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

Catherine Liu

Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

Christopher Schaberg

Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic

Marquis Bey

The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender

Cristina Beltrán

Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy

Hil Malatino

Trans Care

Sarah Juliet Lauro

Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance

Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill, and Barbara Gurr

Furious Feminisms: Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road

Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone

Wageless Life: A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism

Claudia Milian

LatinX

Aaron Jaffe

Spoiler Alert: A Critical Guide

Don Ihde

Medical Technics

Jonathan Beecher Field

Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation

Jennifer Gabrys

How to Do Things with Sensors

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