University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Lifeblood
Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don’t we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual culprits—Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists of empire—Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Those practices, Matthew...
The Road to Botany Bay
An Exploration of Landscape and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
The Road to Botany Bay, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, Paul...
by Stig Dagerman
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
In the summer of 1946, while secluded in August Strindberg’s small cabin in the Stockholm archipelago, Stig Dagerman wrote Island of the Doomed. This novel was unlike any other yet seen in Sweden and would establish him as the country’s brightest literary star. To this day it is a singular work of...
Transhumanism
Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global consciousness. However, this insight is dismissed as a naive and controversial reframing of posthumanist thought, having also been vilified as “the most dangerous...
Unlearning the City
Infrastructure in a New Optical Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital component of urban life that is lived on the streets of cities and towns. Swati Chattopadhyay has written a nuanced argument for a new vocabulary of the city in...
Human Programming
Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Do our ways of talking about contemporary terrorism have a history in the science, technology, and culture of the Cold War? Human Programming explores this history in a groundbreaking work that draws connections across decades and throughout American culture, high and low. Scott Selisker argues that...
More Than Shelter
Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the popular imagination, public housing tenants are considered, at best, victims of intractable poverty and, at worst, criminals. More Than Shelter makes clear that such limited perspectives do not capture the rich reality of tenants’ active engagement in shaping public housing into communities....
Multiple Autisms
Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Is there a gene for autism? Despite a billion-dollar, twenty-year effort to find out—and the more elusive the answer, the greater the search seems to become—no single autism gene has been identified. In Multiple Autisms, Jennifer S. Singh sets out to discover how autism emerged as a genetic disorder...
Vikings in the Attic
In Search of Nordic America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Growing up with Swedish and Norwegian grandparents with a dash of Danish thrown in for balance, Eric Dregni thought Scandinavians were perfectly normal. Who doesn’t enjoy a good, healthy salad (Jell-O packed with canned fruit, colored marshmallows, and pretzels) or perhaps some cod soaked in drain...
Rifftide
The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Finalist for Best Jazz Book of the Year Award from the Jazz Journalists AssociationThe things that I have, I’ll give to you. This is my legacy with you, Albert. This is my last hoo-rah. So begins the autobiography of Jonathan David Samuel Jones—or as the world better knows him, Papa Jo Jones....
Scenarios
Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
I do not follow ideas, I stumble into stories or into people; and I know that this is so big, I have to make a film. Very often, films come like uninvited guests, like burglars in the middle of the night. They are in your kitchen; something is stirring, you wake up at 3 a.m. and all of a sudden they...
Scenarios II
Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Fata Morgana; Heart of Glass
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
The second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable films
On the first day of editing Fata Morgana, Werner Herzog recalls, his editor said: “With this kind of material we have to pretend to invent cinema.” And this, Herzog says, is what he tries to do...
Indifference to Difference
On Queer Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou’s suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identitarian specificity, one might consider the politics and practice of being indifferent to difference. Such a politics would be based on the superabundance of desire and its inability...
Holidays in the Danger Zone
Entanglements of War and Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Holidays in the Danger Zone exposes the mundane and everyday interactions between two seemingly opposed worlds: warfare and tourism. Debbie Lisle shows how a tourist sensibility shapes the behavior of soldiers in war—especially the experiences of Western military forces in “exotic” settings. This...