politicians had hoped. In Crip Negativity, J. Logan Smilges shows us what’s gone wrong and what we can do to fix it.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
May 2023 106pp
9781517915582 £9.00 PB
Health Colonialism
Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers
Shiloh Krupar
Considers the role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid. Shiloh Krupar investigates the racially inequitable effects of elite U.S. hospitals on their surrounding neighborhoods and their role in consolidating frontiers of land primed for redevelopment.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
March 2023 110pp
9781517915421 £9.00 PB
Rescue Me On Dogs and Their Humans
Margret
Grebowicz
This is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animal. Exploring adoption, work, food, and training, this book considers the social as fundamentally more-than-human and argues that the future belongs to dogs—and the humans they are pulling along.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
August 2022 80pp
9781517914608 £9.00 PB
The School-Prison Trust
Sabina E. Vaught, Bryan McKinley, Jones Brayboy and Jeremiah Chin
Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples. At its heart, the book is a constellation of stories of Indigenous self-determination in the face of this ongoing conquest.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
July 2022 142pp
9781517914264
£9.00 PB
The Owls Are Not What They Seem
Artist as Ethologist
Arnaud Gerspacher
A selective history of modern and contemporary engagements with animals in the visual arts and how these explorations relate to the evolution of scientific knowledge about animals. Gerspacher suggests that, art has much to offer in revealing the otherworldly qualities of animals and forging ecopolitical solidarities with fellow earthlings.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
May 2022 112pp
9781517913564 £9.00 PB
Does the Earth Care?
Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology
Mick Smith and Jason Young
Rethinking our relationship with Earth, Mick Smith and Jason Young offer an Earthly alternative to either cold realism or alienated despair in the face of impending ecological disaster.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS April 2022 132pp
9781517913205 £9.00 PB
All through the Town
The School Bus as Educational Technology
Antero Garcia
The role of the humble school bus in transforming education in America. Everyone knows the yellow school bus. It’s been invisible and also omnipresent for a century. Antero Garcia shows how the U.S. school bus, its form unaltered for decades, is the most substantial piece of educational technology to ever shape how schools operate.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
February 2023 100pp
9781517915650 £9.00 PB
Endlings
Fables for the Anthropocene
Lydia Pyne
An endling is the last known individual of a species; when that individual dies, the species becomes extinct. In this evocative work, Pyne explores how discussion about endlings—how we tell their histories—draws on deep traditions of storytelling across a variety of narrative types that go well beyond the science of these species’ biology or their evolutionary history.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
August 2022 106pp
9781517914837 £9.00 PB
Solarities
Seeking Energy Justice
Edited by Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney
Considers the possibilities of organizing societies and economies around solar energy, and the challenges of a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels. Here, a diverse collective of activists, scholars, and practitioners critically engage a wide range of relationships and orientations to the sun.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
May 2022 1 b&w illus. 92pp
9781517914141 £9.00 PB
Studious Drift Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education
Peter Hyland and Tyson E. Lewis
Drawing on Alfred Jarry’s pataphysics, the “science of imaginary solutions,” this book reveals how the studio is a space-time machine capable of traveling beyond the limits of conventional online learning to redefine education as interdisciplinary, experimental, public study.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS April 2022 98pp
9781517913212 £9.00 PB
Out of Breath
Vulnerability of Air in Contemporary Art
Caterina Albano
Conceived in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and systemic inequalities that it has laid bare, Caterinal Albano explores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing through contemporary art, and shows the potential of artistic practices to mobilize affect as a form of cultural and political critique.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS April 2022 96pp
9781517913557 £9.00 PB
The World Is Gone
Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic
Gregg Lambert
Part personal memoir, part philosophical reflection and written in the midst of the pandemic in 2021, The World Is Gone employs the Robinson Crusoe fable to launch an existential investigation of the effects of extreme isolation, profound boredom, nightly insomnia, and the fear of madness associated with the loss of a world populated by others.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
February 2022 114pp
9781517913380 £9.00 PB
Safety Orange
Anna Watkins Fisher
Safety Orange first emerged in the 1950s as a bureaucratic color standard in technical manuals and federal regulations in the United States. Today it is most visible in the contexts of terror, pandemic, and environmental alarm systems; traffic control; work safety; and mass incarceration. Here, Anna Watkins Fisher explores how fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
December 2021 98pp
9781517913397 £9.00 PB
Calamity Theory
Three Critiques of Existential Risk
Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods
A new philosophical field has emerged. “Existential risk” studies any real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant future. Calamity Theory is the first book to examine the rise of existential risk thinking and its failures to acknowledge the ways some communities and lifeways are more at risk than others and what it implies about human extinction.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2021 136pp
9781517912918 £9.00 PB
Virtue Hoarders
The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Catherine Liu
Catherine Liu shows how the Professional Managerial Class (PMC) stands in the way of social justice and economic redistribution by promoting meritocracy, philanthropy, and other self-serving operations to abet an individualist path to a better world. Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
January 2021 90pp
9781517912253 £9.00 PB
Grounded
Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic
Christopher Schaberg
As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, Christopher Schaberg a look at how we got here. Grounded blends journalistic reportage with cultural theory and philosophical inquiry in order to offer graspable insights as well as a stinging critique of contemporary air travel.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
December 2020 92pp
9781517912024 £9.00 PB
Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now
Grant Farred
A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world. Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now uses sport as a point of departure to argue that the dystopic crisis of our current moment offers a singular opportunity to reimagine how we live in the world.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
January 2022 130pp
9781517913373 £9.00 PB
Young-Girls in Echoland #Theorizing Tiqqun
Andrea Jonsson & Heather WarrenCrow
With an ear for the sound of Tiqqun’s polemic and its ensemble of Anglophone and Francophone rejoinders, Young-Girls in Echoland offers a model for analyzing the call-andresponse of pop philosophy and for hearing the affective rhythms of communicative capitalism.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
November 2021 126pp
9781517913021 £9.00 PB
The
Global Shelter Imaginary Ikea Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief
Andrew Herscher and Daniel Bertrand Monk
Prompted by a growing number of refugees and other displaced people, this book examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
July 2021 96pp
9781517912222 £9.00 PB
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender
Marquis
Bey
A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed. Chandler’s text serves as both an argumentative tool for rendering the “radical alternative” in and as blackness as well as demonstrating the necessarily trans/gendered valences of that radical alternative.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
December 2020 96pp
9781517911959 £9.00 PB
Cruelty as Citizenship
How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy
Cristina Beltrán
Situating the contemporary debate on immigration within America's history of indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery, the Mexican-American War, and Jim Crow, Beltrán explores wht immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2020 136pp
9781517911928 £9.00 PB
Trans Care
Hil Malatino
What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How have failures of care shaped trans lives? What care practices have trans subjects and communities cultivated in the wake of widespread transphobia and systemic forms of trans exclusion?A serious consideration of trans survival and flourishing requires a radical rethinking of how care operates.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2020 72pp
9781517911188 £9.00 PB
Furious Feminisms
Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road
Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr
A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power. This experiment in collaborative criticism weaves multiple threads of dialogue together to offer a fresh perspective on our current cultural moment.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
January 2020 82pp
9781517909192 £9.00 PB
Wageless Life
A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism
Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone
Drawing up alternate ways to “make a living” beyond capitalism, Wageless Life is a manifesto for building a future beyond the toxic failures of late-stage capitalism. Daring to imagine new social relations, new modes of economic existence, and new collective worlds, the authors provide skills and tools for perceiving— and living in— a post-capitalist future.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
December 2019 142pp
9781517909260 £9.00 PB
Medical Technics
Don Ihde
A rigorous examination of how medical progress has modified our worlds and contributed to a virtual revolution in longevity. Don Ihde offers a unique autobiographical tour of medical events experienced in a decade, beginning in his 70s. He offers experiential and postphenomenological analyses of technologies such as sonography and microsurgery, and ultimately asks what it means to increasingly become a cyborg.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2019 94pp
9781517908300 £9.00 PB
Burgers in Blackface
Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Stereotyped Black faces and bodies have long promoted retail food products that are household names. Much less visible to the public are the restaurants that deploy unapologetically racist logos, themes, and architecture. This book gives a powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in US restaurant branding.
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July 2019 13 b&w illus. 96pp 9781517908027 £9.00 PB
Kill the Overseer!
The Gamification of Slave Resistance
Sarah Juliet Lauro
In this work, Sarah Juliet Lauro questions whether the reduction of a historical enslaved person to a digital commodity in games such as Mission US, Assassin’s Creed, and Freedom Cry ought to trouble us as a further commodification of slavery’s victims, or whether these interactive experiences offer an empowering commemoration of the history of slave resistance.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
June 2020 100pp
9781517911003 £9.00 PB
LatinX
Claudia Milian
Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”descended populations in the United States. Milian’s trailblazing study deploys the indeterminate but thunderous “X” as intellectual armor, a speculative springboard, and a question for our times that never stops being asked. LatinX sorts out and addresses issues about the unknowability of social realities that exceed our present knowledge.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
December 2019 116pp
9781517909055 £9.00 PB
Spoiler Alert
A Critical Guide
Aaron Jaffe
Encompassing memes and trigger warnings, Vilem Flusser and Thomas Pynchon, Spoiler Alert wrangles with the state of surprise in posthistorical times. Aaron Jaffe delivers a timely corrective to post-critical modes of reading that demonstrates the dangers of forfeiting critical suspicion.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2019 100pp
9781517908034 £9.00 PB
How to Do Things with Sensors
Jennifer Gabrys
An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies. Jennifer Gabrys asks why the howto has become one of the prevailing genres of the digital. The book explores the ways in which things are made do-able with and through sensors and further considers how worlds are made sense-able and actionable through the instructional mode of citizen-sensing projects.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
August 2019 106pp
9781517908317 £9.00 PB
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism
Arne De Boever
Proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to describe the widespread belief that art and artists are exceptional. Engaging with sculpture, conceptual artwork, and painting by emerging and established artists, De Boever proposes a worldly, democratic notion of unexceptional art as an antidote to the problems of aesthetic exceptionalism.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
June 2019 16 b&w illus, 130pp
9781517908348 £9.00 PB
Break Up the Anthropocene
Steve
Mentz
Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and argues that this age should subvert imperial masculinity and industrial conquest by opening up the plural possibilities of Anthropocene debates of resilience, adaptation, and the struggle for environmental justice.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
May 2019 86pp
9781517908621 £9.00 PB
Edges of the State
John Protevi
This book takes a look at the formation, and edges, of states: their breakdowns and attempts to repair them, and their encounters with nonstate peoples. It draws upon anthropology, political philosophy, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, child developmental psychology, and other fields to look at states as projects of constructing “bodies politic,” where the civic and the somatic intersect.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
April 2019 74pp
9781517907969 £9.00 PB
The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance
Kenneth J. Saltman
Charter school expansion. Vouchers. Scholarship tax credit programs. This book offers a new social theory to explain why these and other privatization policies and programs win support despite being unsupported by empirical evidence. Saltman details how new and massive neoliberal educational privatization schemes have been widely adopted in the United States.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2018 124pp
9781517900892 £9.00 PB
The End of Man
A Feminist Counterapocalypse
Joanna Zylinska
Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes and offering an ethical vision of a “feminist counterapocalypse,” which challenges many of the masculinist and technicist solutions to our planetary crises. The book is accompanied by a short photo-film, Exit Man, which asks: If unbridled progress is no longer an option, what kinds of coexistences and collaborations do we create in its aftermath?
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
March 2018 78pp
9781517905590 £9.00 PB
Aspirational Fascism
The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism
William E. Connolly
Examining the early stages of the Nazi movement in Germany, Connolly detects synergies with Donald Trump’s rhetorical style. Tapping into a sense of contemporary fragility, he pays particular attention to how conflicts between neoliberalism and the pluralizing left have placed the white working class in a bind.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2017 142pp
9781517905125 £9.00 PB
Theory for the World to Come
Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Draws on such authors as Kim Stanley Robinson and Octavia Butler, and engages with afrofuturism, indigenous speculative fiction, and films from the 1970s and ’80s to help think differently about the future and its possibilities.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
April 2019 116pp
9781517907808 £9.00 PB
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Kathryn Yusoff
Examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. Yusoff initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between feminist black theory, geography, and the earth sciences, addressing the politics of the Anthropocene within the context of race, materiality, deep time, and the afterlives of geology.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
November 2018 130pp
9781517907532 £9.00 PB
The Neocolonialism of the Global Village
Ginger
Nolan
This book excavates the violent history that gave rise to the concept of the global village. Reassessing McLuhan’s media theories in light of their entanglement with colonial and neocolonial techniques, Nolan implicates various arch-paradigms of power (including “terrapower”) in thelarger prerogative of managing human populations.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
July 2018 80pp
9781517904869 £9.00 PB
Callous Objects
Designs against the Homeless
Robert Rosenberger
Rosenberger uncovers injustices built into our everyday surroundings by examining such commonplace devices as garbage cans, fences, signage, and benches. He brings together ideas from the philosophy of technology, social theory, and feminist epistemology to spotlight the widespread anti-homeless ideology built into our communities and enacted in law.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
December 2017 17 b&w illus. 79pp
9781517904401 £9.00 PB
Shareveillance
The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data
Clare Birchall
Argues that we are all “shareveillant” subjects, called upon to be transparent at the same time as the security state invests in practices to keep data closed. Drawing on Rancière’s “distribution of the sensible,” Birchall reimagines sharing in terms of a collective political relationality beyond the veillant expectations of the state.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2017 86pp
9781517904258 £9.00 PB
A Third University Is Possible
la paperson
Drawing parallels to Third Cinema and Black filmmaking assemblages, author la paperson ultimately presents new ways of using language to develop a framework for hotwiring university “machines” to the practical work of decolonization.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
June 2017 100pp
9781517902087 £9.00 PB
The Politics of Bitcoin Software as Right-Wing Extremism
David Golumbia
Exposes how much of the economic and political thought on which this cryptocurrency is based emerges from ideas that travel the gamut, from Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises to Federal Reserve conspiracy theorists.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2016 100pp
9781517901806 £9.00 PB
Fifty Years of "The Battle of Algiers"
Past as Prologue
Sohail Daulatzai
As the War on Terror expands and the “threat” of the Muslim looms, The Battle of Algiers is more than an artifact of the past. With a philosophical nod to Frantz Fanon, Daulatzai demonstrates that tracing the film’s afterlife reveals a larger story about how dreams of freedom were shared and crushed in the fifty years since its release.
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August 2016 16 b&w illus. 104pp
9781517902384 £9.00 PB
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the PostOntological Age
Mark Jarzombek
Mark Jarzombek argues that the world has become redesigned to fuse the algorithmic with the ontological, and the discussion of ontology must be updated to rethink the question of Being. Jarzombek provocatively studies the new interrelationship between human and algorithm.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
August 2016 110pp
9781517901837 £9.00 PB
Cinema without Reflection
Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissim Adrift
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Following Derrida’s interventions on Echo and Narcissus across his thought on the visual arts, Akira Mizuta Lippit seeks to return to a theory of cinema adrift in Derrida’s philosophy.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
March 2016 82pp
9781517900045 £9.00 PB
The Celebrity Persona Pandemic
P. David Marshall
As social media has progressively led to a greater focus on the production of the self, so this book looks at the most visible versions of persona through figures such as Stephen Colbert, Cate Blachett, and Justin Bieber, as well as fictional characters like Spock and Harry Potter. Ultimately, P. David Marshall closely studies how persona culture shapes our notions of value and significance, and dramatically shifts cultural politics.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2016 10 b&w illus. 104pp
9781517901059 £9.00 PB
Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics
Davide Panagia
An invitation to culture makers, political thinkers of all kinds, and everyday spectators to reconsider their love of the world of appearances. Inspired by Jacques Rancière’s Ten Theses on Politics and work by Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell, and Roland Barthes, Panagia offers conceptual provocations that emphasize the sense of conviction one has when facing the frictions of aesthetic experience.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2016 2 b&w illus. 76pp
9781517901820 £9.00 PB
The Uberfication of the University
Gary
Hall
In this society, we all are encouraged to become microentrepreneurs of the self, acting as if we are our own precarious freelance enterprises at a time when we are being steadily deprived of employment rights, public services, and welfare support. The book considers the contemporary university, itself subject to such entrepreneurial practices, and its implications for the future organization of labor.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
August 2016 74pp
9781517902124 £9.00 PB
How Noise Matters to Finance
N. Adriana Knouf
Draws on historical and contemporary documents to show how noise—sonic, informatic, or otherwise—affects the ways financial markets function. N. AdrianaKnouf considers different forms of financial noise, paying attention to how materiality and the interference of humans and machines causes the meanings of noise to shift over space and time.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
July 2016 60pp
9781517901578 £9.00 PB
Dark Deleuze
Andrew Culp
Culp recovers the Deleuze’s forgotten negativity. He unsettles the prevailing interpretation through an underground network of references to conspiracy, cruelty, the terror of the outside, and the shame of being human. Ultimately, he rekindles opposition to what is intolerable about this world.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
June 2016 90pp
9781517901332 £9.00 PB
Mandela's Dark Years
A Political Theory of Dreaming
Sharon Sliwinski
Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, this short, provocative study blends political theory with clinical psychoanalysis to consider the politics of dreaming. It guides the reader through the psychology of apartheid, recasting dreaming as a vital form of resistance to political violence, away from a rational binary of thinking.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
November 2015 48pp
9780816699902 £9.00 PB
The Geek's Chihuahua
Living with Apple
Ian Bogost
The ubiquitous iPhone and its kin saturate our lives, changing everything from our communication to our posture. Bogost contrasts the values of Apple’s massive success in the twenty-first century with those of its rise in the twentieth. And he connects living with Apple with the phenomenon of “hyperemployment”— the constant overwork of today’s technological life that all of us now experience.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
April 2015 7 b&w illus. 88pp
9780816699131 £9.00 PB
No Speed Limit
Three Essays on Accelerationism
Steven Shaviro
Accelerationism is the bastard offspring of a furtive liaison between Marxism and science fiction. Its basic premise is that the only way out is the way through: to get beyond capitalism, we need to push its technologies to the point where they explode. Here, Shaviro makes the case for an accelerationist aesthetics.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
January 2015 60pp
9780816697670 £9.00 PB
The Anthrobscene
Jussi Parikka
Jussi Parikka critiques corporate and human desires as a geophysical force, analyzing the material side of the earth as essential for the existence of media and introducing the notion of an alternative deep time in which media live on in the layer of toxic waste we will leave behind as our geological legacy.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2014 60pp
9780816696079 £9.00 PB
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life
Grant Farred
Combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer an unusual meditation on American racism. After experiencing a racist encounter, Farred grapples with why it is that Heidegger—well known as a Nazi—resonates so deeply with him during this encounter instead of other, more predictable figures such as Malcolm X, W. E. B. DuBois, or Frantz Fanon.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2015 84pp
9780816699360 £9.00 PB
Deep Mapping the Media City
Shannon Mattern
Going beyond current scholarship on the “media city” and the“smart city,” Shannon Mattern advocates for urban media archaeology, a multisensory approach to investigating the material history of networked cities.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
March 2015 28 b&w illus. 70pp
9780816698516 £9.00 Paperback
Aesop's Anthropology
A Multispecies Approach
John Hartigan Jr.
A guide for thinking through the perplexing predicaments and encounters that arise as the line between human and nonhuman shifts in modern life. Recognizing that culture is not unique to humans, John Hartigan Jr. asks what we can learn about culture from other species. This interlinked series of brief essays explores how we can think differently about being human.
