Virtual Exhibit Hub: College Art Association 2022
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A NEW SERIES: ART AFTER NATURE
BROWSE BOOKS:
ART HISTORY // ARCHITECTURE // VISUAL CULTURE // DESIGN
THEORY // PHILOSOPHY // ENVIRONMENT // MEDIA AND FILM
DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE // MUSIC // PHOTOGRAPHY
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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- The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals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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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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Architecture and Objects Graham Harman 2022 Spring
- Thinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function
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On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring
- A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France
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Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Marika Cifor 2022 Spring
- Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive
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Game Animals, Video Games, and Humanity Thomas R.J. Tyler 2022 Spring
- A playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can teach us about the other
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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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Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring
- An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging
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My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2022 Spring
- From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom
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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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Side Affects On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Hil Malatino 2022 Spring
- How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing
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What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilém Flusser 2022 Spring
- An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter
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Cacaphonies The Excremental Canon of French Literature Annabel L. Kim 2022 Spring
- Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matter
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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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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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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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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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The Lab Book Situated Practices in Media Studies Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka 2022 Spring
- An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life
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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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Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring
- Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization
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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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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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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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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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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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People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall
- An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
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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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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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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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Anime's Identity Performativity and Form beyond Japan 2021 Fall
- A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism
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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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Reconstructing the Garrick Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece John Vinci, Editor 2021 Fall
- A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago’s greatest lost buildings
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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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Louis Sullivan’s Idea Tim Samuelson 2021 Fall
- A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America’s renowned architect
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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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Art and Cosmotechnics Yuk Hui 2020 Spring
- In light of current discourses on AI and robotics, what do the various experiences of art contribute to the rethinking of technology today?
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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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Letters from Tove Tove Jansson 2021 Fall
- A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins
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The Rhythm of Images Cinema beyond Measure Domietta Torlasco 2021 Spring
- A rigorous and imaginative inquiry into rhythm’s vital importance for film and the moving image
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The Lesser Existences Étienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual David Lapoujade 2021 Spring
- On the complex aesthetics and ontology at work in Étienne Souriau’s unique oeuvre
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B. J. O. Nordfeldt American Internationalist Gabriel Weisberg, Editor 2021 Spring
- This “painter’s painter” constantly explored the variety of American modernist art, inspired by many locations and artistic styles
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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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Really Fake Alexandra Juhasz, Ganaele Langlois and Nishant Shah 2020 Fall
- More important than flagging things “really fake” is to understand why they are dismissed as fake
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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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Curiosity and Power The Politics of Inquiry Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity
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The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring
- Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies
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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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Clang Jacques Derrida 2020 Fall
- A new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other
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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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The Materiality of Architecture Antoine Picon 2020 Fall
- A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies
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The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art Peggy Wang 2021 Spring
- A revelatory reclaiming of five iconic Chinese artists and their place in art history
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Timescales Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, Editors 2020 Fall
- Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis
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Ends of Cinema Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Editors 2020 Fall
- Leading film and media scholars discuss multiple “ends” in the history of cinema
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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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How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940 Thomas C. Hubka 2020 Spring
- The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes
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Blackness in Morocco Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture Cynthia J. Becker 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation
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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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Capture American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition Antoine Traisnel 2020 Fall
- Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human–animal relations
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Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall
- A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
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The Invention of Public Space Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Mariana Mogilevich 2020 Spring
- The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space
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Practicing the Good Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism Keti Chukhrov 2020 Spring
- A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory
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Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring
- A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living
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Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volume II Volume II: Supplemental Texts Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring
- Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, early drafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual
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Documents of Doubt The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art Heather Diack 2020 Spring
- A major reassessment of photography’s pivotal role in 1960s conceptual art
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Arrested Welcome Hospitality in Contemporary Art Irina Aristarkhova 2020 Spring
- Interpreting the meaning of hospitality in an unwelcoming political moment
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Piotr Szyhalski We Are Working All the Time! Diane Mullin, Editor 2020 Spring
- The first comprehensive study of this innovative and interactive multimedia artist
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Bring That Beat Back How Sampling Built Hip-Hop Nate Patrin 2020 Spring
- How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
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Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring
- The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement
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Pipers at the Gates of Dawn The Wisdom of Children’s Literature Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring
- Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition
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The Metabolist Imagination Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner 2020 Spring
- Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors
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Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring
- The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
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Elizabeth Scheu Close A Life in Modern Architecture Jane King Hession 2020 Spring
- An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota’s first modern architect
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Clocking Out The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema Karen Pinkus 2020 Spring
- An original reflection on Italy’s postwar boom considers potentials for resistance in today’s neoliberal (dis)order
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Perpetual Motion Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common Harmony Bench 2020 Spring
- A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world
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Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring
- A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience
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Harriet Bart Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection Laura Wertheim Joseph, Editor 2019 Fall
- A retrospective and creatively collaborative review of this international feminist conceptual artist
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Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring
- A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames
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Museums Inside Out Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies Mark W. Rectanus 2020 Spring
- An ambitious study of what it means to be a museum in the twenty-first century
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Curating as Ethics Jean-Paul Martinon 2020 Spring
- A new ethics for the global practice of curating
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Design Technics Archaeologies of Architectural Practice Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, Editors 2019 Fall
- Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design
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The Responsive Environment Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s Larry D. Busbea 2019 Fall
- How new conceptions of human–environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s
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Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring
- A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power
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The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring
- A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
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Asemic The Art of Writing Peter Schwenger 2019 Fall
- The first critical study of writing without language
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Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall
- A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
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Afrotopia Felwine Sarr 2019 Fall
- A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century
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Schizogenesis The Art of Rosemarie Trockel Katherine Guinness 2019 Fall
- A deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity
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LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring
- Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States
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