Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
From the University of Minnesota Press
- Michael Rubenstein - Pipeline Noir: Seeing Oil through Chinatown 
- Andrea Righi - Three Economies of Transcendence 
- Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Amade Aouatef M’charek, and Anne Pollock - The Racial Cage 
- Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Editor - Proposals for a Caring Economy 
- Ela Przybyło - Ungendering Menstruation 
- Laurent Dubreuil - Humanities in the Time of AI 
- Melody Jue - Coralations 
- Imre Szeman - Futures of the Sun: The Struggle over Renewable Life 
- Chris Washington - Nonbinary Jane Austen 
- Jordan S. Carroll - Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right 
- Shenila Khoja-Moolji - The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood 
- Cait McKinney - I Know You Are, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman 
- Lisa Diedrich - Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism 
- Mark Foster Gage - On the Appearance of the World: A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture 
- Tia Trafford - Everything Is Police 
- EL Putnam - Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter 
- Dominic Boyer - No More Fossils 
- Sharad Chari - Gramsci at Sea 
- Kathryn J. Gindlesparger - Opening Ceremony: Inviting Inclusion into University Governance 
- J. Logan Smilges - Crip Negativity 
- Shiloh Krupar - Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers 
- Antero Garcia - All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology 
- Lydia Pyne - Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene 
- Margret Grebowicz - Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans 
- Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, and Jeremiah Chin - The School–Prison Trust 
- After Oil Collective; Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors - Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice 
- Arnaud Gerspacher - The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Artist as Ethologist 
- Tyson E. Lewis and Peter B. Hyland - Studious Drift: Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education 
- Mick Smith and Jason Young - Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology 
- Caterina Albano - Out of Breath: Vulnerability of Air in Contemporary Art 
- Gregg Lambert - The World Is Gone: Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic 
- Grant Farred - Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now 
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