Forerunners: Ideas First from the University of Minnesota Press
Original e-works to spark new scholarship
FORERUNNERS: IDEAS FIRST is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
Clare Birchall
Shareveillance: The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data
Ian Bogost
The Geek’s Chihuahua: Living with Apple
William E. Connolly
Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism
Andrew Culp
Dark Deleuze
Sohail Daulatzai
Fifty Years of “The Battle of Algiers”: Past as Prologue
Grant Farred
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life
David Golumbia
The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism
Gary Hall
The Uberfication of the University
John Hartigan Jr.
Aesop’s Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age
Nicholas A. Knouf
How Noise Matters to Finance
la paperson
A Third University Is Possible
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift
P. David Marshall
The Celebrity Persona Pandemic
Reinhold Martin
Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
Shannon Mattern
Deep Mapping the Media City
Kelly Oliver
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention
Davide Panagia
Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics
Jussi Parikka
The Anthrobscene
Robert Rosenberger
Callous Objects: Designs against the Homeless
Chuck Rybak
UW Struggle: When a State Attacks Its University
Steven Shaviro
No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism
Sharon Sliwinski
Mandela’s Dark Years: A Political Theory of Dreaming
Joanna Zylinska
The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse