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Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring

All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it

LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring

Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States

Wageless Life A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone 2020 Spring

Drawing up alternate ways to “make a living” beyond capitalism

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

Degrees of Freedom The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912 William D. Green 2020 Spring

The true story, and the black citizens, behind the evolution of racial equality in Minnesota

The Decision of Desire Silvia Lippi 2020 Spring

A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance

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

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

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

Circuit Listening Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Andrew F. Jones 2020 Spring

How the Chinese pop of the 1960s participated in a global musical revolution

Urbanism without Guarantees The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood Christian M. Anderson 2020 Spring

A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics

Hacked Transmissions Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi 2020 Spring

Mapping the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day

Fishing! A Novel Sarah Stonich 2020 Spring

A hilarious saga of fishing, family, and three generations of tough, independent women—the first in a trilogy

Grocery Activism The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota Craig B. Upright 2020 Spring

A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today

Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring

Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color

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

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

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

Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring

The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement

On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring

An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality

What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring

Examining the personal library and the making of self

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

The Death of Asylum Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago Alison Mountz 2020 Spring

Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations

Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac 2020 Spring

A new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine—a sweeping narrative of corrupted idealism in a cynical urban milieu

The Shapes of Fancy Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature Christine Varnado 2020 Spring

Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality

Hungry Listening Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies Dylan Robinson 2020 Spring

Reimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experience

An Archive of Taste Race and Eating in the Early United States Lauren F. Klein 2020 Spring

A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature

The Streel A Deadwood Mystery Mary Logue 2020 Spring

From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in nineteenth-century Deadwood

Surgical Renaissance in the Heartland A Memoir of the Wangensteen Era Henry Buchwald 2020 Spring

The golden era in American surgery, described by a young doctor practicing under innovator Owen Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota

News Parade The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle Joseph Clark 2020 Spring

A fascinating look at the United States’ conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel

Decarcerating Disability Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Liat Ben-Moshe 2020 Spring

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration

Listening Interviews, 1970–1989 Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring

A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott’s remarkable writings

The Elements of Foucault Gregg Lambert 2020 Spring

A new conceptual diagram of Foucault’s original vision of the biopolitical order

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

Action at a Distance John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger and Christina Vagt 2020 Spring

How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?

Piotr Szyhalski We Are Working All the Time! Diane Mullin, Editor 2020 Spring

The first comprehensive study of this innovative and interactive multimedia artist

Isherwood in Transit James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2020 Spring

New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer

Arrested Welcome Hospitality in Contemporary Art Irina Aristarkhova 2020 Spring

Interpreting the meaning of hospitality in an unwelcoming political moment

Minnesota’s Geologist The Life of Newton Horace Winchell Sue Leaf 2020 Spring

The story of the scientist who first mapped Minnesota’s geology, set against the backdrop of early scientific inquiry in the state

The Shared Room Kao Kalia Yang 2020 Spring

A family gradually moves forward after the loss of a child—a story for readers of all ages

Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World Christine Harold 2020 Spring

A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste

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

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

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

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

Invoking Hope Theory and Utopia in Dark Times Phillip E. Wegner 2020 Spring

An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times

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

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

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

Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify Essays Carolyn Holbrook 2020 Spring

The compassionate and redemptive story of a prominent Black woman in the Twin Cities literary community

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?

Upcoming Events

FISHING! blog tour with Sarah Stonich Jun 08, 2020 08:00 AM
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MAGICAL REALISM FOR NON-BELIEVERS virtual event with the Brainerd Public Library and Anika Fajardo Jun 08, 2020 12:00 PM
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THE SHARED ROOM virtual launch event with Kao Kalia Yang and Xee Reiter Jun 09, 2020 10:00 AM
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THE STREEL virtual launch event with Next Chapter Booksellers and Mary Logue Jun 09, 2020 07:00 PM
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SURGICAL RENAISSANCE IN THE HEARTLAND virtual launch event with Henry Buchwald Jun 10, 2020 06:00 PM
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