Arts and Humanities Sale: Theory
BOOKS ON SALE
All books below are 40% off using code MNMLA23. Code expires April 1, 2023.
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Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring
- A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
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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
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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
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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
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Glissant and the Middle Passage Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss John E. Drabinski 2019 Spring
- A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness
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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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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring
- The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
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Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring
- Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures
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Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
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Edges of the State John Protevi 2019 Fall
- Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature
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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
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Anthropocene Poetics Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction David Farrier 2019 Spring
- How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time
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Information Fantasies Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China Xiao Liu 2019 Spring
- A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses
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Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring
- On the social consequences of machines
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Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring
- A media theory of markets
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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
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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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Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall
- An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
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Before the Law The Complete Text of Préjugés Jacques Derrida 2018 Fall
- Thinking judgment in relation to the work of Jean-François Lyotard
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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
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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
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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
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Survival of the Fireflies Georges Didi-Huberman 2018 Fall
- Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism
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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
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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
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What Is Information? Peter Janich 2018 Spring
- A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker
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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
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Deconstruction Machines Writing in the Age of Cyberwar Justin Joque 2018 Spring
- A bold new theory of cyberwar argues that militarized hacking is best understood as a form of deconstruction
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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
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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
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Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring
- Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
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Veer Ecology A Companion for Environmental Thinking Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Editors 2017 Fall
- An innovative toolkit designed to prompt new awareness of the risk and potential of living on—and with—an alarmingly dynamic planet
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Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall
- A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
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Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall
- An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
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Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring
- Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
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The Language of Plants Science, Philosophy, Literature Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan and Patrícia Vieira, Editors 2017 Spring
- Exploring the idea that plants can think, feel, and communicate as a way of reconfiguring our relationship with the natural world
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Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux 2017 Spring
- A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames
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For All Waters Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes Lowell Duckert 2017 Spring
- The Shakespearean era’s wet writers guide our eco-way today
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Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring
- A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture
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Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring
- A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory
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Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring
- Challenging the view that caring is only human
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Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast A Multispecies Impression Julian Yates 2017 Spring
- Refocusing our lens on literature and history to lives beyond the human
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The Child to Come Life after the Human Catastrophe Rebekah Sheldon 2016 Fall
- A bold new reading of the child for the twenty-first century, with implications for contemporary environmentalism
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How Noise Matters to Finance N. Adriana Knouf 2016 Spring
- The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise
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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? Vinciane Despret 2016 Spring
- A provocative challenge to the marginalization of “humanlike” aspects of animal life
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2016 Spring
- If the publication of Debates in the Digital Humanities in 2012 marked the “digital humanities moment,” this book—the first in a series of annual volumes—will chart the possibilities and tensions of the field as it grows.
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Dark Deleuze Andrew Culp 2016 Spring
- Rekindling Deleuze’s opposition to what is intolerable about this world
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Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring
- Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
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Cinema without Reflection Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift Akira Mizuta Lippit 2016 Spring
- Excavates a theory of cinema in Derrida’s writing on love, narcissism, echopoiesis, and fluidity