American Studies: Philosophy and Theory
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the American Studies Association conference. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MN89710. Code expires December 7, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
CREATIVITY AND REVOLT // SOCIAL JUSTICE // PUBLIC POLICY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
HISTORY // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // RACE // NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ENVIRONMENT // ANIMALS
ETHNOGRAPHY // LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM
MEDIA AND ART // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DISABILITY STUDIES
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Making Sense in Common A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse Isabelle Stengers 2023 Spring
- A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy
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Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Rachel Cypher, Editors 2022 Fall
- A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
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The Long 2020 Richard Grusin and Maureen Ryan, Editors 2022 Fall
- Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing
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The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
- A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
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Angry Planet Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World Anne Stewart 2022 Fall
- Before the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet
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Lesbian Death Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer Mairead Sullivan 2022 Fall
- Engaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity
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Statelessness On Almost Not Existing 2022 Fall
- A pathbreaking new genealogy of statelessness
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Endless Intervals Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 Jeffrey West Kirkwood 2022 Fall
- Revealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the human
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Queer Silence On Disability and Rhetorical Absence J. Logan Smilges 2022 Fall
- Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queerness
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Against the Commons A Radical History of Urban Planning Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago 2022 Fall
- An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons
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Fearing the Immigrant Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto Parastou Saberi 2022 Fall
- A fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy—and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it
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Endlings Fables for the Anthropocene Lydia Pyne 2023 Spring
- Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss
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Rescue Me On Dogs and Their Humans Margret Grebowicz 2023 Spring
- What exactly is it we want from dogs today?
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On Posthuman War Computation and Military Violence Mike Hill 2022 Spring
- Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself
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Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring
- How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles
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The Life Worth Living Disability, Pain, and Morality Joel Michael Reynolds 2022 Spring
- A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain
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The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring
- A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
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Global Debates in the Digital Humanities Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paola Ricaurte, Editors 2022 Spring
- A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities
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Nothing Has to Make Sense Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism Sherene H. Razack 2022 Spring
- How Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world
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Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology Mick Smith and Jason Young 2022 Fall
- Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency
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Cinema Illuminating Reality Media Philosophy through Buddhism Victor Fan 2022 Spring
- A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse
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A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal Andrew Culp 2022 Spring
- A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it
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Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring
- How media shapes our actions and feelings about race
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Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
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Technics Improvised Activating Touch in Global Media Art Timothy Murray 2022 Spring
- Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futures
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Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall
- Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor
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Disorderly Families Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault 2021 Fall
- The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille
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Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now 2022 Spring
- A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world
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Language, Madness, and Desire On Literature Michel Foucault 2021 Fall
- Insight into the importance of literature for Michel Foucault—published in English for the first time
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Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower, Editors 2021 Fall
- How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm
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An Essay for Ezra Racial Terror in America Grant Farred 2021 Fall
- An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious
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Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall
- How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be
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Talkin’ Up to the White Woman Indigenous Women and Feminism Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2021 Fall
- A twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface
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Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall
- Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i
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Visibility Interrupted Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming Carly Thomsen 2021 Fall
- A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest
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Why We Lost the Sex Wars Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era Lorna N. Bracewell 2021 Spring
- Reexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s—the rivalries and the remarkable alliances
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Black Queer Flesh Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel Alvin J. Henry 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity
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Remote Warfare New Cultures of Violence Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors 2020 Fall
- Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare
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Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall
- A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
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Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Jonathan Beecher Field 2019 Fall
- Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring
- The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
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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
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Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall
- A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
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Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall
- Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
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Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall
- An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
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Outsider Theory Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas Jonathan P. Eburne 2018 Fall
- A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies
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99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto Brian Massumi 2018 Fall
- A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms
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After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
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The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring
- Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
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Governance Feminism: An Introduction An Introduction Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir 2018 Spring
- Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
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Playing with Feelings Video Games and Affect 2018 Spring
- How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code
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Making Things and Drawing Boundaries Experiments in the Digital Humanities Jentery Sayers, Editor 2017 Fall
- A major new look at why art, digitization, and design are vital to “making” in the humanities
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Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring
- Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
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Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall
- A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
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Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall
- Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
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Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall
- An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
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Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring
- A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture
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Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring
- A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory
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Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring
- Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
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Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall
- Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
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The Child to Come Life after the Human Catastrophe Rebekah Sheldon 2016 Fall
- A bold new reading of the child for the twenty-first century, with implications for contemporary environmentalism
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Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall
- A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out
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The Uberfication of the University Gary Hall 2016 Fall
- The contemporary university’s implications for the future organization of labor
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How Noise Matters to Finance N. Adriana Knouf 2016 Spring
- The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise
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Claiming Place On the Agency of Hmong Women Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs and Ma Vang, Editors 2016 Spring
- A field-defining book that illustrates how Hmong scholarship might progress
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Death beyond Disavowal The Impossible Politics of Difference Grace Kyungwon Hong 2015 Fall
- Women of color feminism should have a voice in all discussions of contemporary neoliberalism
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The White Possessive Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2015 Spring
- How whiteness operationalizes race to colonize and displace Indigenous sovereignty
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The Capacity Contract Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship Stacy Clifford Simplican 2015 Spring
- An unprecedented look at democratic theory’s disability exclusion and today’s self-advocacy movement
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Physics of Blackness Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology Michelle M. Wright 2015 Spring
- Reveals how assumptions we make about time and space inhibit more inclusive definitions of Blackness
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The Nonhuman Turn Richard Grusin, Editor 2015 Spring
- A groundbreaking work introducing a new series in twenty-first-century studies
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Native American DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear 2013 Fall
- How identifying Native Americans is vastly more complicated than matching DNA
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The Reorder of Things The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference Roderick A. Ferguson 2012 Fall
- A critical account of how academia and global capital appropriated the revolutionary fervor of the 1960s and 1970s
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The Transit of Empire Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism Jodi A. Byrd 2011 Fall
- Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire
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The Amalgamation Waltz Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory Tavia Nyong’o 2009 Spring
- Does racial hybridity offer a future beyond racial difference?
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Aberrations in Black Toward a Queer of Color Critique Roderick A. Ferguson 2003 Fall
- A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture