Collection: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2023

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Revenant Ecologies Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation Audra Mitchell 2023 Fall: Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinction
Horror in Architecture The Reanimated Edition Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing 2023 Fall: A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues
Queer Networks Ray Johnson’s Correspondence Art Miriam Kienle 2023 Fall: How the queer correspondence art of Ray Johnson disrupted art world conventions and anticipated today’s highly networked culture
Care without Pathology How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine Christoph Hanssmann 2023 Fall: Examining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape
Estado Vegetal Performance and Plant-Thinking Giovanni Aloi, Editor 2023 Fall: Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infante’s award-winning play explore the relationship between critical plant studies and performance art in the Anthropocene
Ugly White People Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America Stephanie Li 2023 Fall: Whiteness revealed: an analysis of the destructive complacency of white self-consciousness
Border Tunnels A Media Theory of the U.S.–Mexico Underground Juan Llamas-Rodriguez 2023 Fall: A comparative media analysis of the representation of the U.S.–Mexico border
No More Fossils Dominic Boyer 2024 Spring: Explores ecological impasses and opportunities of our fossil-fueled civilization
Archiving Medical Violence Consent and the Carceral State Christopher Perreira 2023 Fall: A major new reading of a U.S. public health system shaped by fraught perceptions of culture, race, and criminality
Creating Our Own Lives College Students with Intellectual Disability Michael Gill and Beth Myers, Editors 2023 Fall: Young adults with intellectual disability tell the story of their own experience of higher education
The New American War Film Robert Burgoyne 2023 Fall: A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century
In Visible Archives Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s Margaret Galvan 2023 Fall: Analyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities
The Affect Lab The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion Grant Bollmer 2023 Fall: Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it
Asians on Demand Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism Feng-Mei Heberer 2023 Fall: Does media representation advance racial justice?
Nietzsche’s Posthumanism Edgar Landgraf 2023 Fall: A timely and trenchant commentary on the centrality of Nietzsche’s thought for our time
In the Company of Radical Women Writers Rosemary Hennessy 2023 Spring: Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own
On the Digital Humanities Essays and Provocations Stephen Ramsay 2023 Fall: A witty and incisive exploration of the philosophical conundrums that animate the digital humanities
Empirical Ecocriticism Environmental Narratives for Social Change Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, Frank Hakemulder and W. P. Malecki, Editors 2023 Fall: A groundbreaking book that combines the environmental humanities and social sciences to study the impact of environmental stories
Fantasies of Precision American Modern Art, 1908–1947 Ashley Lazevnick 2023 Spring: Redefining the artistic movement that helped shape American modernism
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
Nothing Permanent Modern Architecture in California Todd Cronan 2023 Spring: A critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architecture’s most widely known and misunderstood movements
Noah’s Arkive Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates 2023 Spring: A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose
Operational Images From the Visual to the Invisual Jussi Parikka 2023 Spring: An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics
Crip Negativity J. Logan Smilges 2023 Spring: Imagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion
Inside the Spiral The Passions of Robert Smithson Suzaan Boettger 2023 Spring: An expansive and revelatory study of Robert Smithson’s life and the hidden influences on his iconic creations
Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic Charlotte Wrigley 2023 Spring: Exploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change—thawing permafrost—and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet
The Birth of Computer Vision James E. Dobson 2023 Spring: A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies
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
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
The Lichen Museum A. Laurie Palmer 2023 Spring: A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations
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
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
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
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
African Meditations Felwine Sarr 2022 Fall: An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on his native Senegal after years of study abroad
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
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
Imagination and Invention Gilbert Simondon 2022 Fall: A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images
Dancing Indigenous Worlds Choreographies of Relation Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2022 Fall: The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples
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
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
Angry Planet Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World Anne Stewart 2022 Fall: Before the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet
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
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
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
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
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
Iron Curtain Journals January–May 1965 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall: The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals
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
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
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
The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring: Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police
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
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
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
Rescue Me On Dogs and Their Humans Margret Grebowicz 2023 Spring: What exactly is it we want from dogs today?
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
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
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
Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring: How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
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
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
The Owls Are Not What They Seem Artist as Ethologist Arnaud Gerspacher 2022 Fall: Toward a posthumanist art and ethology
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
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
Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2021 Fall: Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion
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
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
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
Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring: Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment
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
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
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
Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2022 Spring: Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring: Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
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
Cut/Copy/Paste Fragments from the History of Bookwork Whitney Trettien 2021 Fall: How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?
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
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
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
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
Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring: How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
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
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
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
Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall: A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
The Burden of Representation Essays on Photographies and Histories John Tagg 2021 Fall: A powerhouse in photographic theory—updated and with a new essay
Young-Girls in Echoland #Theorizing Tiqqun Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson 2022 Spring: Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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