Forerunners: Ideas First

Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

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Trans Care A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care

Cruelty as Citizenship How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives?

Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable

Wageless Life A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism Drawing up alternate ways to “make a living” beyond capitalism

Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power

LatinX Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States

Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it

Medical Technics A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology

Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible

How to Do Things with Sensors An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies

Burgers in Blackface Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding

Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics

Break Up the Anthropocene Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch

The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance

Learning versus the Common Core An open challenge to Common Core’s drive for uniformity

Edges of the State Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature

Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?

A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene

A Third University Is Possible Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine

The Neocolonialism of the Global Village Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan

Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations

The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes

Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings

Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities

Dark Deleuze Rekindling Deleuze’s opposition to what is intolerable about this world

UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning

How Noise Matters to Finance The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise

Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy

The Celebrity Persona Pandemic Making sense of public identities, online and offline

Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics Reckoning the unsettled relationship between aesthetics and politics

The Politics of Bitcoin Software as Right-Wing Extremism The first comprehensive account of Bitcoin’s underlying right-wing politics

Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers Past as Prologue A fresh, important intervention into understanding our post-9/11 world

The Uberfication of the University The contemporary university’s implications for the future organization of labor

Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age Rethinking the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology

Cinema without Reflection Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift Excavates a theory of cinema in Derrida’s writing on love, narcissism, echopoiesis, and fluidity

Mandela’s Dark Years A Political Theory of Dreaming Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life

Martin Heidegger Saved My Life Could there be a bigger paradox than the black man using Martin Heidegger to repel the white woman's racism?

The Geek’s Chihuahua Living with Apple The evolution and meaning of our love affair with Apple and its devices

Deep Mapping the Media City Examines the material spaces in which our networks entangle themselves

No Speed Limit Three Essays on Accelerationism Proposes a vision of survival and flourishing in the face of economic and environmental catastrophe

Mediators Aesthetics, Politics, and the City Toward a theory of the city at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics

The Anthrobscene Critiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era

Aesop’s Anthropology A Multispecies Approach What can we learn about culture from other species?

The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender A complex articulation of the ways blackness and nonnormative gender intersect—and a deeper understanding of how subjectivities are formed

Grounded Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here

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