Media Studies Book Sale: Forerunners series
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Books on sale, special selection: Forerunners series.
40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MNSCMS23. Code expires June 15, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
FILM // MEDIA THEORY // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL CULTURE // MUSIC AND SOUND STUDIES // VISUAL CULTURE
DESIGN // PHILOSOPHY // ANIMATION // VIDEOGAMES
COMMUNICATIONS // GRAPHIC ARTS // PHOTOGRAPHY
ENVIRONMENT // OPEN ACCESS TITLES // FORERUNNERS
POSTHUMANITIES SERIES // ELECTRONIC MEDIATIONS SERIES
IN SEARCH OF MEDIA SERIES // UNIVOCAL SERIES
BACK TO ALL MEDIA STUDIES BOOKS ON SALE
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Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now 2022 Spring
- A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world
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Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring
- How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
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The World Is Gone Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic Gregg Lambert 2022 Spring
- Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditations
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Young-Girls in Echoland #Theorizing Tiqqun Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson 2022 Spring
- Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child?
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Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall
- What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
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Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class Catherine Liu 2021 Spring
- A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism
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Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall
- A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
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Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Sarah Juliet Lauro 2020 Fall
- Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable
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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
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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
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How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall
- An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
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Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Arne De Boever 2019 Fall
- Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics
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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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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring
- Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
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The Neocolonialism of the Global Village Ginger Nolan 2018 Fall
- Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan
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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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Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring
- Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
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Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall
- Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
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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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A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring
- Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
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Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring
- Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
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Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers Past as Prologue Sohail Daulatzai 2016 Fall
- A fresh, important intervention into understanding our post-9/11 world
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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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Dark Deleuze Andrew Culp 2016 Spring
- Rekindling Deleuze’s opposition to what is intolerable about this world
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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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Mandela’s Dark Years A Political Theory of Dreaming Sharon Sliwinski 2016 Spring
- Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life
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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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The Geek’s Chihuahua Living with Apple Ian Bogost 2015 Spring
- The evolution and meaning of our love affair with Apple and its devices
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Deep Mapping the Media City Shannon Mattern 2015 Spring
- Examines the material spaces in which our networks entangle themselves
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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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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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The Celebrity Persona Pandemic P. David Marshall 2016 Fall
- Making sense of public identities, online and offline
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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