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Distracted A Philosophy of Cars and Phones Robert Rosenberger 2024 Spring: Applying insights from philosophy and cognitive science to address the urgent issue of smartphone-induced distracted driving
Microbial Resolution Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes Gloria Chan-Sook Kim 2024 Spring: Why the global health project to avert emerging microbes continually fails
Cultivating Livability Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru Camille Frazier 2024 Spring: What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation
American Disgust Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2024 Spring: Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America
Caring for Life A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene Kelly Dombroski 2024 Spring: The transformational possibilities of everyday hygiene and care practices
Solar Adobe Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture Albert Narath 2024 Spring: How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential solution to the political and environmental crises of the 1970s
Revenant Ecologies Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation Audra Mitchell 2023 Fall: Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinction
Naked Fieldnotes A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing Denielle Elliott and Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Editors 2023 Fall: Creative and diverse approaches to ethnographic knowledge production and writing
From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics William C. Bausman, Janella K. Baxter and Oliver M. Lean, Editors 2023 Fall: How analyzing scientific practices can alter debates on the relationship between science and reality
Care without Pathology How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine Christoph Hanssmann 2023 Fall: Examining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape
Archiving Medical Violence Consent and the Carceral State Christopher Perreira 2023 Fall: A major new reading of a U.S. public health system shaped by fraught perceptions of culture, race, and criminality
The Affect Lab The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion Grant Bollmer 2023 Fall: Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it
Nietzsche’s Posthumanism Edgar Landgraf 2023 Fall: A timely and trenchant commentary on the centrality of Nietzsche’s thought for our time
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2023 Spring: A cutting-edge view of the digital humanities at a time of global pandemic, catastrophe, and uncertainty
Operational Images From the Visual to the Invisual Jussi Parikka 2023 Spring: An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics
Digital Energetics Anne Pasek, Cindy Kaiying Lin, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper and Jordan B. Kinder 2023 Spring: Exploring the connections between energy and media—and what those connections mean for our current moment
Lively Cities Reconfiguring Urban Ecology Maan Barua 2023 Spring: A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban
Gut Anthro An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes Amber Benezra 2023 Spring: A fascinating ethnography of microbes that opens up new spaces for anthropological inquiry
The Birth of Computer Vision James E. Dobson 2023 Spring: A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies
Health Colonialism Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers Shiloh R. Krupar 2023 Spring: The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid
Making Sense in Common A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse Isabelle Stengers 2023 Spring: A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy
The Prison House of the Circuit Politics of Control from Analog to Digital Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena and Joshua Reeves 2022 Fall: Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?
Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Rachel Cypher, Editors 2022 Fall: A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
The Lichen Museum A. Laurie Palmer 2023 Spring: A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations
A Theory of Assembly From Museums to Memes Kyle Parry 2022 Fall: A vital reckoning with how we understand the basic categories of cultural expression in the digital era
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
Imagination and Invention Gilbert Simondon 2022 Fall: A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images
Citizens of Worlds Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle Jennifer Gabrys 2022 Fall: An unparalleled how-to guide to citizen-sensing practices that monitor air pollution
Endless Intervals Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 Jeffrey West Kirkwood 2022 Fall: Revealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the human
Arte Programmata Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy Lindsay Caplan 2022 Fall: Tracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde’s pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control
Opioid Reckoning Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State Amy C. Sullivan 2022 Fall: Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic
Architecture of Life Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Alla Vronskaya 2022 Spring: Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences
Sensory Futures Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India Michele Ilana Friedner 2022 Spring: Revealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical markets
Technopharmacology Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia, Susanna Paasonen and Ravi Sundaram 2022 Spring: Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals
Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Marika Cifor 2022 Spring: Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive
Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2022 Spring: The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism
Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring: How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring: An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging
Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring: How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles
The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring: A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
Algorithms of Education How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar and P. Taylor Webb 2022 Spring: A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy
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
Global Debates in the Digital Humanities Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paola Ricaurte, Editors 2022 Spring: A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities
The Owls Are Not What They Seem Artist as Ethologist Arnaud Gerspacher 2022 Fall: Toward a posthumanist art and ethology
Solarities Seeking Energy Justice After Oil Collective Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors 2022 Fall: A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation
The Lab Book Situated Practices in Media Studies Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka 2021 Fall: An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life
What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilém Flusser 2022 Spring: An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter
Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology Mick Smith and Jason Young 2022 Fall: Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency
Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2021 Fall: More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands
A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal Andrew Culp 2022 Spring: A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it
Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring: Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization
People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall: An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall: How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America
Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall: Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor
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
Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall: A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall: A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall: A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster
Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis David Hugill 2021 Fall: Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis
Commodities of Care The Business of HIV Testing in China Elsa L. Fan 2021 Fall: How global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve
How We Became Sensorimotor Movement, Measurement, Sensation Mark Paterson 2021 Fall: An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body’s inner senses
Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall: What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall: How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be
Raising Ollie How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know Tom Rademacher 2021 Fall: The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child
Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall: A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it
Profit over Privacy How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet Matthew Crain 2021 Fall: A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet
Tolerance and Risk How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims Mitra Rastegar 2021 Fall: How apparently positive representations in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population
Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall: An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century
Visibility Interrupted Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming Carly Thomsen 2021 Fall: A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest
The Global Shelter Imaginary IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher 2021 Fall: Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed
The Dance of the Arabian Babbler Birth of an Ethological Theory Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring: A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory
The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value Seb Franklin 2021 Spring: Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism
Batman Saves the Congo How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey 2021 Spring: How celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space
The Filing Cabinet A Vertical History of Information Craig Robertson 2021 Spring: The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information
Watershed Attending to Body and Earth in Distress Ranae Lenor Hanson 2021 Spring: A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem
Really Fake Alexandra Juhasz, Ganaele Langlois and Nishant Shah 2020 Fall: More important than flagging things “really fake” is to understand why they are dismissed as fake
Singularity Politics and Poetics Samuel Weber 2021 Spring: An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature
Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring: A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States
Why We Lost the Sex Wars Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era Lorna N. Bracewell 2021 Spring: Reexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s—the rivalries and the remarkable alliances
The Dispossessed Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor Daniel Bensaïd 2021 Spring: Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization
Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin, Editors 2020 Fall: Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print
Sweetness in the Blood Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes James Doucet-Battle 2021 Spring: A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
The Other Side of the Digital The Sacrificial Economy of New Media Andrea Righi 2021 Spring: A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity
Nuclear Suburbs Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance Patrick Vitale 2021 Spring: From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War
Undoing Networks Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst and Lea P. Zierott 2020 Fall: Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting
Discomfort Food The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art Marni Reva Kessler 2021 Spring: An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke
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
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
Prosthesis David Wills 2021 Spring: An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects
Breathing Race into the Machine The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Lundy Braun 2021 Spring: How race became embedded in a medical instrument
Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring: How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2021 Spring: How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism
The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall: A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall: An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city
Shaving the Beasts Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain John Hartigan Jr. 2020 Fall: A vivid first-person study of a notorious equine ritual—from the perspective of the wild horses who are its targets
Drawing the Sea Near Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa C. Anne Claus 2020 Fall: How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life
The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall: Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
Unraveling Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2020 Fall: Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human
Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall: A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
The Death of Asylum Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago Alison Mountz 2020 Spring: Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations
Acid Revival The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy Danielle Giffort 2020 Fall: A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science
Action at a Distance John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger and Christina Vagt 2020 Fall: How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?