University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Neuropolitics
Thinking, Culture, Speed
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2002
Why would a political theorist venture into the nexus between neuroscience and film? According to William Connolly—whose new book is itself an eloquent answer—the combination exposes the ubiquitous role that technique plays in thinking, ethics, and politics. By taking up recent research in neuroscience...
Debating the End of History
The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long...
Fuel
A Speculative Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Fuel is an idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined, historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film, and scientific treatises—most produced long before “climate change” was in circulation—Fuel argues for a distinction between energy (a...
Security in the Bubble
Navigating Crime in Urban South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Focusing on the South African city of Durban, Security in the Bubble looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its most brutal, postapartheid South African cities...
Whiskey Breakfast
My Swedish Family, My American Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Chicago in the 1920s: Clark Street was the city’s last Swedetown, a narrow corridor of weather-beaten storefronts, coal yards, and taverns running along the north side of the city and the locus of Swedish community life in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. It represented a way...
Digital Shift
The Cultural Logic of Punctuation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Emoticons matter. Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical marks in our lives⎯using them as reading lenses to consider a broad range of textual objects and practices...
The Right to Be Cold
One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-Cloutier traveled only by dog team. Today there are more snow machines than dogs in her...
Shipwreck Modernity
Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down. Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched...
Life
A Modern Invention
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The word “biology” was first used to describe the scientific study of life in 1802, and as Davide Tarizzo demonstrates in his reconstruction of the genealogy of the concept of life, our understanding of what being alive means is an equally recent invention. Focusing on the histories of philosophy,...
by Peter Janich
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker
It is widely agreed that we live in an “information age,” but what exactly is information? This small, seemingly facile question is in fact surprisingly difficult, and it has occupied...
by Georges Didi-Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism
Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber...
Pragmatist Politics
Making the Case for Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
In our current age of cynicism, John McGowan suggests that the time is right to take a fresh look at pragmatism, the philosophy of American democracy. As McGowan shows, pragmatism can be an inspiring alternative to the despair that seems to dominate contemporary American politics. Pragmatist Politics...
by Antonio Negri
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
With Trilogy of Resistance, the political philosopher Antonio Negri extends his intervention in contemporary politics and culture into a new medium: drama. The three plays collected for the first time in this volume dramatize the central concepts of the innovative and influential thought he has articulated...
The Value of Homelessness
Managing Surplus Life in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. The Value of Homelessness, however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will?or ultimately...