Film and Media

The Perversity of Things Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction Hugo Gernsback 2016 Fall

The founder of science fiction and his other inventions

Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits Jim Walsh 2016 Fall

Thirty years of pop, funk, rock and roll, up close and personal, from veteran Twin Cities journalist Jim Walsh

The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck, Editors 2016 Fall

An unprecedented transdisciplinary call to reassess the meaning of participation in the digital age

Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall

On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema

Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall

On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema

Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers Past as Prologue Sohail Daulatzai 2016 Fall

A fresh, important intervention into understanding our post-9/11 world

Murray Talks Music Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 2016 Spring

Rare and previously unpublished work from an influential critic, cultural theorist, and champion of jazz

Cinema without Reflection Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift Akira Mizuta Lippit 2016 Spring

Excavates a theory of cinema in Derrida’s writing on love, narcissism, echopoiesis, and fluidity

Internet Spaceships Are Serious Business An EVE Online Reader Marcus Carter, Kelly Bergstrom and Darryl Woodford, Editors 2016 Spring

The first sustained analysis of the hugely successful and complex MMOG, EVE Online

Speculative Blackness The Future of Race in Science Fiction André M. Carrington 2016 Spring

Examines race through fanzines, Star Trek, comic books, and Harry Potter

On the Existence of Digital Objects Yuk Hui 2016 Spring

How and why digital objects are best theorized through relations

Ambient Media Japanese Atmospheres of Self Paul Roquet 2016 Spring

How atmospheric media have come to shape urban Japan

Computing as Writing Daniel Punday 2015 Fall

If we consider e-book authors to be writers, should we think of e-book programmers as writers, too?

Dead Matter The Meaning of Iconic Corpses Margaret Schwartz 2015 Fall

A corpse is much more than a dead body

Illegal Literature Toward a Disruptive Creativity David S. Roh 2015 Fall

“Illegal” publications have real value for society and culture

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