Forerunners: Ideas First

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.

64 projects. Showing results 1 through 20.

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Futures of the Sun

The Struggle over Renewable Life

Imre Szeman
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Speculative Whiteness

Science Fiction and the Alt-Right

Jordan S. Carroll
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I Know You Are, but What Am I?

On Pee-wee Herman

Cait McKinney
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The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood

Shenila Khoja-Moolji
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llness Politics and Hashtag Activism

Lisa Diedrich
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On the Appearance of the World

A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture

Mark Foster Gage
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Everything Is Police

Tia Trafford

Livestreaming

An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter

EL Putnam

No More Fossils

Dominic Boyer

Opening Ceremony

Inviting Inclusion into University Governance

Kathryn J. Gindlesparger

Gramsci at Sea

Sharad Chari

Crip Negativity

J. Logan Smilges

Health Colonialism

Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers

Shiloh Krupar

All through the Town

The School Bus as Educational Technology

Antero Garcia

Rescue Me

On Dogs and Their Humans

Margret Grebowicz

Endlings

Fables for the Anthropocene

Lydia Pyne

The School—Prison Trust

Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Jeremiah Chin

Solarities

Seeking Energy Justice

After Oil Collective

The Owls Are Not What They Seem

Artist as Ethologist

Arnaud Gerspacher

Studious Drift

Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education

Tyson E. Lewis, Peter B. Hyland