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Featured Titles
A small collection of new and recently updated titles we'd like to call your attention. Click here to see our entire library of open titles.
Cut/Copy/Paste
Whitney Trettien
Beyond the Meme
Alan C. Love, William C. Wimsatt
Uproarious
Cynthia Willett, Julie Willett
Burgers in Blackface
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Designs on the Public
Kristine F. MillerGoing the Rounds
Ryan Cordell, David A. Smith, Abby Mullen, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
On the Revaluation of Value
Brian Massumi
Anti-Book
Nicholas Thoburn
Projects in Progress
Follow these nascent projects from the University of Minnesota Press as they evolve in parallel with their author's research and writing. As you engage with these projects here and on Twitter, you help provide shape and scope to the final versions of record.
Electronic Mediations
Electronically mediated communication has established lasting and significant changes in society and culture, politics and economics, thinking and being. From the development, adoption, and now international ubiquity of the Internet to virtual reality technologies, the mainstream popularity of video games, the genre of literary hypertexts, and a proliferation of digital art and other new media art forms, technology has infused everyday life and all aspects of our interaction, communication, and expression. The books in this series explore the humanistic and social implications of these new technologies.
Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
This influential series devoted to the philosophy of science brings together essays by leading scholars on themes and topics that are crucial to the history, academic development, and current debates in this field.
Forerunners: Ideas First
Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange.
Spoiler Alert
Aaron Jaffe
Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation
Jonathan Beecher Field
How to Do Things with Sensors
Jennifer GabrysBurgers in Blackface
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism
Arne De Boever
Break Up the Anthropocene
Steve Mentz
Edges of the State
John Protevi
Theory for the World to Come
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer