Collections
- Communication Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton and Mercedes Bunz 2019 Spring
- On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms
- Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring
- A media theory of markets
- Unapologetic Beauty Joanna Frueh 2019 Spring
- A startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beauty
- Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma Larry Millett 2019 Spring
- A murderer who eluded him in Munich draws an aging Sherlock Holmes into a monstrous mystery in small-town Minnesota in 1920
- The ABC of It Why Children’s Books Matter Leonard S. Marcus 2019 Spring
- Original artwork and materials explore children’s literature and its impact in society and culture over time Distributed for the University of Minnesota Libraries, Kerlan Collection
- Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring
- On the social consequences of machines
- Information Fantasies Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China Xiao Liu 2019 Spring
- A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses
- Anthropocene Poetics Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction David Farrier 2019 Spring
- How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time
- Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring
- An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé
- The Fourth World An Indian Reality George Manuel and Michael Posluns 2018 Fall
- A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print
- No Horizon Is So Far Two Women and Their Historic Journey across Antarctica Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft 2019 Spring
- The extraordinary story of the first two women to cross Antarctica
- The Platform Economy How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet Marc Steinberg 2019 Spring
- Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it
- Bad Film Histories Ethnography and the Early Archive Katherine Groo 2019 Spring
- A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives
- The Technique of Thought Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism Ian James 2019 Spring
- Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality
- The Rent of Form Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age Pedro Fiori Arantes 2018 Fall
- A critique of prominent architects’ approach to digitally driven design and labor practices over the past two decades
- Reading for Reform The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era Laura R. Fisher 2019 Spring
- An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century
- Whatever Normal Is Jane St. Anthony 2019 Spring
- In the fourth volume of a series set in Minneapolis in the 1960s, three friends navigate relationships and new questions about love and identity
- Cyberwar and Revolution Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko 2019 Spring
- Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet
- The Devil’s Wedding Ring Vidar Sundstøl 2019 Spring
- A mysterious disappearance at a 13th-century church in his native Norway draws detective Max Fjellanger into an old case—and a world of ancient ritual, superstition, and present-day danger
- Dead Labor Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death James Tyner 2019 Spring
- A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
- Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring
- An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe
- The Politics of Annihilation A Genealogy of Genocide Benjamin Meiches 2019 Spring
- How did a powerful concept in international justice evolve into an inequitable response to mass suffering?
- Men in Place Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America Miriam J. Abelson 2019 Spring
- Daring new theories of masculinity, built from a large and geographically diverse interview study of transgender men
- A Contest without Winners How Students Experience Competitive School Choice Kate Phillippo 2019 Spring
- Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students’ eyes
- Fighting for NOW Diversity and Discord in the National Organization for Women Kelsy Kretschmer 2019 Spring
- An unparalleled exploration of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the present—and its future
- Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field Notes from the Field Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir, Editors 2019 Spring
- An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South
- Learning versus the Common Core Nicholas Tampio 2019 Spring
- An open challenge to Common Core’s drive for uniformity
- Reimagining Livelihoods Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment Ethan Miller 2019 Spring
- A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable development
- Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring
- From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life
- Edges of the State John Protevi 2019 Fall
- Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature
- Living on Campus An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Carla Yanni 2019 Spring
- The Lost Forest Phyllis Root 2019 Spring
- The story of a forest “lost” by a surveying error—and all the flora and fauna to be found there
- Design, Nature, and Revolution Toward a Critical Ecology Tomás Maldonado 2019 Spring
- Producers, Parasites, Patriots Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes 2019 Spring
- The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump
- Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
- The Clue in the Trees An Enchantment Lake Mystery Margi Preus 2019 Spring
- Francie returns to Enchantment Lake looking for answers, only to get dragged into a murder mystery she might not survive
- Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring
- Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures
- The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Zachary J. Violette 2019 Spring
- A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
- Sweet Nature A Cook's Guide to Using Honey and Maple Syrup Beth Dooley and Mette Nielsen 2019 Spring
- A beautiful, delicious celebration of two natural sweeteners in irresistible recipes
- Silent Cells The Secret Drugging of Captive America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2019 Spring
- A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systems
- Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring
- The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
- Gunflint Burning Fire in the Boundary Waters Cary J. Griffith 2019 Spring
- The story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters’ battle, the human toll
- Clearing Out A Novel Helene Uri 2019 Spring
- In a masterful blend of fiction and autobiography, a Norwegian novelist sends her character to the far north to learn what she can about their Sami ancestry
- Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Arne De Boever 2019 Fall
- Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics
- Translated Nation Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Christopher Pexa 2019 Spring
- How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state
- The Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant Édouard Glissant Jeff Humphries, Editor 2019 Spring
- The complete poems of the finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature—now in paper
- Break Up the Anthropocene Steve Mentz 2019 Fall
- Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch
- Glissant and the Middle Passage Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss John E. Drabinski 2019 Spring
- A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness
- Anti-Electra The Radical Totem of the Girl Elisabeth von Samsonow 2019 Spring
- A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex”
- Architectures of the Unforeseen Essays in the Occurrent Arts Brian Massumi 2019 Spring
- A beautifully written study of three pioneering artists, entwining their work and our understanding of creativity