University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Subprime Health
Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
From race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions and marketing, to race-targeted medical “hot spotting” and the Affordable Care Act, to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime Health is a timely examination of race-based medicine as it intersects with the concept of debt. The contributors to...
Philosophy after Friendship
Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The friend, the enemy, the stranger, the refugee or deportee, and the survivor. In singular and provocative fashion, Gregg Lambert’s Philosophy after Friendship introduces us to the key social personae that have populated modern political philosophy. Drawing on the philosophies of Deleuze and Derrida,...
by Michael Haworth
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A bold philosophical investigation into technology and the limits of the human
A daring, original work of philosophical speculation, Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude mounts a sustained investigation into the possibility that human beings may technologically overcome the transcendental...
Creaturely Love
How Desire Makes Us More and Less Than Human
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
To our modern ears the word “creature” has wild, musky, even monstrous, connotations. And yet the terms “creaturely” and “love,” taken together, have traditionally been associated with theological debates around the enigmatic affection between God and His key creation, Man. In Creaturely...
Inanimation
Theories of Inorganic Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Inanimation is the third book by author David Wills to analyze the technology of the human. In Prosthesis, Wills traced our human attachment to external objects back to a necessity within the body itself. In Dorsality, he explored how technology is understood to function behind or before the human....
In Search of a New Image of Thought
Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Gregg Lambert demonstrates that since the publication of Proust and Signs in 1964 Gilles Deleuze’s search for a new means of philosophical expression became a central theme of all of his oeuvre, including those written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. Lambert, like Deleuze, calls this “the image...
by Daniel Punday
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This book examines the common metaphor that equates computing and writing, tracing it from the naming of devices (“notebook” computers) through the design of user interfaces (the “desktop”) to how we describe the work of programmers (“writing” code). Computing as Writing ponders both the...
Asking the Audience
Participatory Art in 1980s New York
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The 1980s was a critical decade in shaping today’s art production. While newly visible work concerned with power and identity hinted at a shift toward multiculturalism, the ‘80s were also a time of social conservatism that resulted in substantial changes in arts funding. In Asking the Audience, Adair...
Postcolonial Biology
Psyche and Flesh after Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Although the body has been a vast subject for postcolonial studies, few theorists have attempted to go beyond the simple mixing of races in examining the impact of colonialism on the colonized body. However, as Deepika Bahri argues, it is essential to see the postcolonial body in a variety of forms:...
Arranging Marriage
Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context
Arranged marriage is an institution of global fascination—an object of curiosity, revulsion, outrage, and even envy. Marian Aguiar provides the first sustained analysis of arranged marriage...
Farm Worker Futurism
Speculative Technologies of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
When we think of literature and film about farm workers, The Grapes of Wrath may come to mind, but Farm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology, especially new media, has in fact had much more to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers—Mexican migrants in particular—in...
Language, Madness, and Desire
On Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually...
by Martha Schoolman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In...
Eugenic Feminism
Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on women’s biological ability to “reproduce the nation” they are participating in a eugenic project—sanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others. Employing a wide range of sources from the United...