ASAP: Environment
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. 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 MN89700. Code expires November 15, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DIGITAL CULTURE // ETHNOGRAPHY
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GEOGRAPHY
LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM // DISABILITY STUDIES
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall
- A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
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Thinking Plant Animal Human Encounters with Communities of Difference David Wood 2020 Spring
- Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology
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Red Gold The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna Jennifer E. Telesca 2020 Spring
- Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures
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Bleak Joys Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova 2019 Fall
- A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life
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An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall
- Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation
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Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall
- Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945
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Break Up the Anthropocene Steve Mentz 2019 Fall
- Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch
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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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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