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Anthropocene Poetics Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction David Farrier 2019 Spring

How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time

A Contest without Winners How Students Experience Competitive School Choice Kate Phillippo 2019 Spring

Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students’ eyes

Cyclescapes of the Unequal City Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development John G. Stehlin 2019 Spring

A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United States

Fighting for NOW Diversity and Discord in the National Organization for Women Kelsy Kretschmer 2019 Spring

An unparalleled exploration of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the present—and its future

Dead Labor Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death James Tyner 2019 Spring

A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century

Glissant and the Middle Passage Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss John E. Drabinski 2019 Spring

A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness

Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring

An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé

Bad Film Histories Ethnography and the Early Archive Katherine Groo 2019 Spring

A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives

The Technique of Thought Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism Ian James 2019 Spring

Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality

Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring

An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe

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

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring

The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether

Beyond the Meme Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution Alan C. Love and William C. Wimsatt, Editors 2019 Spring

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time

Anti-Electra The Radical Totem of the Girl Elisabeth von Samsonow 2019 Spring

A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex”

The ABC of It Why Children’s Books Matter Leonard S. Marcus 2019 Spring

Distributed for the University of Minnesota Libraries, Kerlan Collection

In the Night of Memory A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2020 Fall

Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation

Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) A Novel Lorna Landvik 2020 Fall

A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world

Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2019 Spring

A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means

Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring

From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life

Whatever Normal Is Jane St. Anthony 2019 Spring

In the fourth volume of a series set in Minneapolis in the 1960s, three friends navigate relationships and new questions about love and identity

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