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p18 Mariela Acuña and Allison Peters Quinn

The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige

p14 Stacy Alaimo The Abyss Stares Back

pp22–23 Arnold R. Alanen The Scenic Route

Michel Serres Interference HERMES

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p31 Javier Arbona-Homar Explosivity

p10 Talia Mae Bettcher Beyond Personhood

p38 Suzanne Bost Quiet Methodologies

pp8–9 Jessica D. Brier Typophoto

p43 Tessa Laird Cinemal

p45 William Lempert Dreaming Down the Track

p20 L. David Mech Wolf Island

p40 Juan Meneses Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination

p41 Alexander Menrisky Everyday Ecofascism

p48 Jules O'Dwyer The Seduction of Space

p26 John Owens One Spring Up North

p27 Tamara Dean Shelter and Storm

p5 Gilles Deleuze On Painting

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p30 Thomas R. Parker Paranatures in Culinary Culture

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p33 Derek S. Denman Fortress Power

p52 Laurent Dubreuil Humanities in the Time of AI

p39 Jonathan P. Eburne Exploded Views

p50 Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Amade Aouatef M'charek, and Anne Pollock The Racial Cage

p47 Ignacio G. Galán Furnishing Fascism

p7 Peter Geye A Lesser Light

p42 Joshua Gooch Capitalism Hates You

p21 Cary Griffith Gunflint Falling

p44 Beenash Jafri Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film

p46 Christina Jerne Opposition by Imitation

p6 Deborah Jiang-Stein Lucky Tomorrow

p36 Amari Johnson Under a Black Star

p50 Melody Jue Coralations

p11 Stacia Kalinoski Racing Uphill

p19 Amy Klobuchar The Joy of Politics

p17 Adam Kotsko Late Star Trek

p20 Naa Oyo A. Kwate White Burgers, Black Cash

p32 John Protevi Regimes of Violence

p34 David L. Prytherch Reclaiming the Road

p51 Ela Przybyło Ungendering Menstruation

pp24–25 Phyllis Root and Kelly Povo Chasing Wildflowers

p29 Michael Schumacher Along Lake Michigan

p49 Michel Serres Hermes II

p28 Peter Simons Global Heartland

p16 T-Bone Slim The Popular Wobbly

p35 Daniel Scott Snelson The Little Database

p4 Linda S. Svitak and Christin Jayne Eaton, with Lee Svitak Dean Kitchens of Hope

p37 Tatiana Thieme Hustle Urbanism

p12 Leif Weatherby Language Machines

p15 Joseph Whitson Marketing the Wilderness

p51 Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer Proposals for a Caring Economy

p13 Grant Wythoff A User's Guide to the Age of Tech

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ADAM KOTSKO

Kitchens of Hope

Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home

LINDA S. SVITAK AND CHRISTIN JAYNE EATON, WITH LEE SVITAK DEAN

PHOTOGRAPHY BY TOM WALLACE

Culinary journeys from around the globe: recipes and stories from immigrants to the United States

“Kitchens of Hope proves that recipes are far richer when we honor the human stories behind them. This moving, lovingly constructed cookbook puts the voices of immigrant cooks front and center—and captures the breadth and beauty of the immigrant experience in America.”

—Mayukh Sen, author of Taste Makers

“We are all Americans, and yet in pots in kitchens across the country different aromas and flavors are percolating thanks to immigrants who have brought the flavors from whence they came. This well-done book benefits a great cause: the immigrant cause.”

—Lidia Bastianich, best-selling cookbook author, restaurateur, and Emmy Award–winning public television host

Immigrants carry more than hope as they cross oceans and traverse continents to come to the United States. They hold tightly to stories and recipes, remembrances of what they left behind. Kitchens of Hope brings together these memories from contributors who hail from more than thirty countries, offering a glimpse into their kitchens and insight into their lives. This book is a celebration of people and cuisines from

around the world, infused with the aromas of epazote and cardamom, the tang of fish sauce, the heat of chile peppers, and the bite of mustard greens.

With tales as compelling as the brimming bowls and overflowing platters, Kitchens of Hope features immigrants coming from vastly varied circumstances. Some arrived in the United States fleeing war and violence, others were seeking education and opportunity; some have called the United States home for years, and others only recently arrived. Despite the differing situations that brought them here, each person finds comfort and tradition as they gather to share meals with family and friends.

Structured around the contributors’ personal stories of their journeys, the chapters reflect the main themes connecting them: community, resilience, opportunity, justice, hope, and celebration. In these pages, readers will find inspiration, along with more than fifty recipes, from curry, mole, biryani, and borscht, to pita, pho, sambusa, pupusas, and so much more. Welcome to the Kitchens of Hope table.

Linda S. Svitak served as a trial lawyer at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath for thirty-five years. She has volunteered with the Advocates for Human Rights for more than a decade.

Christin Jaye Eaton has been an attorney at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath for thirty years. Her pro bono service has included cases involving immigrant status.

Lee Svitak Dean spent four decades writing about food for the Star Tribune Taste section. She is coauthor of The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book, also published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Tom Wallace has received national recognition for his food photography in the Star Tribune’s Taste section.

COOKBOOK

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JUNE

240 pages 90 color plates 8 x 9

On Painting

Courses, March–June 1981

GILLES DELEUZE

EDITED BY DAVID LAPOUJADE

TRANSLATED BY CHARLES J. STIVALE, WITH THE DELEUZE SEMINARS TRANSLATION COLLECTIVE

Available for the first time in English: the complete and annotated transcripts of Deleuze’s 1981 seminars on painting

From 1970 until 1987, Gilles Deleuze held a weekly seminar at the Experimental University of Vincennes and, starting in 1980, at SaintDenis. In the spring of 1981, he began a series of eight seminars on painting and its intersections with philosophy. The recorded sessions, newly transcribed and translated into English, are now available in their entirety for the first time. Extensively annotated by philosopher David Lapoujade, On Painting illuminates Deleuze’s thinking on artistic creation, significantly extending the lines of thought in his book Francis Bacon

Through paintings and writing by Rembrandt, Delacroix, Turner, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Klee, Pollock, and Bacon, Deleuze explores the creative process, from chaos to the pictorial fact. The introduction and use of color feature prominently as Deleuze elaborates on artistic

and philosophical concepts such as the diagram, modulation, code, and the digital and the analogical. Through this scrutiny, he raises a series of profound and stimulating questions for his students: How does a painter ward off grayness and attain color? What is a line without contour? Why paint at all?

Written and thought in a rhizomatic manner that is thoroughly Deleuzian—strange, powerful, and novel—On Painting traverses both the conception of art history and the possibility of color as a philosophical concept.

Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) coauthored Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus (Minnesota, 1987) with Félix Guattari. He is author of many books, including Francis Bacon, Cinema 1, and Cinema 2, all published in English by the University of Minnesota Press.

David Lapoujade is professor of philosophy at Université Paris 1–Sorbonne. His books include Powers of Time and The Lesser Existences (both from Minnesota).

Charles J. Stivale is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University.

PHILOSOPHY

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JUNE

360 pages 4 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Univocal Series

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Lucky Tomorrow

Stories

DEBORAH JIANG-STEIN

Lives of longing and resilience, searching and belonging in a debut story collection from a memoirist and renowned advocate for change

For a Lucky Tomorrow Buy a Flower Today. Is it true? a prospective customer asks. About the luck? “Absolutely!” Felma says. Flowers, she knows, are all that’s anchored in this world, even if not for long, and like others in these luminous stories, Felma knows what it is to be rootless. In Lucky Tomorrow, Deborah Jiang-Stein presents an unforgettable cast of characters dreaming of redemption, purpose, and connection in a wounded yet beautiful world.

A young girl stuck working at her family’s candy stand. A former priest trapped on a crowded train. A prisoner robbed of the book she’s been writing. A father haunted by his broken family. A woman confined to a psych ward. A reverend caring for her dying housemate. And Felma, a flower vendor, searching for the daughter she gave birth to while in prison, who was swiftly bundled

away. Felma’s story leads us in, through, and around the others—a central beating heart for these lives on the fringes, where Jiang-Stein finds a singular, tenacious humanity.

The stories in Lucky Tomorrow move through settings drawn from the path of the author’s own life: Seattle, where she grew up after being born in an Appalachian prison; Tokyo, where she once lived; the Twin Cities, where she currently resides; and the American South, where she travels for much of her advocacy work with women in prison. Pushing the boundaries of genre, Jiang-Stein delicately layers the stories of these outcasts, eccentrics, and visionaries, gathering them in from the shadows with remarkable empathy and candor, laying bare our shared sorrows and joys.

Deborah Jiang-Stein is an award-winning writer, public speaker, collaborator, and author of the memoir Prison Baby. She is founder of the unPrison Project, working with and mentoring people in prisons to build life skills.

FICTION

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144 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4

A Lesser Light

A Novel

PETER GEYE

On the rocky shores of Lake Superior, a piercing story of selfhood and determinism develops: is the future what we’re handed or what we make of it?

“Reading this book felt like watching some rare celestial event: sky-big, beautiful and strangely tender, and full of a kind of magic at the edge of things that’s impossible to describe and changes you forever to witness.”

—Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You

“This novel is a great feat of literary imagination.”

—Charles Baxter, author of Blood Test

“I will never forget this achingly beautiful story with its prose that sings through the soul.”

—Carol Dunbar, award-winning author of The Net Beneath Us

“Kept me gasping at the turn of every page.”

—Carolyn Holbrook, author of Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify

It’s 1910, and Theodulf Sauer has finally achieved a position befitting his ego: master lighthouse keeper at a newly commissioned station towering above Lake Superior. When his new wife, Willa, arrives on the first spring ferry, it’s clear her life has taken the opposite turn: after being summoned home from college to Duluth when her father dies, she

and her scheming mother find themselves destitute, and Willa is rushed into this ill-suited arranged marriage before she can comprehend her fate.

As the lighthouse station establishes, the new relationship teeters between tense and hostile. Willa takes solace in her learned fascination with the cosmos, especially in viewing the imminent Halley’s Comet. Under ominous night skies, Theodulf stands sentry over the lake, clinging to long-ago and faraway memories of happiness that fill him with longing and shame.

Into this impasse, a clairvoyant girl and her resolute uncle emerge from across the cove. They see through the Sauers’ thin façade and, by turns and in different ways, convey promise, sympathy, and insight that counter Willa’s despair. Armed with renewed self-determination, Willa forges a path to happiness. But before she can grasp it, tragedy comes to their remote beacon, and her future plunges toward a dark unknown.

Set against a brooding and beautiful landscape, A Lesser Light is a story about industry and calamity, science versus superstition, patriarchy’s corrosive power—and the consequences when these forces collide in the wilderness of rapid social change.

PETER GEYE A LESSER LIGHT

Peter Geye is the award-winning author of Safe from the Sea, The Lighthouse Road, Wintering, Northernmost, and The Ski Jumpers (Minnesota, 2022). He lives in Minneapolis with his family.

FICTION

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APRIL

542 pages 6 x 9 NAM

Typophoto

New Typography and the Reinvention of Photography

JESSICA D. BRIER

Unveiling the avant-garde fusion of photography and modern graphic design

The concept Typophoto, the synthesis of photography and typography, was coined by renowned Bauhaus artist and theorist László Moholy-Nagy and played a foundational role in the modernist graphic design movement known as the New Typography. Jessica D. Brier examines how Typophoto was embraced by early graphic designers—a group who ultimately reinvented photography as a tool of modern consumerism.

Typophoto embodied designers’ belief in photography as an efficient form of visual communication, merging the material and the visual by abstracting both typographic and photographic form and transmuting photography into graphic material through the halftone process. Uniquely situating 1920s advertising discourse alongside avant-garde theory and significant interwar photographic concepts, Brier positions Typophoto as an analytical framework for considering how photography—as process, image, material,

and metaphor—was effectively reconceived through the professionalization of graphic design in Europe and the United States. This was particularly true in Germany, where the capitalist ethos driving the country’s economic recovery bolstered the belief that graphics could create ideal reader-consumers.

Tracing Typophoto from its inception through New Typography’s experiments with the medium, Brier demonstrates how photography was used as a tool for manipulating perception as it became a visual language of modern life.

ART HISTORY/DESIGN

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APRIL

288 pages 51 b&w illustrations 44 color plates

7 x 9

Jessica D. Brier is curator of photography at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. She is editor of On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print and coeditor of Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna

Beyond Personhood

An Essay in Trans Philosophy

TALIA MAE BETTCHER

A bold intervention in the philosophical concepts of gender, sex, and self

“This profound and provocative work magisterially demonstrates the maturation of trans philosophy as a subfield, as well as the vitality of a trans approach to philosophy in general.”

—Susan Stryker, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

“Talia Mae Bettcher’s eagerly anticipated book offers an account of trans oppression and trans experience that is rigorous, radical, and entirely original. Beyond Personhood is destined to be a canonical text in trans philosophy.”

—Gayle Salamon, author of The Life and Death of Latisha King

Beyond Personhood provides an entirely new philosophical approach to trans experience, trans oppression, gender dysphoria, and the relationship between gender and identity. Until now, trans experience has overwhelmingly been understood in terms of two reductive frameworks: trans people are either “trapped in the wrong body” or they are oppressed by the gender binary. Both accounts misgender large trans constituencies while distorting their experience, and neither can explain the presentation of trans people as make-believers and deceivers or the serious consequences

thereof. In Beyond Personhood, Talia Mae Bettcher demonstrates how taking this phenomenon seriously affords a new perspective on trans oppression and trans dysphoria—one involving liminal states of “make-believe” that bear positive possibilities for self-recognition and resistance.

Undergirding this account is Bettcher’s groundbreaking theory of interpersonal spatiality—a theory of intimacy and distance that requires rejection of the philosophical concepts of person, self, and subject. She argues that only interpersonal spatiality theory can successfully explain trans oppression and gender dysphoria, thus creating new possibilities for thinking about connection and relatedness.

An essential contribution to the burgeoning field of trans philosophy, Beyond Personhood offers an intersectional trans feminism that illuminates transphobic, sexist, heterosexist, and racist oppressions, situating trans oppression and resistance within a much larger decolonial struggle. By refusing to separate theory from its application, Bettcher shows how a philosophy of depth can emerge from the everyday experiences of trans people, pointing the way to a reinvigoration of philosophy.

Beyond Personhood An Essay in Trans Philosophy

TALIA MAE BETTCHER

PHILOSOPHY/GENDER AND SEXUALITY

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MARCH

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Talia Mae Bettcher is professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles, and coeditor of Trans Philosophy, also published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Racing Uphill

Confronting a Life with Epilepsy

STACIA KALINOSKI

The candid, inspiring story of a woman’s experience with a chronic, unpredictable neurological condition

“Stacia Kalinoski has been an inspiration in my life and my son’s life, giving hope to those with epilepsy through her resolve and willingness to stand up for herself and others with seizure disorders. Her memoir further highlights her amazing fighting spirit. Within these pages, she offers encouragement to millions of Americans who are struggling—emphasizing that they, too, can overcome.”

—Wayne Drash, Emmy Award–winning journalist and author

When twenty-nine-year-old reporter Stacia Kalinoski regained consciousness on a couch at the TV station where she worked, she assumed that she’d had another seizure. But the electrical storm that had just torn through her brain was more destructive than she could have imagined, and the broadcast journalism career she loved swiftly came to an end. Forced to confront the reality of her medical condition, Kalinoski made the risky decision to undergo brain surgery, targeting the epilepsy that was ravaging her life.

In Racing Uphill, Kalinoski describes the seizures that occurred while she was running, which led to her pursuit of an uncertain cure. Rallying the grit she developed as an athlete and engaging the research and reporting skills she acquired as a journalist, she gives us a rare inside look at the ways epilepsy can change a life. Moving beyond her own personal experience, Kalinoski interviews prominent epileptologists to understand how seizures can spread, steal memories, and create strange behaviors and mood disorders. She seamlessly joins what she learned from her research with her own story, offering valuable insight into the experience of grappling with a relentless neurological disease.

The vivid auras that preceded seizures and the damage that followed; the toll of her epilepsy on her family and loved ones; the extraordinary determination her reckoning required—these are all part of Kalinoski’s story of adversity, denial, acceptance, and resilience. In sharing the remarkable opportunity that epilepsy presented for her courage and growth, Stacia Kalinoski speaks to anyone facing an uphill battle and offers inspiration for taking control of one’s own health.

Stacia Kalinoski is an Emmy Award–winning TV news journalist whose documentary Brainstorm premiered on Twin Cities PBS and was nominated for a regional Emmy Award. Before a seizure ended her broadcast journalism career, she reported for television stations in Nebraska, Oregon, and Michigan. She now shares her story as a motivational speaker.

MEMOIR/HEALTH

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JULY

232 pages 7 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/4

Language Machines

Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism

LEIF WEATHERBY

How generative AI systems capture a core function of language

Looking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Leif Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as widely believed, but rather creates culture. This evolution in language, he finds, is one that we are ill-prepared to evaluate, as what he terms “remainder humanism” counterproductively divides the human from the machine without drawing on established theories of representation that include both.

To determine the consequences of using GPT systems for language generation, Weatherby reads linguistic theory in conjunction with the algorithmic architecture of LLMs. He finds that generative AI captures the ways in which

language is at first complex, cultural, and poetic, and only later referential, functional, and cognitive. This process is the semiotic hinge on which an emergent AI culture depends. Weatherby calls for a “general poetics” of computational cultural forms under the formal conditions of the algorithmic reproducibility of language.

Locating the output of LLMs on a spectrum from poetry to ideology, Language Machines concludes that literary theory must be the backbone of a new rhetorical training for our linguistic-computational culture.

Leif Weatherby is associate professor of German and founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. He is author of Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx.

DIGITAL CULTURE/THEORY

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JUNE

264 pages 17 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

Posthumanities Series, volume 74

CULTURAL AI AND THE END OF REMAINDER HUMANISM

L EI F W E A T H ERB Y

A User’s Guide to the Age of Tech

GRANT WYTHOFF

How users experience and influence technological change—when so much of that change feels out of our control

Every day, we casually employ one of the most complex tools ever created, using it to read the news, plan our day, and connect with friends. In A User’s Guide to the Age of Tech, Grant Wythoff investigates the process by which now-ubiquitous technologies like our phones become integrated into our lives, showing how the “gadget” stage—before devices are widely adopted—opens the door for users to co-create these technologies and adapt them toward unexpected ends.

In this elegant, approachable work, Wythoff offers a view of how users make new technology their own, subverting dominant power structures and imagining uses never intended by their creators. Rooted in a detailed look into the history of technique (focusing on how we do things with tools rather than the

tools themselves), A User’s Guide to the Age of Tech proceeds to complicate, and influence, discussion of subjects like the digital divide and AI.

Drawing on a range of sources, including novels, patents, and newspapers, Wythoff explores the vernacular philosophies that have emerged from users and their diverse, everyday practices, bringing down to earth the conversation about digital titans, away from the abstracted domains of server farms and algorithms. Lodging a passionate argument that we know ourselves better than the data brokers who appear to wield influence over our psyches, Wythoff invites readers (and tech users) to imagine their own digital technique, acknowledge their vast expertise, and see its immense value.

Grant Wythoff directs graduate student programs at the Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University. He is cofounder of the cooperative mesh network and digital equity organization Philly Community Wireless and is editor of The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction (Minnesota, 2016).

DIGITAL CULTURE

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MAY

176 pages 6 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Electronic Mediations Series

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The Abyss Stares Back

Encounters with Deep-Sea Life

STACY ALAIMO

In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea?

As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene proliferate, advanced technologies also grant us greater access to the furthest reaches of the world’s oceans, facilitating the discovery of countless new species. Sorting through the implications of this strange paradox, Stacy Alaimo explores the influence this newfound intimacy with the deep sea might have on our broader relationship to the nonhuman world. While many images of these abyssal creatures circulate as shallow clickbait, aesthetic representations can be enticing lures for speculating about their lives, profoundly expanding our environmental concern.

The Abyss Stares Back analyzes a diverse range of scientific, literary, and artistic accounts of deep-sea exploration, including work from the naturalist William Beebe and the artist Else Bostelmann as well as results of the Census of Marine Life that began at the turn of the twenty-first century. As she focuses on oft-overlooked creatures of the deep, such as tubeworms, hatchetfish, siphonophores, and cephalopods, which

are typically cast as “alien,” Alaimo shows how depictions of the deep seas have been enmeshed in long colonial histories and racist constructions of a threatening abyss.

Drawing on feminist environmentalism, posthumanism, science and technology studies, and Indigenous and non-Western perspectives, Alaimo details how our understanding of science is fundamentally altered by aesthetic encounters with these otherworldly life forms. She argues that, although the deep sea is often thought of as a lifeless void with little connection to human existence, our increasing devastation of this realm underscores our ethical obligation to protect the biodiverse life in the depths. When the abyss stares back, it demands recognition.

THE ABYSS STARES BACK STACY ALAIMO

ENCOUNTERS WITH DEEP-SEA LIFE

Stacy Alaimo is professor of English and core faculty member in environmental studies at the University of Oregon. She is author of several books, including Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self and Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (Minnesota, 2016).

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

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MAY

256 pages 12 b&w illustrations 9 color plates 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

Posthumanities Series, volume 72

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Marketing the Wilderness

Outdoor Recreation, Indigenous Activism, and the Battle over Public Lands

JOSEPH WHITSON

How outdoor industry marketing promotes an image of ‘the wilderness’ as an unpeopled haven

Marketing the Wilderness analyzes the relationship between the outdoor recreation industry, public lands in the United States, and Indigenous sovereignty and representation in recreational spaces. Combining social media analysis, digital ethnography, and historical research, Joseph Whitson offers nuanced insights into more than a century of the outdoor recreation industry’s marketing strategies, unraveling its complicity in settler colonialism.

Complicating the narrative of outdoor recreation as a universal good, Whitson introduces the concept of “wildernessing” to describe the physical, legal, and rhetorical production of pristine, empty lands that undergirds the outdoor recreation industry, a process that further disenfranchises Indigenous people from whom these lands were stolen. He demonstrates how companies such as Patagonia and REI align with the mining and drilling industries in

their need to remove Indigenous peoples and histories from valuable lands. And he describes the ways Indigenous and decolonial activists are subverting and resisting corporate marketing strategies to introduce new narratives of place.

Through the lens of environmental justice activism, Marketing the Wilderness reconsiders the ethics of recreational land use, advocating for engagement with issues of cultural representation and appropriation informed by Indigenous perspectives. As he discusses contemporary public land advocacy around places such as Bears Ears National Monument, Whitson focuses on the deeply fraught relationship between the outdoor recreation industry and Indigenous communities. Emphasizing the power of the corporate system and its treatment of land as a commodity under capitalism, he shows how these tensions shape the American idea of “wilderness” and what it means to fight for its preservation.

MARKETING THE WILDERNESS

Outdoor Recreation, Indigenous Activism, and the Battle over Public Lands

JOSEPH WHITSON

Joseph Whitson is a marketing strategist and earned his PhD from the University of Minnesota. His writing has been published in American Quarterly and The Public Historian, and he is founder of Indigenous Geotags, an environmental and decolonial justice–focused blog.

ENVIRONMENT/ACTIVISM

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The Popular Wobbly

Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim

T-BONE SLIM

EDITED BY OWEN CLAYTON AND IAIN M C INTYRE

FOREWORD BY DAVID R. ROEDIGER

The first critical edition of the writings of the prolific radical workers’ newspaper columnist and musician who rode the rails during the Great Depression

"T-Bone Slim was a really impressive person who should be much better known. This anthology shows that his words and ideas are still relevant today."

—Noam Chomsky

The Popular Wobbly brings together a wide selection of writings by T-Bone Slim, the most popular and talented writer belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Slim wrote humorous, polemical pieces, engaging with topics like labor and class injustice, which were mostly published in IWW publications from 1920 until his death in 1942. Although relatively little is known about Slim, editors Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre coalesce the latest research on this enigmatic character to create a vivid portrait that adds valuable context for the array of writings assembled here.

Known as “the laureate of the logging camps,” Slim also composed numerous songs that have been performed and recorded by Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, and Candie Carawan,

who in 1960 updated Slim’s song “The Popular Wobbly” with Civil Rights–era lyrics. Slim’s witticisms, sayings, and exhortations (“Wherever you find injustice, the proper form of politeness is attack”; “Only the poor break laws—the rich evade them”) were widely discussed among fellow hobos across the “jungle” campfires that dotted the railways, and some even transcribed his commentary on boxcars that traveled the country. Yet despite Slim’s importance and fame during his lifetime, his work disappeared from public view almost immediately after his death.

The Popular Wobbly is the first critical edition of Slim’s work and also a significant contribution to literature about working-class writers, the radical labor movement, and the history and culture of nomadism and precarity. With this publication, Slim’s rediscovered writings can once again inspire artists and activists to march and agitate for a more just and equitable world.

Wobbly Popular The

SELECTED WRITINGS OF T-BONE SLIM

Edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre FOREWORD BY DAVID R. ROEDIGER

T-Bone Slim (1882–1942), born Matti Valentinpoika

was a Finnish American humorist, columnist, poet, musician, hobo, and labor activist who was a prominent writer for the Industrial Workers of the World.

Owen Clayton is senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Lincoln in England.

Iain McIntyre is honorary fellow with the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, and researcher at the Commons Social Change Library.

David R. Roediger is Foundation Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas.

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Huhta,

Late Star Trek

The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era

ADAM KOTSKO

How Star Trek’s twenty-first-century reinventions illuminate the unique challenges and opportunities of franchisestyle corporate storytelling

“Combining the rigorous critical eye of a literary and political theorist and the encyclopedic knowledge of a devoted fan, Adam Kotsko offers an original, persuasive, ethical, funny, grim, and nevertheless hopeful examination of Star Trek’s twenty-first-century incarnations. Late Star Trek is a salutary intervention, a sustained, cogent analysis of what’s gone wrong, what’s gone right, and what possibilities remain for creative and critical storytelling in our late-neoliberal streaming era.”

—David K. Seitz, author of A

Different Trek

Late Star Trek explores the beloved science fiction franchise’s repeated attempts to reinvent itself after the end of its 1990s golden age. Beginning with the prequel series Enterprise, Adam Kotsko analyzes the wealth of content set within Star Trek’s sprawling continuity—including authorized books, the three “Kelvin Timeline” films, and the streaming series Discovery, Picard,

Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds—along with fan discourse, to reflect on the perils and promise of the franchise as a unique form of storytelling.

By taking the spin-offs and tie-ins seriously as creative attempts to tell a new story within an established universe, Late Star Trek highlights creative triumphs as well as the tendency for franchise faithfulness to get in the way of creating engaging characters and ideas. Arguing forcefully against the prevailing consensus that franchises are a sign of cultural decay, Kotsko finds that what limits creativity within franchises is not their reliance on the familiar but their status as modern myths, held not as common cultural heritage but rather owned as corporate intellectual property.

LATE STAR TREK

the FINAL FRONTIER in the FRANCHISE ERA

POPULAR CULTURE/CINEMA AND MEDIA

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MARCH

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Mass Markets: Storyworlds Across Media Series

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A NEW SERIES MASS MARKETS: STORYWORLDS ACROSS MEDIA

Mass Markets investigates an archive that traditional scholarship typically ignores— from video game franchises to Hollywood television and movie blockbusters—even as it expands that archive to include cultural productions by marginalized auteurs and

beyond North America and Europe. These studies are written for critics and fans interested in thinking through the pleasures and narrative problems mass markets and their fandoms create.

ADAM KOTSKO

Adam Kotsko teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College and is author of several books.

The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige

MARIELA ACUÑA AND ALLISON PETERS QUINN, EDITORS

The first book to focus on experimental artist and designer Robert Paige

Robert Earl Paige is one of the most iconic artists and designers from Chicago’s South Side. A multidisciplinary artist and arts educator, he works across textile design, painting, collage, and sculpture. During the 1970s, he brought West African–inspired patterns to U.S. shoppers through the Dakkabar fabrics collection available at Sears, Roebuck, leading to the inclusion of Black culture in home design.

In addition to exploring Paige’s personal and artistic practice, The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige contextualizes his work in relation to social and artistic movements, from the minimalism and abstraction of the 1960s and 1970s to AfriCOBRA and the Black Arts Movement in Chicago and across the United States. Curator Allison Peters Quinn collaborates with Paige to offer inspiration and tools for younger artists to develop lifelong creative practices. An interview between Paige and fiber artist Anne Wilson traces his

career path, starting as a young designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; his travel to West Africa, South Africa, and Milan; his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago; and features insights into Paige’s influences; his friendships with important cultural figures such as James Baldwin; his interest in blurring boundaries between design, art, and craft; and his teaching philosophies.

Published in conjunction with Paige’s exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center in 2024, this fully illustrated book includes reproductions of the artist’s handpainted scarves, collages, and rugs made during the past sixty years, along with new ceramic tiles, collages, and textiles.

is a curator and art administrator.

is exhibitions and residency manager at Hyde Park Art Center and has worked at the Norton Museum of Art and the University Galleries at Florida Atlantic University.

Allison Peters Quinn is a curator, art administrator, and educator. She is director of exhibitions and residency at Hyde Park Art Center and has organized significant exhibitions for emerging and established artists, including Candida Alvarez, Faheem Majeed, Edra Soto, and Lan Tuazon.

ART/DESIGN

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Mariela

Mariela Acuña

She

The Joy of Politics

Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life’s Other Unexpected Curveballs

AMY KLOBUCHAR

An intimate and revelatory memoir on personal challenges, political turmoil, and the state of American democracy— now in paperback with a new preface

“Minnesota Senator Klobuchar faces an onslaught of personal and political challenges with folksy candor in this entertaining memoir. . . . pragmatic and genuine.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Drawing on inspiring ‘life lessons’ opening each chapter, Klobuchar’s memoir overflows with optimism and, yes, joy.”

—Booklist

“Klobuchar’s humor and grounded personality shine through in her fourth book . . . showcasing her resilience and strength.”

—Observer

During the past few years, as our country has faced unprecedented challenges, Senator Amy Klobuchar has been in the room where it happens—on the Senate floor for critical votes during the pandemic, at the debate podium during one of the most crucial presidential primaries in U.S. history, and in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when insurrectionists stormed the building, interrupting the certification of the Electoral College. It was

well past midnight when Klobuchar stood beside then–Vice President Pence to officially certify President Biden's victory.

In her candid, honest, and at times bitingly funny memoir, the pragmatic senator shares insider stories from these historic moments, while also inviting readers into her personal life. An underdog in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign, she built surprising early momentum, only to suspend her candidacy in order to support Joe Biden. Within weeks of returning to work in the Senate, the sudden onslaught of Covid-19 hit her family directly: her husband was hospitalized for a week and spent a month in isolation. Klobuchar shares her experience facing a cancer diagnosis while her beloved father succumbs to Alzheimer's. She recounts the dramatic narrative of January 6 and how close we came to losing our democracy. And, with her signature humor, she reveals what it's like to work with some of her more . . . well, interesting . . . colleagues.

At the crux of these stories is a narrative of resilience—of personal resilience and the resilience of a nation—and, improbably, joy.

Amy Klobuchar, the daughter of a journalist and a schoolteacher, is the senior senator from Minnesota, the first woman from the state to be elected to the U.S. Senate. A national leader in the Democratic party, she ran for president in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary and has a well-earned reputation for working across the aisle to pass legislation that supports families, workers, and small businesses. She and her husband, John, live in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C.

MEMOIR/POLITICS

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White Burgers, Black Cash

Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation

NAA OYO A. KWATE

Wolf Island Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal

L. DAVID MECH WITH GREG BREINING FOREWORD BY ROLF O. PETERSON

The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community

“This riveting and accessible exploration of fast food’s troubled racial transformation is necessary reading for anyone concerned about inequitable food environments. A masterpiece.”

—Bryant Terry, James Beard and NAACP Image Award–winning editor of Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora

Deeply researched, compellingly told, and brimming with surprising details, White Burgers, Black Cash traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long history of racist exclusion to its current damaging embrace of urban Black communities.

Naa Oyo A. Kwate is a nonfiction writer and interdisciplinary scholar focused on African American urban life. She has previously served on the faculties of Columbia and Rutgers University.

James Beard Media Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship

Urban Affairs Association Best Book in Urban Affairs

Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award

Society for the Study of Social Problems Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award

Association for Humanist Sociology Betty and McClung Lee Book Award

HISTORY/AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES/FOOD

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472

The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature’s most iconic creatures—now in paperback

“A lively, well-told story that sheds new light on the early days of ecology’s most important long-term study, the formative years of a master biologist, and the complex lives of an iconic and misunderstood predator.”

—Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

“Fans of wolves, field biology, and good natural history writing will welcome Mech’s longoverdue reminiscences.”

—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Wolf Island recounts three extraordinary summers and winters

L. David Mech spent on the isolated outpost of Isle Royale National Park, tracking and observing wolves and moose on foot and by airplane—and upending the common misperception of wolves as destructive killers of insatiable appetite.

L. David Mech is a senior research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. He is founder of the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota. Greg Breining has written for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic Traveler, and Audubon Rolf O. Peterson is research professor at Michigan Technological University, where he has led the wolf–moose study at Isle Royale since the early 1970s.

NATURE/MEMOIR

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JUNE

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Gunflint Falling

Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

CARY J. GRIFFITH

Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster—now in paperback

"In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, Cary J. Griffith brings readers into the Boundary Waters moment by moment as an epic gale sweeps through. Ample maps and in-depth interviews with witnesses immerse us in one terrifying day and offer a glimpse of the past and future of Minnesota’s boreal forest."

— Kim Todd, author of Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters”

“Rich with first-person accounts, Griffith’s book confronts the majesty and terror of nature while emphasizing the fragility of our beloved boreal forest.”

—Duluth News Tribune

“Creative nonfiction at its best.”

—Pioneer Press

“An exciting read, packed with information and bolstered by meticulous reportage.”

—Minnesota History

“Captivating and hard to put down.”

—Lake Superior Magazine

On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region’s history. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm from the perspectives of those who were on the ground before, during, and after the catastrophic event. As the afternoon and evening settled over the Boundary Waters, the first eyewitness accounts began to tell a dramatic and terrifying story of the derecho storm taking shape. The sky turned green, the winds began to whip, and trees snapped and toppled, their twisted root balls torn out of the water-logged earth. By the time the storm began to subside, falling trees had injured approximately sixty people, and most needed to be medevacked to safety. Amazingly, no one died. The historic storm laid down timber that would later blaze in the Ham Lake fire of 2007, ultimately reshaping the region’s forests in ways we have yet to fully understand.

Cary J. Griffith is author of several books, including Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary Waters, also published by the University of Minnesota Press, and Dead Catch, part of the Sam Rivers mystery series. He is the recipient of a Minnesota Book Award and a Midwest Book Award.

NATURAL HISTORY/REGIONAL

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AVAILABLE

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The Scenic Route

Building Minnesota’s North Shore

ARNOLD R. ALANEN

A guide to the built environment and history of one of the Midwest’s most popular roads

“Arnold R. Alanen inspires a truly meaningful sense of place with his practiced eye and passion for deeper understanding. Like the remarkably beautiful North Shore natural and cultural landscape, this book merits revisiting and rediscovery time and again.”

—Steve C. Martens, architectural historian

“The Scenic Route solves many mysteries and documents our human imprint on the North Shore in detail. From the early mailruns of John Beargrease to Mineral Center and the Outlaw Bridge, this book connects the people and places along the route to our shared, often complicated history.”

—Staci Lola Drouillard, author of Walking the Old Road

“A superb exploration of the cultural history and built environment of the North Shore.”

—Timothy Cochrane, author of Making the Carry and Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais

Journey along Minnesota’s North Shore, the spectacular Lake Superior coastline between Duluth and the Canadian border, and travel through natural and cultural splendor. The North Shore Scenic Drive, the stretch of Minnesota Highway 61 that leads

you through tunnels and remarkable vistas, crosses rivers and streams and rocky divides as it makes its way through fishing villages, logging sites, tourist enclaves, Grand Portage National Monument, Superior National Forest, and numerous state parks that have made the North Shore a beloved destination for generations. This is the North Shore explored in The Scenic Route, a field guide to the cultural landscape that comprises one of the Midwest’s most famous byways and a journey deep into its evolution from primeval wilderness to All-American Road.

The highway corridor and lakeshore offer evidence of human activities that began after the retreat of glacial ice, when the Anishinaabe people plied the waters of Lake Superior. Arnold R. Alanen follows the area's denizens and visitors, exploring the material world they built along the way: cabins and resorts, docks and fish houses, farms and logging operations, as well as churches, cemeteries, streetscapes, bridges, schools, lighthouses, parks, waysides, and roadside attractions. Interwoven with his tour of the built environment are stories of the people who shaped the cultural heritage along Minnesota’s North Shore.

SCENIC ROUTE SCENIC ROUTE

BUILDING MINNESOTA’S NORTH SHORE

Arnold R. Alanen, born, raised, and educated in Minnesota, is professor emeritus of planning and landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town (Minnesota, 2007) and Finns in Minnesota; coauthor of Main Street

Ready-Made: The New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin; and coeditor of Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America

ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY/REGIONAL

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Chasing Wildflowers

An Adventurous Guide to Finding Minnesota’s Native Flowers in Their Unique Habitats

PHYLLIS ROOT

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KELLY POVO

An intrepid search for Minnesota’s wildflower treasures in out-of-the-way places

Beyond Minnesota’s sunlit prairies and lush north woods, wonders of wildflowers bloom, gracing fens and forested swamps, sand dunes and the rocky North Shore, even ditches and abandoned mine dumps. Venturing farther afield than their first book Searching for Native Wildflowers, Phyllis Root and Kelly Povo set out to explore smaller, less-traveled habitats throughout the state and find these hidden gems of nature. Chasing Wildflowers brings us along on their pursuit of Minnesota’s native wildflowers.

Featuring Povo’s gorgeous photographs and Root’s finely detailed descriptions of nearly two hundred species, Chasing Wildflowers is both a handy guidebook and an entertaining chronicle of the thrills and occasional mishaps of the friends’ searches, from wading rivers and climbing rocky outcrops to getting their boots stuck in deep muck while on the run from an approaching storm. Here, readers will find twenty-eight of the orchids growing in Minnesota, forty-three of the state’s rare species, and flowers with names like Allegheny monkey flower, hairy false

goldenaster, naked miterwort, and spoon-leaf sundew—as well as plenty of inspiration to set off on their own adventures.

Neither botanists nor biologists, Root and Povo are wildflower enthusiasts determined to learn about native wildflowers wherever they can be found, providing readers with all the information they might need to find and identify rare and intriguing species in unexpected places. Along with their tales of adventure and exploration are resources and practical tips for your own outings, a glossary, and suggestions for helping preserve native habitats and wildflowers.

A uniquely useful and engrossing resource for gardeners, naturalists, artists, hikers, photographers, and beyond, Chasing Wildflowers is the ultimate guide for anyone curious to learn more about our beautiful and surprising natural world.

Chasing Wildflowers

An

to

Phyllis Root is author of more than fifty books, including Plant a Pocket of Prairie and One North Star, both published by the University of Minnesota Press and recipients of the John Burroughs Riverby Award for nature writing for children.

Kelly Povo, a professional photographer for the past thirty years, has exhibited in galleries and art shows across the country. She and Phyllis collaborated on Searching for Minnesota’s Native Wildflowers, also published by the University of Minnesota Press.

NATURE/REGIONAL

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Phyllis Root Photography by Kelly Povo

Adventurous Guide

Finding Minnesota’s Native Flowers in Their Unique Habitats

One Spring Up North

JOHN OWENS

A family canoes through the northern wilderness as it awakens to the warming season in this wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters

"A beautiful and welcome celebration of spring in the Boundary Waters that brings the changes of the season to life in delicately rendered illustrations. No words are necessary for readers to delight in the drama John Owens captures of ice out, wind, waves, and the arrival of life returning to the North. This story makes me want to pack up my gear and head North!"

—Lauren Stringer, illustrator and author of Winter Is the Warmest Season

As spring stirs the world of the Boundary Waters and wildlife awakens, let’s venture out, too. Paddle the canoe into warmer days as winter melts away. Mama bears come out of hibernation, and fox kits poke their curious noses out of their dens. Birds return from their southern journeys, flirting and calling, flying overhead, gathering grasses and sticks for their nests. As we cut through

cold water under the bluest of skies, fish surface and jump, turtles sun themselves on a log, and a loon makes her melancholy call. When we pull up to portage across an island and stop to camp on its shore, the majestic pines offer shelter from the sharp, chilly wind while other trees bud with new leaves and wildflowers raise their colorful petals to the soft spring light. Nature is wild here, so night in the woods might be scary, but the family is warm and safe, pulling together like the animal families all around to greet the dawning season while the waters gather and rush.

Moving with confident grace, this charming wordless picture book with its detailed, colored-pencil illustrations invites you to join this canoeing and camping family on their journey through the natural splendors of the Boundary Waters as they experience the cycle of life in the wild.

CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK

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John Owens is a freelance illustrator and author of One Summer Up North and One Winter Up North, both published by the University of Minnesota Press and inspired by his travels to explore the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in all its seasons.

Shelter and Storm

At Home in the Driftless

TAMARA DEAN

Living mindfully with nature during a time of uncertainty

“In this remarkable collection of essays, Tamara Dean conveys the depth of our connection to the natural world with careful research and gentle words, bringing the Driftless area of Wisconsin to life. Shelter and Storm is regional literature at its finest. These smoothly flowing essays reveal both the character of the author and the character of the land in equal measure.”

—Joan Maloof, author of Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest

In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest drew her to a landscape unlike any other: the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, a region untouched by glaciers, marked by steep hills and deeply carved valleys, capped with forests and laced with cold, spring-fed streams. There, she confronted, in ways large and small, the challenges of meeting basic needs while facing the ravages of climate change—an experience at once soul-stirring and practical that she recounts in Shelter and Storm

Dean’s boundless curiosity and gift for storytelling imbue these essays with urgency and a sense of adventure. She invites readers to share in her discoveries while hunting for water, learning that a persistent weed could be food, or burning a hayfield to recreate a prairie. Contending with the fallout of fires, floods, and tornadoes, she offers responses to natural disasters that reflect the importance of community, now and for generations to come. Whether tracking down a rare, blue-glowing firefly, engineering a beaver-friendly waterway to appease a dying neighbor, or building a house of earthen blocks, Dean unites personal experience with science and history, presenting a perspective as informative as it is compelling.

Keenly attentive to the stakes for our planet’s future—and the implications of extreme weather, shifting agricultural practices, and political divides—Shelter and Storm illuminates a thoughtful way forward for anyone concerned about climate change and its far-reaching consequences or for anyone searching, as Dean has, for a more sustainable way to live.

SHELTER STORM

At Home in the Driftless

TAMARA DEAN AND

Tamara Dean has been camping, fishing, hiking, and gathering wild foods from an early age, led and inspired by her parents. Her essays and stories have been published in The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, the Guardian, One Story, Orion, and The Progressive, and she is author of The Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles over Motors. She teaches writing independently and through writing centers across the nation.

ESSAYS/NATURE

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Global Heartland

Cultivating the American Century on the Midwestern Farm

PETER SIMONS

Highlighting the critical role of midwestern farmers in the creation of the American Century

“This rich and revealing book reclaims the role of not-soisolated Midwestern farmers in American diplomatic history—and transforms the way we think about the rural heartland.”

—Michael J. Lansing, author of Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics

Though often left out of the story of the making of the American Century, the farmers of the Midwest were at its center, fueling the nation’s growing power in the midtwentieth century. In Global Heartland, Peter Simons explores how, after decades of slipping to the margins of an urbanizing economy, these farmers assumed renewed strategic and cultural importance as they produced essential sustenance for overseas troops and food rations for a domestic population.

During the mid-1900s, once-isolationist midwestern farmers came to see the continental interior not as an insulated space but as an environmentally rich landscape that mandated them to accept a larger stake in global affairs. Simons traces this

transformation from an older agrarian internationalism rooted in religion and ties to family abroad to illuminate the increasing influence of the U.S. agricultural community during the Cold War. Examining regional political parties, Lend-Lease programs, wartime mass media, and farmer-led relief programs, and interspersing this history with vignettes revisiting the Mercy Wheat campaign of 1947, the postwar International Farm Youth Exchange, and the Flying Farmers organization, Simons offers an enlightening consideration of midwestern farmers’ involvement in America’s international ascent.

Unique in its focus on farmers and their work rather than the more common attention to food or agricultural commodities, Global Heartland complicates and expands ideas of the farm industry’s role in American history.

AMERICAN HISTORY/ECONOMY

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Peter Simons is a historian in upstate New York.

Along Lake Michigan

Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER

Notable shipwrecks of Lake Michigan throughout a century of enterprise, industry, heroism, and disaster on the Great Lakes

The Great Lakes are graveyards of a vast number of shipwrecks (30,000 by some estimates), and Lake Michigan has more than the other four lakes combined. The stories of those wrecks tell the history of that mighty lake in its endless, mercurial challenge to human endeavor.

Surveying the wreckage throughout the decades, from the fiery end of the twin propeller–driven Phoenix in 1847 to the failure of the Anna Minch to outrun the infamous 1940 Armistice Day storm, Michael Schumacher charts the course of shipping disasters great and small on Lake Michigan. He illuminates the details of maritime weather and shipcraft, the lives devoted to and lost on the water, and the mistakes and monumental failures that led to these ships’ watery ends. Schumacher’s deft storytelling, drawing from deep research and comprehensive knowledge, brings forth the vivid details of the last minutes of these doomed ships, along with

the circumstances surrounding their voyages. Here are tragic tales like that of the the deadliest shipwreck in Great Lakes history, lost while docked in the Chicago River; the Rouse Simmons loaded with Christmas trees; the train ferry Milwaukee and the Wisconsin freighter, gone within one week of each other in October 1929; and the passenger vessel the Lady Elgin, a devastating loss met with incredible heroism.

Liberally illustrated with historical photographs, the stories of these shipwrecks, spanning a full century of commercial traffic on Lake Michigan, document the myriad forms of bravery and misfortune that mark our encounters with the Great Lakes.

ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN

LIFE AND LOSS MICHAEL

SCHUMACHER

Michael Schumacher is the author of several books on Great Lakes shipwrecks, including Mighty Fitz, November’s Fury, Torn in Two, and The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald (all from Minnesota). He has written narratives for twenty-five Great Lakes shipwreck and lighthouse documentary films. He lives in Wisconsin close to the shores of Lake Michigan.

HISTORY/REGIONAL

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JUNE

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Paranatures in Culinary Culture

An Alimentary Ecology

THOMAS R. PARKER

Uncovering the intricate cultural threads that inform our dietary practices

Paranatures in Culinary Culture embarks on a gastronomic odyssey, redefining foods we thought we knew and revealing the extraordinary stories of ordinary ingredients and the cultural forces shaping our diets. The book begins with a simple premise: to eat is to assimilate the outer world into the inner body, both physically and mentally. But what happens when this assimilation process goes awry? Thomas R. Parker reveals how culinary staples are not only elements of identity formation but also instruments of cultural disruption when their true nature emerges and challenges our preconceptions.

Parker explores how certain foods—bread, oysters, pigs, cheese, and wine—can both create and destabilize narratives, unsettle assimilation, and decenter Western culinary traditions. Taking inspiration from architectural historian David Gissen’s concept of “subnature” and Michel Serres’s idea of

the “parasite,” Parker develops the concept of paranatures: flavors, foods, and practices considered unpalatable by different societies at different times. He reveals how certain ordinary foods live parallel paranatural lives, addressing larger issues of colonial and postcolonial food theory and challenging long-held notions that cuisine was meant to uphold.

Serving up a rich blend of history, culture, and gastronomy, Parker leads readers to perceive food as an adventure, inviting them to taste the untamed side of nature. He offers a thought-provoking invitation to reconceptualize the roles and narratives we assign to the natural world and its produce, allowing us to see food, nature, and ourselves in new ways.

Paranatures in Culinary Culture

Thomas R. Parker is associate professor and chair of French and Francophone studies at Vassar College. He is author of Volition, Rhetoric, and Emotion in the Work of Pascal and Tasting French Terroir: The History of an Idea.

CULTURAL STUDIES/THEORY

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Explosivity

Following What Remains

JAVIER ARBONA-HOMAR

WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREA GAFFNEY

How explosions across history reveal the violence embedded in San Francisco’s landscape

Offering a novel approach to contemporary landscape studies, Explosivity unearths the hidden legacies of violence that have shaped the physical and cultural environment of the San Francisco Bay area. As he sifts through the historical debris of previous centuries, Javier Arbona-Homar analyzes a series of explosions that took place between 1866 and 2011 to call attention to the scattered remnants of militarism and racialized capitalism embedded in the region’s geography.

From incidents involving nineteenth-century explosives manufacturing and World War II munitions loading to radical activism and contemporary television productions, ArbonaHomar locates a pattern of historical violence that refocuses the broader racial and colonial context. Citing the material, social, and political conditions that gave rise to these

disparate episodes, he reviews the historic erasure of those driving forces and puts forth alternative possibilities for how such disasters might be memorialized.

Synthesizing a diverse set of field research methods, including oral histories and site visits, and supplemented by specially commissioned landscape photographs by Andrea Gaffney, Explosivity presents a radical exercise in the exposition of public memory.

explosivity

Javier Arbona-Homar is assistant professor in American studies and design at the University of California, Davis.

Andrea Gaffney is a landscape and architecture photographer and urban designer based in San Francisco.

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FOLLOWING WHAT REMAINS Javier Arbona-Homar

Regimes of Violence

Toward

a Political Anthropology

JOHN PROTEVI

A wide-ranging examination of the roots— and possible future—of violence in human societies

Is aggression inevitable among humans? In Regimes of Violence, John Protevi explores how human violence originates and exists in our societies. Taking humans as biocultural (that is, our social practices shape our bodies and minds), he shows how aggression does not arrive from any purely biological predisposition but rather occurs only in social regimes of violence that, by manipulating the ways in which culture can shape our biological inheritance of rage and aggression, condition the forms of violence able to be expressed at any one time.

Offering detailed insights into human aggression throughout history, Protevi’s analysis ranges from evolutionary psychology to affective ideology and finally to an alternate politics of joy. He examines a wide range of seemingly disparate topics, such as cooperation between early nomadic foragers, organized sports, berserkers and blackout rages, the experiences of maroons escaping slavery, the January 6 invasion of the United States Capitol building, and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. As he entwines the

philosophical with the anthropological, he asks readers to consider why humans’ capacity for cooperation and sharing is so persistently overlooked by stories that focus on aggression and warfare.

Regimes of Violence is an important contribution to studies of Deleuze and Guattari, uniquely combining cuttingedge investigations in psychology, history, evolutionary theory, cultural anthropology, and philosophy to examine the “political philosophy of the mind.” Presenting to readers a refreshingly optimistic perspective, Protevi demonstrates that we are not doomed to war and argues that humans can build a world based on antifascism, joy, and mutual empowerment.

John Protevi is professor of French studies and philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is author of Political Affect; Life, War, Earth; and Edges of the State, all published by the University of Minnesota Press.

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Fortress Power

Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control

DEREK S. DENMAN

A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosure

Fortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and political technology intent on obstruction, tracing its implementation across battlefields, borders, and urban environments. Drawing on the influential work of philosophers Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, Derek S. Denman places the fortress alongside the archetypes of the prison and the camp, citing them as paradigmatic of how space is transformed into a tool of domination and control.

Focusing on the defensive architecture of bastion fortresses, urban design, and border landscapes, Fortress Power charts the rise of a form of governance grounded in hostility, extending the scope of its subject from a piece of military construction to a much broader political concept. Detailing how power manifests in everything from city centers to international boundaries, the book analyzes

the logic of fortification as it moves through various contexts in the advancement of surveillance, exploitation, warfare, and political authority.

Through a unique blend of architecture and design studies, political theory, international relations, geography, and migration studies, Denman outlines the disquieting legacy of the fortress to highlight its role in the formation of modern government and the enactment of violence. In an era marked by the increasing prevalence of authoritarian power and conflicting geopolitical boundaries, he presents an insightful investigation of the weaponization of the built environment.

Fortress Power

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Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control

Derek S. Denman

Derek S. Denman earned his PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University.

Reclaiming the Road

Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets

DAVID L. PRYTHERCH

Imagining equitable streets for all

For the past century, our roadways have been engineered as pipes for cars, but they offer vast potential as public spaces. From New York and Boston to Portland and Los Angeles, cities are rethinking their streets, going beyond sidewalks and bike lanes to welcome nonmotorists to share the asphalt roadway. Reclaiming the Road traces the historical evolution of America’s streets and explores contemporary movements to retake them from cars—temporarily and permanently—for diverse forms of mobility and community life. To share the street raises important questions of equity, in transportation and beyond. David L. Prytherch proposes a bold, intersectional vision of a more just street.

Reclaiming the Road connects cuttingedge theory, policy analysis, and firsthand accounts from those leading the charge in transforming our streets to advocate for changing how we think about and design roads. Prytherch features case studies of nine major cities in the United States to show how experiments in reclaiming streets accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic to

become lasting changes. Through in-depth interviews, he shares stories of how planners, transportation advocates, and community leaders have implemented innovative programs for slowing neighborhood streets, opening roads for walking and biking, and reconstructing roadways with public parklets and street plazas as social spaces for curbside conversation.

Examining movements to transform streets through the lenses of equity and justice, Reclaiming the Road tackles the conceptual challenge of defining mobility justice and the practicalities of planning a more just public street, offering a compelling vision for the future of America’s public spaces.

David L. Prytherch is professor of geography at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is author of Law, Engineering, and the American Right-of-Way: Imagining a More Just Street and coeditor of Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space

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The Little Database

A Poetics of Media Formats

DANIEL SCOTT SNELSON

A poetics for reading the everyday objects that populate a hard drive

Bespoke online archives like PennSound and Eclipse host an astounding array of “old media” artifacts, posing a handcrafted counterpoint to the immense databases aggregated by digital titans like Google and Facebook. In The Little Database, Daniel Scott Snelson argues for the significance of these comparatively “small” collections, exploring how digital archives dramatically transform the artifacts they host and how they might help us better understand our own private collections in turn.

Examining curated collections such as Textz, UbuWeb, and the Electronic Poetry Center, Snelson explores media-specific works by poets and artists, including William Carlos Williams, Tracie Morris, bill bissett, Nam June Paik, and Vicki Bennett. He develops creative tools and contingent methods for reading cultural data, whether found on the internet or in our own collections of TXT, JPG, MP3, and MOV artifacts, presenting case studies to

show how these objects have come to find revised meaning in their digital contexts. Along the way, experimental poetic interludes give readers practical entry points into the creative practice of producing new meanings in any given little database.

Inventive and interdisciplinary, The Little Database grapples with the digitized afterlives of cultural objects, showing how the past is continually reconfigured to shape the present. It invites readers to find playful and personal means for unpacking their own data collections, in the process discovering idiosyncratic ways to explore and connect with digital archives.

The Lit tle Database

DANIEL SCOTT SNELSON

Daniel Scott Snelson is a writer, editor, archivist, and assistant professor in the departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA, where he also serves as faculty with the Digital Humanities Program, the UCLA Game Lab, and the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies. He is author of multiple volumes of experimental poetry and poetics, including Elden Poem, Apocalypse Reliquary, and EXE TXT

DIGITAL CULTURE/MEDIA STUDIES

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Under a Black Star

The Maroon Impulse in New Orleans

AMARI JOHNSON

Uncovering the spirit of freedom and self-determination in New Orleans

In Under a Black Star, Amari Johnson explores what he defines as the “maroon impulse” among the BlackStar Community in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. This community sought autonomy for Black people facing systemic marginalization through denied employment, insufficient education, and a housing crisis following Hurricane Katrina, establishing initiatives such as Kamali Academy, a homeschool collective, and BlackStar Books and Caffé, a bookstore and gathering place. Instead of appealing to the city, they built the community they desired by employing legacies of marronage: disengagement, flight, and reengagement.

An active participant in the physical and ideological development of these autonomous spaces, Johnson provides nuanced insights into the community’s work toward liberation and self-determination. Demonstrating that marronage is a cultural tradition throughout

the African Diaspora, he focuses on the transtemporal maroon process to show how it is central to the pursuit of autonomy, community, and freedom.

From the swamps of southeastern Louisiana, across urban obstacles, and into BlackStar’s creative spaces, Johnson’s path leads him to ask: How did the New Orleans community mobilize the tradition of marronage to create autonomous spaces amid gentrification? What forms might the maroon impulse take in the twenty-first century? This dynamic ethnographic memoir ultimately illuminates marronage as a potent form of liberatory potential, offering strategies for similar communities across the country and around the world.

UNDER A BLACK STAR

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THE MAROON IMPULSE IN NEW ORLEANS

AMARI JOHNSON

Amari Johnson is an independent scholar, musician, and filmmaker based in Philadelphia.

Hustle Urbanism

Making Life Work in Nairobi

TATIANA THIEME

Exploring hustle as a social, cultural, and economic phenomenon in contemporary Nairobi

In Nairobi’s underserved neighborhoods, “hustle” has emerged as both a vital survival strategy and a way of life for youth. Exploring the multiple meanings and manifestations of the hustle economy across different scenarios of provisioning, distribution, exchange, learning, and mobilizing, Hustle Urbanism draws on more than a decade of ethnographic engagement to center the logics, perspectives, and inventive strategies of a group of youth who constantly navigate job scarcity, inadequate basic services, and climate-induced harms.

Tatiana Thieme shows how young people develop tools of resistance against the legacies of colonial violence and uneven urban development while carving out spaces of opportunity for themselves and their peers. The stories she includes bring thick ethnographic detail and longitudinal perspective to the lives and livelihoods

of youth whose diverse skill sets and knowledges span from circular economies and eco-activism to hip hop and local leadership. Filling a significant gap in both existing scholarship and popular discussion, Hustle Urbanism offers critical theorization of precarious urban environments and the affirmative modes of making life work in the city against the odds.

While Thieme cautions against fetishizing hustle as a form of social and economic uplift, she calls for a greater recognition of the ingenuity and skill involved in hustle urbanism, arguing that studying hustle narratives and practices opens up timely empirical and theoretical questions about overlapping urban struggles and possibilities that coexist in the everyday city.

HUSTLE URBANISM

GEOGRAPHY/URBAN STUDIES

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Making Life Work in Nairobi TATIANA THIEME

Tatiana Thieme is associate professor of human geography at University College London.

Quiet Methodologies

Humility in the Humanities

SUZANNE BOST

Reimagining humanities scholarship with humility and inclusive attention

How might foregrounding the writings of colonized peoples transform the ways we work in the humanities? In an era dominated by loud political rhetoric, Suzanne Bost advocates for quieter modes of scholarship: intellectual humility rather than ego, collaboration and conversation rather than singular argumentation, continual reflection and revision rather than defensiveness, and a willingness to believe in different ways of being and knowing rather than adhering to academic norms. With Quiet Methodologies, she demonstrates practical decolonial scholarship and proposes alternative approaches for fostering meaningful engagement.

Turning to feminist, queer, and decolonial writings from Gloria Anzaldúa, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Audre Lorde, and many others, Bost reflects on what we do when we work with literature, culture, and ideas. She weaves together multiple voices, methods of writing, and culturally diverse epistemologies and uses

creative devices such as collage, her own original poetry, revision, lists, images, and conversation to disengage academic thought and writing from colonial theories and archives that have passed as neutral. Eschewing conventional monograph formats, her work embraces a reciprocal and heterogeneous learning process with profound ethical implications.

Part of a movement of reimagining research and education through care, Quiet Methodologies is a powerful exploration of the possibilities of criticism during crises. It encourages readers to be visionary and pragmatic, challenging current conditions and offering alternative ideas for the future of the humanities.

Bost is professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. She is author of several books, including Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism

LITERARY CRITICISM/CULTURAL STUDIES

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Exploded Views

Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry

JONATHAN P. EBURNE

Idiosyncratic essays use their “exploded” forms to examine how inquiry functions

Insect galls, time, memory systems, orgone energy, and a bookstore that doesn’t yet exist. These disparate topics have persistently fascinated scholar Jonathan P. Eburne, yet each defied his previous efforts at classification through scholarly writing, resulting in five essays suspended in process. In Exploded Views, Eburne returns to these essays with the metaphorical tool of the exploded-view diagram, expanding them into entirely new, hybrid forms that unpack their inspirations and trace the wayward paths they followed.

An experiment into the nature of inquiry that spelunks, rather than shies from, the rabbit holes of scholarly curiosity, each essay gives way to sidelights and dilations to reveal the palimpsest of knowledge hiding beneath the surface of the academic form. A book about process—the process of turning ideas into things, and vice versa, as well as the particular

tendency for research, scholarly inquiry, and critical writing to come apart and go awry— Exploded Views is a refreshing exploration of how the tools of creative critical thinking work at their most basic level.

Reflecting on the methods of scholarly knowledge production and the contextual factors that shape new ideas, Eburne boldly replaces the seamlessness of the finished manuscript with the friction and even messiness of the incomplete, inviting readers to think in new and invigorating ways.

EXPLODED

VIEWS

Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry

Jonathan P. Eburne is professor of comparative literature, English, and French and Francophone studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is author of the award-winning Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas (Minnesota, 2018). He is also on the team launching a new nonprofit bookstore and culture space in central Pennsylvania, The Print Factory (www. printfactorybellefonte.org).

THEORY/LITERARY CRITICISM

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Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination

JUAN MENESES, EDITOR

Igniting political power through the lens of art and the imagination

Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful political action in today’s world. Gathering writings from an array of scholars, editor Juan Meneses asks: can an aesthetic theory of postpolitics help us understand and counteract the most insidious processes of depoliticization?

The contributors to this volume explore how the aesthetic imagination can play a crucial role in reenvisioning key political elements, including governance, agency, rights, and responsibility. With a survey of various artistic mediums—film, dance, music, literature, and digital media—the essays illustrate how the

aesthetic can reveal ways to breathe new life into the work of emancipatory politics. Reclaiming the arts and humanities as vital to political life, the contributors revisit but also move beyond the social sciences’ central focus on neoliberalism and public administration to address other topics such as tech-capitalism, race, environmental violence, and patriarchy.

Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination argues for a conscious deployment of aesthetics to resist political anesthesia and promote a more just society, underscoring the role of the imagination in political engagement and change.

Contributors: Jacquelyn Arcy, U of Wisconsin–Parkside; Christopher Breu, Illinois State U; Stephen Charbonneau, Florida Atlantic U; Eric Lemmon, Webster U; Robert P. Marzec, Purdue U; Allison Page, Rutgers U–Camden; Matthew Scully, U of Lausanne; Eric Swyngedouw, U of Manchester; Sherryl Vint, U of California, Riverside.

Juan Meneses, Editor P ost p olitics an d t h e A est h etic I magi n atio n

Juan Meneses is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is author of Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent (Minnesota, 2019).

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Everyday Ecofascism

Crisis and Consumption in American Literature

ALEXANDER MENRISKY

A timely look into how fascist ideas permeate contemporary culture well beyond the far right

As challenges posed by climate change have intensified in the twenty-first century, rightwing figures in the United States and abroad have increasingly framed anti-immigrant, anti-Indigenous, and white-supremacist sentiments in terms of environmental survival. Everyday Ecofascism explores the insidious nature of this tendency, revealing how permutations of these perspectives in fact resonate across the political spectrum. Drawing on comparative studies of fascism writ large, Alexander Menrisky demonstrates that ecofascism is best understood not as a uniquely right-wing ideology but as a political genre that reinforces white supremacy and other forms of domination.

Presenting a view of fascism as a complex power network that plays out on scales both large and small, Menrisky shows how extremist sentiments have crept into everyday language, stories, and ideas. Through a literary and cultural studies lens, he illuminates ecofascism’s narrative patterns and their easy

permeation of environmentalist discourses, from back-to-the-land movements to the resurgence of psychedelic drugs, food localism, and pandemic politics. Opposite his analysis of ecofascism in action, Menrisky sheds important light on narrative resistances to dominant conceptions of race, nation, and territory by Native, queer, and women-of-color writers who have countered ethnonationalism for generations.

Bridging past and present, Menrisky powerfully nails down the emergent concept of ecofascism and forms a basis for understanding phenomena like Covid19, ecological utopianism, and psychedelic environmentalism that detangles ecofascist tendencies from justice-oriented visions of place-based belonging.

Alexander Menrisky is assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He is author of Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology

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Capitalism Hates You

Marxism and the New Horror Film

JOSHUA GOOCH

What contemporary horror films teach us about the cruelties of capitalist society

Capitalism Hates You uses the horror film genre as a tool to diagnose and expose the hostile conditions of life under capitalism. Through incisive critical analyses of popular films such as Get Out, Drag Me to Hell, Hereditary, The Babadook, and many others, Joshua Gooch draws connections between Marxist theory and contemporary narratives of psychological unease.

Gooch highlights the work of women, trans, and nonwhite filmmakers to show how the remarkable diversity of twenty-first-century horror cinema can provide an expansive catalog of capitalism’s varying forms of oppression. Studying films that interrogate such urgent topics as gentrification, climate change, and reproductive labor, he demonstrates how contemporary horror films give affective shape to the negative undercurrents of our present socioeconomic system.

Capitalism Hates You argues that these films and their material conditions can deepen our understanding of essential concepts in contemporary Marxism, from the theory of value and changing forms of commodification to the labor of social reproduction, the abolition of the family, and the necessity of ecosocialism. Synthesizing various strands of Marxist thought, Gooch sheds light on the growing field of socially conscious horror films, examining how they pinpoint and exaggerate latent feelings of dread and discomfort to reflect the ills of society.

Joshua Gooch is professor of English at D’Youville University in Buffalo, New York. He is author of Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity and The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy

FILM STUDIES/THEORY

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The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film

TESSA LAIRD

A foray through the wilds where experimental films and animals collide

Like the flash of a tropical bird’s iridescent wing, cinema can be furtive and intensely beautiful—and it can leave a viewer craving more. Cinemal is Tessa Laird’s passionate inquiry into the ways that films mimic the majesty, mystery, and movements of animals, her field notes from countless hair-raising encounters with films in their natural habitat.

Part of a growing focus on nonhuman animals in film, Cinemal ventures to the “furry underbelly” of global experimental film practice, focusing on films from New Zealand, Australia, and South America. Laird examines how animals are depicted in film and analyzes the various animal qualities of cinema, like scratching and sniffing, vibrant colors, and voices (barking, howling, or echolocation). Burrowing into the work of filmmakers such as Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Sriwhana

Spong, and Ana Vaz, Laird’s energetic prose embodies the films she discusses, seamlessly combining personal anecdotes with art theory and philosophy to spread a wide sensory buffet.

Lively and optimistic, Laird uses cinematic animal tropes to encourage readers to rethink what it means to be a human. She argues that, in a time of ecological collapse, such an impulse is a necessary means of imagining other, healthier ways of being in this world. Connecting us with the more-thanhuman, Cinemal lures us toward the beastly becomings of film and, ultimately, our own animal natures.

cinemal

The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film

TESSA LAIRD

Tessa Laird is an artist, writer, and senior lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Her books include a fictocritical exploration of color, A Rainbow Reader, and a cultural history of bats, Bat, in Reaktion Books’s celebrated Animal series.

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Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film

BEENASH JAFRI

A cinematic study of Asian–Indigenous relationality

Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film is an interdisciplinary examination of the stubborn attachment of Asian diasporas to settler-colonial ideals and of the decolonial possibilities Asian diasporic films imagine. Beenash Jafri uniquely addresses the complexities of Asian–Indigenous relationality through film and visual media, urging film scholars to approach their subjects with an eye to the entanglements of race, diaspora, and Indigeneity.

Highlighting how Asian diasporic attachments to settler colonialism are structural, she explores how they are manifested through melancholic yearning within the figure of the Asian cowboy in films such as Cowgirl and Wild West and through the aesthetic and representational politics of body and land in experimental films by Shani Mootoo and Vivek Shraya. While recognizing the pervasive violence of settler colonialism, Jafri maintains

a hopeful outlook, showcasing how Asian diasporic filmmakers persistently work toward decolonial worldmaking. This emerging vision can be seen in the radical friendship between Ali Kazimi and Onondaga artist Jeffrey Thomas in Kazimi’s film Shooting Indians, in the queer relational survivance depicted in films such as This Place and Scarborough, and in the sensory disruptions of Jin-me Yoon’s interactive art project Untunnelling Vision

From film and media studies to diaspora studies and critical ethnic studies, Indigenous studies to queer theory, Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film provides a critical framework for engaging cinematic media to understand and imagine beyond the entrenched settler-colonial dynamics within Asian diasporic communities.

settler attachments & asian diasporic film

Beenash Jafri is assistant professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at UC Davis. Her writing has been published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies, and Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association

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Dreaming Down the Track

Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema

WILLIAM LEMPERT

AWAKENINGS IN ABORIGINAL CINEMA

What can Aboriginal filmmaking reveal about Indigenous presence and futures?

The product of years of embedded fieldwork within Indigenous film crews in Northwestern Australia, Dreaming Down the Track delves deeply into Aboriginal cinema as a transformative community process. It follows the social lives of projects throughout their production cycles, from planning and editing to screening, broadcasting, and after-images. Across its narrative sweep, this ethnography engages the film career of Kukatja elder Mark Moora to demonstrate the impact of filmmaking on how Aboriginal futures are collectively imagined and called forth.

William Lempert highlights a series of awakenings through which Moora ultimately came to view cinema as a process for catalyzing his family’s return to their home country of Mangkayi. This biographical media journey paints an intimate portrait of the inspiring possibilities and sobering limitations

of Indigenous envisioning within settler states. Lempert traces how Moora’s life and films convey a multiplicity of Aboriginal experiences across time and space, from colonial contact to contemporary life in communities like Balgo, including the continued governmental attempts to undermine them.

Amid ongoing negotiations to establish the first treaties between Indigenous nations and Australian states, Dreaming Down the Track illustrates what is at stake in how Aboriginal–State relations are represented and understood, both within communities and for the broader public. Lempert stays true to Moora’s insight that film can preserve community stories for generations to come, toward the aim of enacting sovereign futures.

William Lempert is assistant professor of anthropology at Bowdoin College. His writing has been published in several journals, including Cultural Anthropology and American Indian Culture and Research Journal

NATIVE STUDIES/FILM STUDIES

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Opposition by Imitation

The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism

CHRISTINA JERNE

Defying the mafia with everyday acts of resistance

For more than 150 years, Italy has been home to a resilient and evolving resistance against the pervasive influence of mafias. While these criminal organizations are renowned for their vast international business enterprises, the collective actions taken to oppose them are less known. In Opposition by Imitation, Christina Jerne explores anti-mafia activism, revealing how ordinary people resist, counter, and prevent criminal economies from proliferating.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among anti-mafia alliances in Campania, Sicily, and elsewhere, Jerne details a particular aspect of mafia activities: providing cash relief and other forms of patronage to individuals and groups. Her research shows how activism has evolved to imitate this sustaining role. Activists are increasingly challenging mafia control both by creating alternative economies—from producing food that interrupts mafia labor

practices to organizing tourism that supports anti-mafia hospitality—and by subversively adopting business tactics similar to the mafia’s to compete with their social influence and legitimacy. Exposing the political implications of this mimetic opposition, Jerne points to its potential impact on crime prevention and criminalization, both in Italy and globally.

Opposition by Imitation shows how these modern-day Robin Hoods are redefining collective action, taking what was controlled by the mafias and returning it to the collective. This contentious economic turn, against the backdrop of broader social movements, reveals significant political possibilities afforded by imitative opposition.

Christina Jerne is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is coeditor and translator of Against the Mafia: The Classic Italian Writings

GEOGRAPHY/SOCIOLOGY/POLITICAL SCIENCE

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Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds Series

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The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism

CHRISTINA JERNE

Furnishing Fascism

Modernist Design and Politics in Italy

IGNACIO G. GALÁN

The role of modernist interior design in the construction of Italian nationalism

Along with the rise of Mussolini’s fascist regime, the interwar years in Italy also saw the widespread development of its modernist interior design and furnishing practices. While the regime’s politics were overtly manifest in monumental government architecture, Furnishing Fascism examines the subtler yet effective role of household goods and decor in the cultivation of Italy’s exclusionary sense of national identity.

Presenting a fresh look at the work of various architects and designers, including iconic figures such as Gio Ponti and Carlo Enrico Rava, Ignacio G. Galán explores how seemingly neutral products of everyday life contributed to the propagation of fascist ideology. Through extensive promotion in popular magazines and department stores,

on the film sets of Cinecittà Studios, and throughout the country’s colonial territories, Italy’s modernist design practices were part of a larger political project that aimed to produce a totalizing image of cultural hegemony.

Interweaving design theory, architectural history, and media scholarship, Furnishing Fascism reexamines the period’s so-called minor arts to reveal the political entanglement of modernism in early twentieth-century Italy and offers valuable insight into the complications of cultural production under the auspices of authoritarian power.

FURNISHING FASCISM

MODERNIST DESIGN AND POLITICS IN ITALY

ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY/DESIGN

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IGNACIO G. GALÁN

Ignacio G. Galán is assistant professor of architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University.

The Seduction of Space

Cruising French Cinema

JULES O’DWYER

A bold and far-reaching new study of French queer cinema reimagines the relationship between sexuality and space

Spatiality has long been a crucial and potent lens for understanding French culture and aesthetics. While canonical greats of French cinema such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Louis Malle invoked the notion of flânerie to explore ideas of modernism, spatial exploration, and urban sociality, Jules O’Dwyer demonstrates how a more recent generation of French queer filmmakers continues to engage with—and contest—this legacy by focusing attention on the cognate practice of cruising.

Through the work of Jacques Nolot, Sébastien Lifshitz, Christophe Honoré, Vincent Dieutre, Alain Guiraudie, and others, The Seduction of Space draws film theory, queer studies, and spatial inquiry into close proximity to examine the politics of cruising and the gendering of space. Making the case that cinema not only documents the queer spaces of the past but

continues to produce them, O’Dwyer maps the relationships between sex and spatiality as he takes up such varied topics as public sex in the porn theater, racial eroticization in the banlieue, and the ecocritical valences of rural cruising.

Foregrounding the crucial role that spatiality plays in shaping the parameters of France’s visual cultures and political imaginary, The Seduction of Space is both an urgent queer reconceptualization of this tradition and a clarion call for film scholars to tarry with the politics of sexuality in all its messiness.

THE SEDUCTION OF SPACE CRUISING FRENCH CINEMA

Jules O’Dwyer

Jules O’Dwyer is a research fellow in film and French studies at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. He is author of Hotels, and his writing has been published in Screen, Discourse, and Studies in French Cinema. He is coeditor of the journal world picture

FILM STUDIES/QUEER THEORY

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Hermes II

Interference

MICHEL SERRES

TRANSLATED BY RANDOLPH BURKS

Unveiling the hidden connections in the network of knowledge

Hermes II: Interference is the second in a series of works by philosopher Michel Serres using Hermes, god of communication, as an archetypal symbolic figure for reflecting on philosophy and the arts and sciences. Serres delves into the concept of interreferentiality, proposing that every node—whether it be knowledge, objects, or people—exists within a network where it both receives and transmits information. He argues against the existence of a dominant center or pole within these networks, emphasizing that each node can temporarily serve as a focal point depending on context.

Serres presents unique insights into topics such as the nature of knowledge, the world of objects, intersubjectivity, the origins of geometry, the interplay of music and background noise, and empiricism. By identifying parallel structures across these areas, Serres unifies them into a comprehensive theoretical framework, revealing hidden connections and potential

future influences. Additionally, this work includes a critique of Gaston Bachelard’s The Formation of the Scientific Mind and concludes with an analysis of communication in Hergé’s The Castafiore Emerald

Hermes II is a unique blend of ancient and modern perspectives, combining rigorous analysis with an optimistic outlook and highlighting the interconnectedness of knowledge and its implications for fostering peaceful relations within the network of life.

Michel Serres

Interference HERMES

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Michel Serres (1930–2019) was author of more than sixty books, including Biogea, Variations on the Body, and The Parasite (all available in translation from Minnesota). He was widely known for his poetic prose and interdisciplinary form of thought.

Randolph Burks is an independent scholar who has translated several works by Michel Serres, including Variations on the Body and Biogea as well as The Incandescent, Hominescence, and Branches

PHILOSOPHY/THEORY

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Posthumanities Series, volume 73

The Racial Cage

NADINE EHLERS, ANTHONY RYAN HATCH, AMADE AOUATEF M’CHAREK, AND ANNE POLLOCK

Coralations

MELODY JUE

The potential of biohumanities as a foundation for antiracist critique of the human

The Racial Cage delivers a spirited and polyvocal analysis of how race is materialized through both metaphorical and literal cages. It theorizes the cage, fence, dragnet, and tube as material–semiotic sites for racialization and for iteratively redefining the human–animal boundary. 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.

Nadine Ehlers is associate professor of sociology at the University of Sydney.

Anthony Ryan Hatch is professor of science and technology studies at Wesleyan University.

Amade Aouatef M’charek is professor of anthropology of science at the University of Amsterdam.

Anne Pollock is professor of global health and social medicine at King’s College London.

CRITICAL RACE THEORY

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A captivating meditation on coral beyond iconic tropical corals

Coralations is a philosophical exploration of the media that come into focus when we shift our attention from the highly recognizable coral of the tropics. Focusing on soft corals and deep-water corals leads to different narratives about climate change and involves different analogies to media. 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.

Melody Jue is associate professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater and coeditor of Saturation: An Elemental Politics with Rafico Ruiz.

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FEBRUARY

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Proposals for a Caring Economy

MATTHEW J. WOLF-MEYER, EDITOR

Ungendering Menstruation

ELA PRZYBYŁO

Offers much-needed care models beyond capitalist constraints

For too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justifications. This has led to the deprivation of care to individuals and communities based on capitalist assumptions about what and who can be cared for. Proposals for a Caring Economy takes these assumptions to task. 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.

Proposals for a Caring Economy articulates an economy that situates care at the forefront; sees the preservation of individual, community, and environmental wellbeing as the primary good; and focuses attention on building a sustainable economy of caring that will radically transform social connections and possibilities.

Contributors: Chelsey R. Carter, Yale U; David McDermott Hughes, Rutgers U; Stephanie Delise Jones, U of California, Riverside; Sameena Mulla, Emory U; Katy Overstreet, Saxo Institute, U of Copenhagen; Michelle Parsons, Northern Arizona U; Adair Rounthwaite, U of Washington; Damien M. Sojoyner, U of California, Irvine; Emily YatesDoerr, Oregon State U.

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer is author of several books and professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

ANTHROPOLOGY

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Why and how menstrual pain needs to be incorporated into discussions of gender, embodiment, and disability

Honing a “cranky” approach to being a menstruating body expected to accept and embrace trauma, Ungendering Menstruation examines menstrual suppression, toxicity, and the cooptation of menstrual positivity rhetoric. Drawing on their own experiences as a toxic shock survivor and a menstrual pain and period dysphoria sufferer, Ela Przybyło questions why, on what terms, and for whom menstruation has been fixed around experiences of pain. Instead, they present a vision for menstrual justice that refuses the womaning of bleeding and the further erasure, dismissal, and denial of menstrual pain as real pain.

If menstruating is framed as somatechnically elective, Przybyło contends, it provides avenues for both celebrating and appreciating cultures of bleeding as well as for remaining critical of the ways in which bleeding has been used as a transphobic and sexist tool to fix gender in place.

Ela Przybyło is associate professor of English and core faculty in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Illinois State University. She is author of Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality and coeditor of On the Politics of Ugliness

GENDER AND SEXUALITY/DISABILITY STUDIES

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Humanities in the Time of AI

LAURENT DUBREUIL

Why AI offers a chance for the humanities to strengthen their relevance

and significance

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. However, Laurent Dubreuil argues, such tasks do not, in any way, constitute the humanities. On the contrary, he posits, a maximalist take on scholarship would not focus on generation but on creation, as a subject and as an object. Dubreuil seizes the opportunity of what AI reveals about the meaning of humanistic inquiry to offer a path for the renewal of the humanities on transhistorical, transcultural, and transdisciplinary grounds.

Laurent Dubreuil is professor of comparative literature, Romance studies, and cognitive science at Cornell University, where he founded the Humanities Lab. He is author of many books, including The Intellective Space: Thinking beyond Cognition and, with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Dialogues on the Human Ape, both published by the University of Minnesota Press.

PHILOSOPHY/DIGITAL CULTURE

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Announcing a New Journal

Markers

Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies

ELISABETH L. ROARK, EDITOR

The only American journal to focus on cemeteries and gravemarkers and their significance for the human experience throughout history

Markers is the leading scholarly journal dedicated to the study of gravestones, monuments, tombs, and cemeteries. Supported by a distinguished editorial board of experts in cemetery studies, Markers covers diverse regions around the globe, from the ancient world to our contemporary moment. Broadly interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, the journal presents rigorous analysis and interpretation, delving into areas such as ritual and belief, economics and technology, genealogy and conservation, and especially highlighting the tangible objects—the cemeteries and gravestones—that are its central focus.

Markers has covered topics ranging from the distinctive gravemarkers used by African Americans in Virginia to the opulent mausoleums of Gilded Age America and wooden gravemarkers in New Zealand. Encompassing anthropology, art and architectural history, and ethnic studies as well as material culture studies, folklore, popular culture studies, and linguistics, the journal appeals to scholars and general readers. Since its inception in the late 1970s, it has embraced new theoretical approaches, including contemporary queer theory and new materialism, while also maintaining its longstanding concern with foundational areas of the field, such as the identification, documentation, preservation, and conservation of gravestones in their cemetery landscapes, as well as symbology, typology, and carver studies.

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Elisabeth L. Roark coordinates the programs in art history and museum studies at Chatham University.

Buildings & Landscapes

Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum

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Future Anterior

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Critical Ethnic Studies

NEEL AHUJA, IYKO DAY, AND RANA JALEEL, EDITORS

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International Journal of Surrealism

KATHARINE CONLEY AND ALYCE MAHON, EDITORS

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Cultural Critique

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Prices marked “xx” are super short discount

Prices unmarked are trade discount

SALES RIGHTS CODES

ANZ Not for sale in Australia and New Zealand

CAN Not for sale in Canada

COBE Not for sale in the British Commonwealth except Canada

RETURN POLICY

Address for returns: Returns Department

University of Minnesota Press c/o Chicago Distribution Center 11030 S. Langley Ave. Chicago, IL 60628

DEFECTIVE COPIES

Accepted at any time for replacement.

CLAIMS FOR DAMAGED OR SHORT SHIPMENTS

Claims must be made within 30 days of invoice date. Indicate whether you wish replacement copies or cancellation of order.

OVERSTOCK RETURNS

Invoice number, date, and packing list with ISBN must accompany shipment. Returned copies must be clean and in saleable condition (no pricing residue, bent corners, or shelf-worn covers will be accepted). The distribution center retains the right of final decision determining the saleability of returned books. Returns deemed unsaleable will be returned to the bookseller at the bookseller’s expense.

CUSA For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada

EU Not for sale in Europe

IND Not for sale in India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

NAM For sale only in North America

NSA For sale only in North and South America

OBE World rights except for the British Commonwealth

UK & IRE Not for sale in the UK and Ireland

USA For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, and the Philippines

X World rights except for the European Continent

RIGHTS INQUIRIES

Jeff Moen

Rights and Contracts

Phone: (612) 301-1995

E-mail: moenx017@umn.edu

The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.

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SPRING/SUMMER 2025