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
Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now
Anna Watkins Fisher
Safety Orange
Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson
Young-Girls in Echoland: #Theorizing Tiqqun
Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods
Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk
Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher
The Global Shelter Imaginary: IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief
Catherine Liu
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Christopher Schaberg
Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic
Marquis Bey
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender
Cristina Beltrán
Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy
Hil Malatino
Trans Care
Sarah Juliet Lauro
Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance
Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill, and Barbara Gurr
Furious Feminisms: Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road
Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone
Wageless Life: A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism
Claudia Milian
LatinX
Aaron Jaffe
Spoiler Alert: A Critical Guide
Don Ihde
Medical Technics
Jonathan Beecher Field
Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation
Jennifer Gabrys
How to Do Things with Sensors
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now
Arne De Boever
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism
Steve Mentz
Break Up the Anthropocene
John Protevi
Edges of the State
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology
Nicholas Tampio
Learning versus the Common Core
Kathryn Yusoff
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Kenneth J. Saltman
The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance
Ginger Nolan
The Neocolonialism of the Global Village
Joanna Zylinska
The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse
Robert Rosenberger
Callous Objects: Designs against the Homeless
William E. Connolly
Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism
Chuck Rybak
UW Struggle: When a State Attacks Its University
Clare Birchall
Shareveillance: The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data
la paperson
A Third University Is Possible
Kelly Oliver
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention
P. David Marshall
The Celebrity Persona Pandemic
Davide Panagia
Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics
David Golumbia
The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism
Sohail Daulatzai
Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue
Gary Hall
The Uberfication of the University
Mark Jarzombek
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age
N. Adriana Knouf
How Noise Matters to Finance
Andrew Culp
Dark Deleuze
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift
Sharon Sliwinski
Mandela’s Dark Years: A Political Theory of Dreaming
Grant Farred
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life
Ian Bogost
The Geek’s Chihuahua: Living with Apple
Shannon Mattern
Deep Mapping the Media City
Steven Shaviro
No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism
Jussi Parikka
The Anthrobscene
Reinhold Martin
Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
John Hartigan Jr.
Aesop’s Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach