4S: Philosophy and Theory
Web sale for those interested in science and technology studies and/or attendees of the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below qualify for 40% off and free domestic shipping using code MN4S23. Code expires December 15, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DIGITAL CULTURE // ETHNOGRAPHY
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GEOGRAPHY
LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM // DISABILITY STUDIES
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lively Cities Reconfiguring Urban Ecology Maan Barua 2023 Spring
- A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring
- How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall
- A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
- Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall
- What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Prosthesis David Wills 2021 Spring
- An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects
- Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring
- How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
- On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring
- An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
- Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring
- A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience
- Design Technics Archaeologies of Architectural Practice Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, Editors 2019 Fall
- Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design