Virtual Exhibit Hub: Modern Language Association 2023

Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 annual meeting of the Modern Language Association. Books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.

Humanities & Arts Book Sale

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS

Welcome to the University of Minnesota Press's virtual presence at the 2023 annual meeting of the Modern Language Association.


All books below qualify for 40% off using code MNMLA23. Code expires April 1, 2023.

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NEW AND FORTHCOMING BOOKS:

NONFICTION

  • Making Love with the Land
  • Allotment Stories
  • The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself
  • White Burgers, Black Cash
  • Queer Silence

 

ENVIRONMENT

  • Noah's Arkive
  • Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood
  • The Environmental Unconscious
  • The Lichen Museum
  • Citizens of Worlds

 

LITERARY STUDIES

  • In the Company of Radical Women Writers
  • Angry Planet
  • Isherwood on Writing
  • The Silence of the Miskito Prince
  • Subsurface

 

PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY

  • Making Sense in Common
  • Imagination and Invention
  • The Comic Self
  • African Meditations
  • Rough Metaphysics

 

DIGITAL CULTURE

  • Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023
  • A Theory of Assembly
  • The Birth of Computer Vision
  • Operational Images
  • The Prison House of the Circuit

 

RELEASING IN JANUARY

  • The Long 2020
  • Dancing Indigenous Worlds
  • Chinese Film
  • The Architecture of Disability
  • Take My Word for It

 

FORERUNNERS

  • Rescue Me
  • The World Is Gone
  • Solarities
  • Endlings
  • Does the Earth Care?

 

NEW & FORTHCOMING IN PAPERBACK

  • Iron Curtain Journals
  • The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971
  • South American Journals
  • The Frankfurt School in Exile
  • Stories from Jonestown

 

BROWSE BOOKS:

PHILOSOPHY    //    THEORY    //    SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ENVIRONMENT    //    LITERARY CRITICISM    //    GENDER AND SEXUALITY    //    RACE

NEW LITERATURE    //    NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES    //    EDUCATION

ART AND ART HISTORY    //    ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN    //    MEDIA STUDIES

DIGITAL CULTURE    //    FILM    //    DISABILITY STUDIES    //    ANIMAL STUDIES

PSYCHEDELIC STORIES    //    DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE

FORERUNNERS SERIES    //    IN SEARCH OF MEDIA SERIES    //    POSTHUMANITIES SERIES

DEBATES IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES SERIES    //    ELECTRONIC MEDIATIONS SERIES

UNIVOCAL SERIES    //    ART AFTER NATURE SERIES 

Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues 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
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? 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
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 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.
Dark Deleuze Dark Deleuze Andrew Culp 2016 Spring
Rekindling Deleuze’s opposition to what is intolerable about this world
On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects 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.
The Age of Lovecraft 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
Manifestly Haraway 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
Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift 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
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction 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
Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire 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
Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 Shipwreck Modernity Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 Steve Mentz 2015 Fall
The familiar story of shipwreck revealed as an allegory of ecological catastrophe
How to Talk about Videogames How to Talk about Videogames Ian Bogost 2015 Fall
A fond look at the preposterous—and yet essential—pursuit of games criticism
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life 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?
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman 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
A Geology of Media A Geology of Media Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring
A sweeping new ecological take on technology
Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Already Doing It Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Michael Gill 2015 Spring
Exploring and exposing efforts to restrict the sexuality of intellectually disabled people
Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology 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
The Nonhuman Turn The Nonhuman Turn Richard Grusin, Editor 2015 Spring
A groundbreaking work introducing a new series in twenty-first-century studies
Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary 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
No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism 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
The American Isherwood The American Isherwood James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2014 Fall
Shines a critical spotlight on the American life of the famed author
Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks 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
Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City Mediators Aesthetics, Politics, and the City Reinhold Martin 2015 Spring
Toward a theory of the city at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics
The Anthrobscene The Anthrobscene Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring
Critiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era
The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism The Universe of Things On Speculative Realism Steven Shaviro 2014 Fall
An up-to-the-moment critique of a recent turn in philosophical thought
Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics 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
Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound 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
The Essential Ellen Willis 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
Voices of Fire: Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hiʻiaka 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
Cinders 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
Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low 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
Summa Technologiae 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
Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green 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
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World 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
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science 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
Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction Corridor Media Architectures in American Fiction Kate Marshall 2013 Spring
How neglected architectural spaces act as media in modern American novels
Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations 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
The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference 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
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste 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
Two Lessons on Animal and Man 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
Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing 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
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership 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
Cosmopolitics II Cosmopolitics II Isabelle Stengers 2011 Fall
A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science’s claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth
How to Do Things With Videogames 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
A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: with A Theory of Meaning 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
Cosmopolitics I Cosmopolitics I Isabelle Stengers 2010 Spring
A sweeping critique of the role and authority of modern science in contemporary society
What Is Posthumanism? What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 2009 Fall
Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism
When Species Meet 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?
Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness Treatments Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness Lisa Diedrich 2007 Spring
Delving into the controversial relationship between illness and art, philosophy and politics
The Adrienne Kennedy Reader The Adrienne Kennedy Reader Adrienne Kennedy 2001 Fall
An essential collection of works by one of our greatest living playwrights.
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics 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.
Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics Davide Panagia 2016 Fall
Reckoning the unsettled relationship between aesthetics and politics
The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism The Politics of Bitcoin Software as Right-Wing Extremism David Golumbia 2016 Fall
The first comprehensive account of Bitcoin’s underlying right-wing politics
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age Mark Jarzombek 2016 Fall
Rethinking the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology