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.
The Geek’s Chihuahua: Living with Apple
Andrew Culp
Dark Deleuze
Grant Farred
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life
Gary Hall
The Uberfication of the University
John Hartigan
Aesop’s Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach
Mark Jarzombek
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age
Nicholas A. Knouf
How Noise Matters to Finance
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift
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
Sharon Sliwinski
Mandela’s Dark Years: A Political Theory of Dreaming