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
Hsuan L. Hsu
Olfactory Worldmaking
Erica Rand
Skating Away from the Binary
Grant Farred
The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism
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
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