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Sound, Image, Silence Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World Michael Gaudio 2019 Fall: A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images
Scenarios III Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde Werner Herzog 2019 Fall: For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works
Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Alexander Wilson 2019 Fall: A new speculative ontology of aesthetics
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
Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring: All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
Discourse, Figure Jean-François Lyotard 2020 Spring: Lyotard’s earliest major work, available in English for the first time
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
Avant-Garde in the Cornfields Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino, Editors 2019 Spring: A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy
Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall: A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
Sensations of History Animation and New Media Art James J. Hodge 2019 Fall: A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history
Vital Forms Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life Jennifer Johung 2019 Fall: Shows how the intersection of biotech, art, and architecture are transforming the world we live in
Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall: A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization
Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring: A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
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
How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall: An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
The Eloquent Screen A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 2019 Spring: A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move us
Burgers in Blackface Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2019 Fall: A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding
Philosophy of New Music Theodor W. Adorno Robert Hullot-Kentor, Editor 2019 Fall: An indispensable key to Adorno’s influential oeuvre—now in paperback
Archives Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak and Rick Prelinger 2019 Fall: How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users
Playing with the Book Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader Hannah Field 2019 Spring: A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts
Architectures of the Unforeseen Essays in the Occurrent Arts Brian Massumi 2019 Spring: A beautifully written study of three pioneering artists, entwining their work and our understanding of creativity
Anti-Electra The Radical Totem of the Girl Elisabeth von Samsonow 2019 Spring: A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex”
Break Up the Anthropocene Steve Mentz 2019 Fall: Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Arne De Boever 2019 Fall: Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring: The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Zachary J. Violette 2019 Spring: A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring: Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures
Design, Nature, and Revolution Toward a Critical Ecology Tomás Maldonado 2019 Spring
Living on Campus An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Carla Yanni 2019 Spring
Bad Film Histories Ethnography and the Early Archive Katherine Groo 2019 Spring: A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives
Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring: An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé
Unapologetic Beauty Joanna Frueh 2019 Spring: A startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beauty
Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring: A media theory of markets
The Tomb of the Artisan God On Plato’s Timaeus Serge Margel 2019 Spring: A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and its engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original French edition profoundly influenced Derrida
The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring: A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
Constructing Imperial Berlin Photography and the Metropolis Miriam Paeslack 2018 Fall: How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image—and one another—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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
Graphic Assembly Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s Craig Buckley 2018 Fall: An innovative look at the contribution of montage to twentieth-century architecture
DIA-LOGOS Ramon Llull's Method of Thought and Artistic Practice Amador Vega, Peter Weibel and Siegfried Zielinski, Editors 2018 Fall: The life and work of the outstanding Catalan-Majorcan philosopher, logician, and mystic Ramon Llull continues to fascinate thinkers, artists, and scholars worldwide
Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall: A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture
Chromographia American Literature and the Modernization of Color Nicholas Gaskill 2018 Fall: The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930
The Poem Electric Technology and the American Lyric Seth Perlow 2018 Fall: An enlightening examination of the relationship between poetry and the information technologies increasingly used to read and write it
Picturing the Postcard A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century Monica Cure 2018 Fall: The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium
Pictures of Longing Photography and the Norwegian–American Migration Sigrid Lien 2018 Fall: Haunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experience
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring: Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
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
The Alphonso Lingis Reader Alphonso Lingis Tom Sparrow, Editor 2018 Fall: A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy
Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
Enduring Images A Future History of New Left Cinema Morgan Adamson 2018 Fall: An integrated look at the political films of the 1960s and ’70s and how the New Left transformed cinema
The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall: Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
The Sound of Things to Come An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film Trace Reddell 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema
Scenarios II Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Fata Morgana; Heart of Glass Werner Herzog 2018 Fall: The second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable films
Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall: The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
Pattern Discrimination Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer and Hito Steyerl 2019 Spring: How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?
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
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
Survival of the Fireflies Georges Didi-Huberman 2018 Fall: Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism
Critical Mass Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave Steven Ungar 2018 Fall: Thirty-five years of nonfiction films offer a unique lens on twentieth-century French social issues
Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism Michael Tymkiw 2018 Spring: A new and challenging perspective on Nazi exhibition design
Language and Reality Vilém Flusser 2017 Fall: The first book by this astounding philosopher asserts that the universe, knowledge, truth, and reality are linguistic aspects
Modernism’s Visible Hand Architecture and Regulation in America Michael Osman 2018 Spring: A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States
After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring: A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring: Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
The Undocumented Everyday Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility Rebecca M. Schreiber 2018 Spring: Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
The Anime Ecology A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media Thomas Lamarre 2018 Spring: A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation
Judith F. Baca Anna Indych-López 2018 Spring: Behind the fascinating public artist’s practice of collaboration
Archaeologies of Touch Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi 2018 Spring: A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
Four Metaphors of Modernism From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme Jenny Anger 2018 Spring: Exploring the significance of metaphor in modern art
Movement, Action, Image, Montage Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis Luka Arsenjuk 2018 Spring: A major new study of Sergei Eisenstein delivers fresh, in-depth analyses of the iconic filmmaker’s body of work
The Truth Is Always Grey A History of Modernist Painting Frances Guerin 2018 Spring: Changing how we look at and think about the color grey
A Capsule Aesthetic Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art Kate Mondloch 2018 Spring: How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
Modernism as Memory Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany Kathleen James-Chakraborty 2017 Fall: Reexamining architecture and memory in postwar Berlin
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
Superhumanity Design of the Self Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle and Mark Wigley, Editors 2018 Spring: A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self
Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall: Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall: Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
Scenarios Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog 2017 Fall: The first in a series: Urtexts of the quintessential early films of Werner Herzog
Brouhaha Worlds of the Contemporary Lionel Ruffel 2017 Spring: A rigorous inquiry into the question of the “contemporary” in an era of hypermediation and globalization
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring: Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
Of Walking in Ice Munich–Paris, 23 November—14 December 1974 Werner Herzog 2015 Spring: Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s remarkable account of his journey on foot from Munich to Paris
Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Timothy Morton 2013 Fall: The world as we know it has already come to an end
Contemporary Korean Art Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method Joan Kee 2013 Spring: The first in-depth examination in English of twentieth-century Korea’s most important artistic movement
String, Felt, Thread The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art Elissa Auther 2009 Fall: A beautifully illustrated history of the use of fiber in the American art world in the postwar era