Disability Studies: Theory and Philosophy
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MN89030. Code expires June 1, 2022.
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SOCIAL JUSTICE // RACE // GENDER AND GLBT STUDIES // EDUCATION
SOCIOLOGY // CRIMINAL JUSTICE // THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY // LAW
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ART // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DESIGN // DIGITAL HUMANITIES
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The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
- A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
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The Life Worth Living Disability, Pain, and Morality Joel Michael Reynolds 2022 Spring
- A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain
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Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring
- A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
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Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower, Editors 2021 Fall
- How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm
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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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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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Intolerable Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) Michel Foucault and Prisons Information Group Edited by Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners
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Curiosity and Power The Politics of Inquiry Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity
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Contingent Figure Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment Michael D. Snediker 2021 Spring
- A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic pain
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Prosthesis David Wills 2021 Spring
- An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects
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Black Queer Flesh Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel Alvin J. Henry 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity
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Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall
- A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
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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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Deadly Biocultures The Ethics of Life-Making Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh R. Krupar 2019 Fall
- A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today
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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
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Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall
- Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945
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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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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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The User Unconscious On Affect, Media, and Measure Patricia Ticineto Clough 2018 Spring
- Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human
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After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
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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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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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Life A Modern Invention Davide Tarizzo 2017 Fall
- A paradigm-shifting genealogy of biological life as metaphysical concept rather than a scientific category
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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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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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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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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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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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The Assemblage Brain Sense Making in Neuroculture Tony D. Sampson 2017 Spring
- A radical new theory of the brain bridging science, philosophy, art, and politics
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Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall
- Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
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Object-Oriented Feminism Katherine Behar, Editor 2016 Fall
- A discipline-expanding book that explores the political and ethical potential of being an object
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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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The Capacity Contract Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship Stacy Clifford Simplican 2015 Spring
- An unprecedented look at democratic theory’s disability exclusion and today’s self-advocacy movement
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The Intellective Space Thinking beyond Cognition Laurent Dubreuil 2015 Spring
- A daring exploration of the space between language and 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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Sexuality in School The Limits of Education Jen Gilbert 2014 Spring
- Explores and expands on the role of sexuality in teaching and learning
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Body Drift Butler, Hayles, Haraway Arthur Kroker 2012 Fall
- Brings three major feminist theorists into critical dialogue for the first time
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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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Debates in the Digital Humanities Matthew K. Gold, Editor 2012 Spring
- Leading figures in the digital humanities explore the field’s rapid revolution
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Improper Life Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben Timothy C. Campbell 2011 Fall
- How biopolitics can get beyond its obsession with death
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Human Error Species-Being and Media Machines Dominic Pettman 2011 Spring
- Argues that humanity can be seen as a case of mistaken identity
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Junkware Thierry Bardini 2010 Fall
- The essential junkiness of our culture and biology
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Intangible Materialism The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language Ronald Schleifer 2009 Spring
- Brings together the humanities and sciences to redefine materialism for a new age
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Embodied Victorian Literature and the Senses William A. Cohen 2008 Fall
- Making sense of the body in Victorian literature
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Dorsality Thinking Back through Technology and Politics David Wills 2008 Spring
- An ambitious investigation of what lurks behind our humanity and our technology
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Bíos Biopolitics and Philosophy Roberto Esposito 2008 Spring
- A significant political theorist advances the discussion of biopolitics
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The Poetics of DNA Judith Roof 2007 Spring
- Reveals the ideological effects of DNA metaphors and stories
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The Scar of Visibility Medical Performances and Contemporary Art Petra Kuppers 2006 Fall
- Grapples with the limits of medicine and the mysteries of human bodies in contemporary art and culture
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Politics of Touch Sense, Movement, Sovereignty Erin Manning 2006 Fall
- Detects the political event that occurs whenever two people touch
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Monstrosities Bodies and British Romanticism Paul Youngquist 2003 Fall
- A surprising evaluation of the role of the physical body in the construction of British identity
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Wetwares Experiments in Postvital Living Richard Doyle 2003 Spring
- A dizzying tour of the ways technologies, both real and imagined, can transform humanity
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Identity/Difference Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox William E. Connolly 2002 Fall
- A new edition of this classic work on the idea of difference.
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Neuropolitics Thinking, Culture, Speed William E. Connolly 2002 Fall
- A surprising exploration of connections between culture, neuroscience, and our experience of time.
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Metamorphoses of the Body José Gil 1998 Spring
- Explores the relationship between power and the body.
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Screening the Body Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture Lisa Cartwright 1995 Spring
- Traces the fascinating history of scientific film during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and shows that early experiments with cinema are important precedents of contemporary medical techniques such as ultrasound. Lisa Cartwright brings to light eccentric projects in the history of science and medicine, such as Thomas Edison's sensational attempt to image the brain with X rays before a public audience, and the efforts of doctors to use the motion picture camera to capture movements of the body, from the virtually imperceptible flow of blood to epileptic seizures.