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Star Wars after Lucas A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy Dan Golding 2023 Spring
- Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars
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Inside the Spiral The Passions of Robert Smithson Suzaan Boettger 2022 Fall
- An expansive and revelatory study of Robert Smithson’s life and the hidden influences on his iconic creations
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Settling the Boom The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun, Editors 2022 Fall
- Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom
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The New Real Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji Jonathan E. Abel 2022 Fall
- Unlocking a vital understanding of how literary studies and media studies overlap and are bound together
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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself Racial Myths and Our American Narratives David Mura 2022 Fall
- Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression
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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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A Theory of Assembly From Museums to Memes Kyle Parry 2022 Fall
- A vital reckoning with how we understand the basic categories of cultural expression in the digital era
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African Meditations Felwine Sarr 2022 Fall
- An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on his native Senegal after years of study abroad
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The Unteachables Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education Keith A. Mayes 2022 Fall
- How special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schools
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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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Imagination and Invention Gilbert Simondon 2022 Fall
- A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images
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Dancing Indigenous Worlds Choreographies of Relation Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2022 Fall
- The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples
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Italian Political Cinema Figures of the Long ’68 Mauro Resmini 2022 Fall
- An exploration of how film has made legible the Italian long ’68 as a moment of crisis and transition
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Not the Camilla We Knew One Woman’s Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army Rachael Hanel 2022 Fall
- The mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States
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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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Making Love with the Land Essays Joshua Whitehead 2022 Fall
- A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world
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Arte Programmata Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy Lindsay Caplan 2022 Fall
- Tracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde’s pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control
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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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Opioid Reckoning Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State Amy C. Sullivan 2022 Fall
- Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic
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Iron Curtain Journals January–May 1965 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals
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South American Journals January–July 1960 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America
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The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s—the essential backstory to Ginsberg’s National Book Award–winning volume of poetry
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Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang Nicholas de Villiers 2022 Fall
- A brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwan’s greatest auteurs
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The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring
- Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police
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Architecture of Life Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Alla Vronskaya 2022 Spring
- Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences
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A Voice but No Power Organizing for Social Justice in Minneapolis David Forrest 2022 Fall
- Examining the work of social justice groups in Minneapolis following the 2008 recession
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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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Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth The Gothic Anthropocene Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund, Editors 2022 Spring
- An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era
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Tsuchi Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art Bert Winther-Tamaki 2022 Spring
- An examination of Japanese contemporary art through the lens of ecocriticism and environmental history
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Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2022 Spring
- The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism
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Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring
- How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
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Justice at Work The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 2022 Spring
- A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities
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Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring
- A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
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The Owls Are Not What They Seem Artist as Ethologist Arnaud Gerspacher 2022 Fall
- Toward a posthumanist art and ethology
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Solarities Seeking Energy Justice After Oil Collective Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors 2022 Fall
- A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation
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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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Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2022 Spring
- Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion
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Out of Breath Vulnerability of Air in Contemporary Art Caterina Albano 2022 Fall
- Explores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing, through contemporary art
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Cosplay The Fictional Mode of Existence Frenchy Lunning 2022 Spring
- An exploration of cosplay and its relationship with the realms of its global fandom, performance, and the modes of fictional existence
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Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring
- Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment
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Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring
- A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices
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Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation Matthew Biro 2022 Spring
- The first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and his critical views on the culture of mass media
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Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2021 Fall
- More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands
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Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2021 Fall
- Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
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The Poetics of Cruising Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr 2022 Spring
- A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets
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Cut/Copy/Paste Fragments from the History of Bookwork Whitney Trettien 2021 Fall
- How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?
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Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall
- A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world
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The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall
- How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America
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Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice
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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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Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring
- How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
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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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Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall
- A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
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The World Is Gone Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic Gregg Lambert 2022 Spring
- Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditations
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Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall
- A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
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The Burden of Representation Essays on Photographies and Histories John Tagg 2021 Fall
- A powerhouse in photographic theory—updated and with a new essay
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Young-Girls in Echoland #Theorizing Tiqqun Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson 2022 Spring
- Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child?
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How We Became Sensorimotor Movement, Measurement, Sensation Mark Paterson 2021 Fall
- An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body’s inner senses
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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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Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall
- The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child
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Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall
- A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it
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Profit over Privacy How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet Matthew Crain 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet
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Envisioning Evil “The Nazi Drawings” by Mauricio Lasansky Rachel McGarry 2021 Fall
- The definitive study of this powerful series of drawings by the influential artist
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Tolerance and Risk How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims Mitra Rastegar 2021 Fall
- How apparently positive representations in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population
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Written by the Body Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities Lisa Tatonetti 2021 Fall
- Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film
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The Editor Function Literary Publishing in Postwar America Abram Foley 2021 Fall
- Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring
- The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
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Ambivalent Childhoods Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Jacob Breslow 2021 Spring
- Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible
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The Global Shelter Imaginary IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher 2021 Fall
- Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed
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Savage Mind to Savage Machine Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design Ginger Nolan 2020 Fall
- An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design
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The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value Seb Franklin 2021 Spring
- Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism
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The Black Reproductive Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood Sara Clarke Kaplan 2021 Spring
- How Black women’s reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy—and remains key to their dismantling
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Outward Adrienne Rich’s Expanding Solitudes Ed Pavlić 2021 Spring
- The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships
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Intolerable Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) Michel Foucault and Prisons Information Group Edited by Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners
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The Filing Cabinet A Vertical History of Information Craig Robertson 2021 Spring
- The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information
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Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect Romi Crawford, Editor 2021 Spring
- A collaboration of artists and writers commemorates a powerful symbol for social justice and freedom on Chicago’s South Side
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Solo Viola A Post-Exotic Novel Antoine Volodine 2021 Spring
- A harrowing early novel by one of France’s most unusual contemporary writers
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Singularity Politics and Poetics Samuel Weber 2021 Spring
- An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature
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The Speculative City Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles Susanna Phillips Newbury 2021 Spring
- A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles
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Fates of the Performative From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism Jeffrey T. Nealon 2021 Spring
- A powerful new examination of the performative that asks “what’s next?” for this well-worn concept
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The Dispossessed Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor Daniel Bensaïd 2021 Spring
- Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization
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Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin, Editors 2020 Fall
- Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print
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Training for Catastrophe Fictions of National Security after 9/11 Lindsay Thomas 2021 Spring
- A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world
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Cosmic Trip Rock Concerts at the Minneapolis Labor Temple 1969-1970 Christian A. Peterson 2021 Fall
- A trip through Minneapolis rock concert history framed through psychedelic poster art
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Deep Mediations Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures Karen Beckman and Jeff Scheible, Editors 2021 Spring
- The preoccupation with “depth” and its relevance to cinema and media studies
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The Radical Bookstore Counterspace for Social Movements Kimberley Kinder 2021 Spring
- Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve as launching pads for social movements
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Discomfort Food The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art Marni Reva Kessler 2021 Spring
- An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke
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Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class Catherine Liu 2021 Spring
- A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism
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Contingent Figure Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment Michael D. Snediker 2021 Spring
- A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic pain
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Breathing Race into the Machine The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Lundy Braun 2021 Spring
- How race became embedded in a medical instrument
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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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As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2021 Spring
- How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism
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The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall
- A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
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Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 2020 Fall
- Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema
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Grounded Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic Christopher Schaberg 2021 Spring
- As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here
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The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender Marquis Bey 2020 Fall
- A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed
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Sounds from the Other Side Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music Elliott H. Powell 2020 Fall
- A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations
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The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall
- Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
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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