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

1. Laurent Dubreuil

   Humanities in the Time of AI

2. Melody Jue

   Coralations

3. Chris Washington

   Nonbinary Jane Austen

4. Imre Szeman

   Futures of the Sun: The Struggle over Renewable Life

5. Jordan S. Carroll

   Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right

6. Shenila Khoja-Moolji

   The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood

7. Cait McKinney

   I Know You Are, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman

8. Lisa Diedrich

   Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism

9. Mark Foster Gage

   On the Appearance of the World: A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture

10. Tia Trafford

    Everything Is Police

11. EL Putnam

    Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter

12. Dominic Boyer

    No More Fossils

13. Sharad Chari

    Gramsci at Sea

14. Kathryn J. Gindlesparger

    Opening Ceremony: Inviting Inclusion into University Governance

15. J. Logan Smilges

    Crip Negativity

16. Shiloh Krupar

    Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers

17. Antero Garcia

    All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology

18. Lydia Pyne

    Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene

19. Margret Grebowicz

    Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans

20. Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, and Jeremiah Chin

    The School–Prison Trust

21. After Oil Collective; Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors

    Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice

22. Arnaud Gerspacher

    The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Artist as Ethologist

23. Tyson E. Lewis and Peter B. Hyland

    Studious Drift: Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education

24. Mick Smith and Jason Young

    Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology

25. Caterina Albano

    Out of Breath: Vulnerability of Air in Contemporary Art

26. Gregg Lambert

    The World Is Gone: Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic

27. Grant Farred

    Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now

28. Anna Watkins Fisher

    Safety Orange

29. Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson

    Young-Girls in Echoland: #Theorizing Tiqqun

30. Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods

    Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk

31. Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher

    The Global Shelter Imaginary: IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief

32. Catherine Liu

    Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

33. Christopher Schaberg

    Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic

34. Marquis Bey

    The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender

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