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99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto Brian Massumi 2018 Fall: A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms
Outsider Theory Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas Jonathan P. Eburne 2018 Fall: A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies
Heidegger Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics Michael Marder 2018 Fall: Understanding the political and ecological implications of Heidegger’s work without ignoring his noxious public engagements
Pattern Discrimination Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer and Hito Steyerl 2019 Spring: How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?
The Experimental Side of Modeling Isabelle F. Peschard and Bas C. van Fraassen, Editors 2018 Fall: An innovative, multifaceted approach to scientific experiments as designed by and shaped through interaction with the modeling process
A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities John J. Moriarty 2018 Fall: An illustrated guide to the natural habitats and rich diversity of wildlife in the greater Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area
Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall: The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
Scenarios II Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Fata Morgana; Heart of Glass Werner Herzog 2018 Fall: The second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable films
The Great Minnesota Cookie Book Award-Winning Recipes from the Star Tribune’s Holiday Cookie Contest Lee Svitak Dean and Rick Nelson 2018 Fall: Eighty delicious, imaginative recipes from the Star Tribune’s beloved annual cookie contest, with mouth-watering pictures and bakers’ stories
Hush Hush, Forest Mary Casanova 2018 Fall: Lyrical words and elegant woodcuts capture the quiet beauty of the forest as day fades to night and autumn gives way to the North Woods winter
The Eye of War Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone Antoine Bousquet 2018 Fall: How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present
Before the Law The Complete Text of Préjugés Jacques Derrida 2018 Fall: Thinking judgment in relation to the work of Jean-François Lyotard
The Book of One Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria Charles Godfrey Leland 2018 Fall: Reviving a lost classic of American fairy–tale literature
Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall: An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
The Sound of Things to Come An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film Trace Reddell 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema
The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall: Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
Enduring Images A Future History of New Left Cinema Morgan Adamson 2018 Fall: An integrated look at the political films of the 1960s and ’70s and how the New Left transformed cinema
Biology in the Grid Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life Phillip Thurtle 2018 Fall: How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms
Herlands Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States Keridwen N. Luis 2018 Fall: How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality
Conversations in Maine A New Edition Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, Freddy Paine and Lyman Paine 2018 Fall: Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in print
Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
Metropolitan Dreams The Scandalous Rise and Stunning Fall of a Minneapolis Masterpiece Larry Millett 2018 Fall: The story of one of Minnesota’s most famous and most mourned buildings, set against the history of downtown Minneapolis
The Right to Be Out Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools, Second Edition Stuart Biegel 2018 Fall: An updated edition of this measured, practical, and timely guide to LGBT rights and issues for educators and school officials
The Alphonso Lingis Reader Alphonso Lingis Tom Sparrow, Editor 2018 Fall: A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy
Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall: Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
Internet Daemons Digital Communications Possessed Fenwick McKelvey 2018 Fall: A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight
Torn in Two The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man’s Survival on the Open Sea Michael Schumacher 2018 Fall: A gripping tale of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history and of remarkable survival against all odds
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring: Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
Breathtaking Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner 2018 Fall: People around the world are struggling to breathe. How do we care for asthma across environments that are increasingly unbreathable?
The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance Kenneth J. Saltman 2018 Fall: How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance
Gringolandia Lifestyle Migration under Late Capitalism Matthew Hayes 2018 Fall: A telling look at today’s “reverse” migration of white, middle-class expats from north to south, through the lens of one South American city
Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade Timothy Cochrane 2018 Fall: The journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior’s North Shore
None of This Is Normal The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Benjamin J. Robertson 2018 Fall: How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own
Graziella A Novel Alphonse de Lamartine 2018 Fall: In its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchman’s erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the Romantic period
Pictures of Longing Photography and the Norwegian–American Migration Sigrid Lien 2018 Fall: Haunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experience
Everywhere and Nowhere Anonymity and Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain Mark Vareschi 2018 Fall: A fascinating analysis of anonymous publication centuries before the digital age
Picturing the Postcard A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century Monica Cure 2018 Fall: The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium
Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor 2018 Fall: Observations from the lives of African American domestic workers—back in print
The Poem Electric Technology and the American Lyric Seth Perlow 2018 Fall: An enlightening examination of the relationship between poetry and the information technologies increasingly used to read and write it
Another Mother Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism Cesare Casarino and Andrea Righi, Editors 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima
Chromographia American Literature and the Modernization of Color Nicholas Gaskill 2018 Fall: The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930
Dialogues on the Human Ape Laurent Dubreuil and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh 2018 Fall: A primatologist and a humanist together explore the meaning of being a “human animal”
Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall: A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture
DIA-LOGOS Ramon Llull's Method of Thought and Artistic Practice Amador Vega, Peter Weibel and Siegfried Zielinski, Editors 2018 Fall: The life and work of the outstanding Catalan-Majorcan philosopher, logician, and mystic Ramon Llull continues to fascinate thinkers, artists, and scholars worldwide
Graphic Assembly Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s Craig Buckley 2018 Fall: An innovative look at the contribution of montage to twentieth-century architecture
Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall: A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
Constructing Imperial Berlin Photography and the Metropolis Miriam Paeslack 2018 Fall: How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image—and one another—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Back to the Sandbox Art and Radical Pedagogy Jaroslav Anděl, Editor 2019 Spring: An international group of artists and scholars reflects on the nature and significance of education in contemporary society, introducing new perspectives on learning and creativity
The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring: A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
The Tomb of the Artisan God On Plato’s Timaeus Serge Margel 2019 Spring: A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and its engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original French edition profoundly influenced Derrida