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

• 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

• Gregg Lambert

  The World Is Gone: Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic

(Continued on page 96)