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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