Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
From the University of Minnesota Press
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
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