Forerunners: Ideas First from the University of Minnesota Press

Original e-works to spark new scholarship

Forerunners 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.

Ian Bogost, The Geek’s Chihuahua: Living with Apple

John Hartigan Jr., Aesop’s Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach

Reinhold Martin, Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City

Shannon Mattern, Deep Mapping the Media City

Jussi Parikka, The Anthrobscene

Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism