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

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