Virtual Exhibit Hub: Modern Language Association 2023
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Murray Talks Music Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 2016 Spring
- Rare and previously unpublished work from an influential critic, cultural theorist, and champion of jazz
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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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On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects Gilbert Simondon 2016 Spring
- A groundbreaking study on the universe of technical objects by one of France’s most important thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century.
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The Age of Lovecraft Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editors 2016 Spring
- The first sustained look at Lovecraft in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture
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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
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Speculative Blackness The Future of Race in Science Fiction André M. Carrington 2016 Spring
- Examines race through fanzines, Star Trek, comic books, and Harry Potter
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Elemental Ecocriticism Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Editors 2015 Fall
- Brings to ecotheory and the environmental humanities the challenges and possibilities offered by thinking in elemental terms
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Shipwreck Modernity Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 Steve Mentz 2015 Fall
- The familiar story of shipwreck revealed as an allegory of ecological catastrophe
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How to Talk about Videogames Ian Bogost 2015 Fall
- A fond look at the preposterous—and yet essential—pursuit of games criticism
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Martin Heidegger Saved My Life Grant Farred 2015 Fall
- Could there be a bigger paradox than the black man using Martin Heidegger to repel the white woman's racism?
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Stone An Ecology of the Inhuman Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 2015 Spring
- A beautifully written account of stone’s intimacy to what it means to be human
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A Geology of Media Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring
- A sweeping new ecological take on technology
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Already Doing It Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Michael Gill 2015 Spring
- Exploring and exposing efforts to restrict the sexuality of intellectually disabled people
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Physics of Blackness Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology Michelle M. Wright 2015 Spring
- Reveals how assumptions we make about time and space inhibit more inclusive definitions of Blackness
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The Nonhuman Turn Richard Grusin, Editor 2015 Spring
- A groundbreaking work introducing a new series in twenty-first-century studies
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Slaves of the State Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary Dennis Childs 2015 Spring
- A sweeping cultural history of U.S. prison slavery
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No Speed Limit Three Essays on Accelerationism Steven Shaviro 2015 Spring
- Proposes a vision of survival and flourishing in the face of economic and environmental catastrophe
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The American Isherwood James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2014 Fall
- Shines a critical spotlight on the American life of the famed author
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Civil Rights Childhood Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks Katharine Capshaw 2014 Fall
- The unexpected and evocative role of children’s photographic books in cultural transformation and social change
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Mediators Aesthetics, Politics, and the City Reinhold Martin 2015 Spring
- Toward a theory of the city at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics
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The Anthrobscene Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring
- Critiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era
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The Universe of Things On Speculative Realism Steven Shaviro 2014 Fall
- An up-to-the-moment critique of a recent turn in philosophical thought
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Insistence of the Material Literature in the Age of Biopolitics Christopher Breu 2014 Fall
- A provocative reconsideration of experimental fiction from the late twentieth century
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Reading Writing Interfaces From the Digital to the Bookbound 2014 Spring
- Uncovers a lineage of writers and thinkers who have rebelled against the means of production
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The Essential Ellen Willis Ellen Willis Nona Willis Aronowitz, Editor 2014 Spring
- From pioneering rock music critic Ellen Willis, iconoclastic essays on politics and culture
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Voices of Fire Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hiʻiaka kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui 2014 Spring
- Restoring the literature of Pele and Hi‘iaka to its rightful place in Native culture and identity
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Cinders Jacques Derrida 2014 Spring
- A haunting work of poetic self-analysis that finds in the fragility and resilience of ashes a paradigm for the relation of language to the living and the dead
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Nobody Is Supposed to Know Black Sexuality on the Down Low C. Riley Snorton 2014 Spring
- How the “down low” media phenomenon reinforces troubling representations of black sexuality
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Summa Technologiae Stanisław Lem 2014 Spring
- From the acclaimed author of the science fiction novel Solaris, a pre-Dawkins exposition of evolution as a blind and chaotic watchmaker
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Prismatic Ecology Ecotheory beyond Green Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Editor 2013 Fall
- Traces the impress and agency of ecologies that cannot be reduced to the bucolic expanses of green readings
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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
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Native American DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear 2013 Fall
- How identifying Native Americans is vastly more complicated than matching DNA
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Corridor Media Architectures in American Fiction Kate Marshall 2013 Spring
- How neglected architectural spaces act as media in modern American novels
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Mark My Words Native Women Mapping Our Nations Mishuana Goeman 2013 Spring
- Examining the role of twentieth-century Native women’s literature in remapping settler geographies
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The Reorder of Things The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference Roderick A. Ferguson 2012 Fall
- A critical account of how academia and global capital appropriated the revolutionary fervor of the 1960s and 1970s
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Vampyroteuthis Infernalis A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec 2012 Fall
- Pondering the human condition while examining the vampire squid from hell
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Two Lessons on Animal and Man Gilbert Simondon 2012 Fall
- The increasingly influential French philosopher presents the history of philosophical discourse in regard to humans, animals, and the vegetal
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Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing Ian Bogost 2012 Spring
- A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Erica R. Edwards 2012 Spring
- How a preoccupation with charismatic leadership in African American culture has influenced literature from World War I to the present
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Cosmopolitics II Isabelle Stengers 2011 Fall
- A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science’s claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth
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How to Do Things With Videogames Ian Bogost 2011 Fall
- A fresh look at computer games as a mature mass medium with unlimited potential for cultural transformation
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A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans with A Theory of Meaning Jakob von Uexküll 2010 Fall
- The influential work of speculative biology—and a key document in posthumanist studies—now available in a new, accurate English translation
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Cosmopolitics I Isabelle Stengers 2010 Spring
- A sweeping critique of the role and authority of modern science in contemporary society
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What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 2009 Fall
- Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism
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When Species Meet Donna J. Haraway 2007 Fall
- Whom do we touch when we touch a dog? How does this touch shape our multispecies world?
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Treatments Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness Lisa Diedrich 2007 Spring
- Delving into the controversial relationship between illness and art, philosophy and politics
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The Adrienne Kennedy Reader Adrienne Kennedy 2001 Fall
- An essential collection of works by one of our greatest living playwrights.
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Disidentifications Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics José Esteban Muñoz 1999 Spring
- An important new perspective on the ways outsiders negotiate mainstream culture.
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Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics Davide Panagia 2016 Fall
- Reckoning the unsettled relationship between aesthetics and politics
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The Politics of Bitcoin Software as Right-Wing Extremism David Golumbia 2016 Fall
- The first comprehensive account of Bitcoin’s underlying right-wing politics
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Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age Mark Jarzombek 2016 Fall
- Rethinking the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology