University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Nuclear Desire
Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Since its enactment in 1970, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has become one node of a massive, sprawling, multibillion-dollar regime that is considered essential to slowing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons technology. However, according to Shampa Biswas, these well-intentioned...
Information Fantasies
Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses
Although the scale of the information economy and the impact of digital media on social life in China today could pale that of any other country, the story of their emergence in the post-Mao sociopolitical...
New Lines
Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
New Lines takes the pulse of a society increasingly drawn to the power of the digital map, examining the conceptual and technical developments of the field of geographic information science as this work is refracted through a pervasive digital culture. Matthew W. Wilson draws together archival research...
The Art of Protest
Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
The Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction...
The Platform Economy
How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it
Platforms are everywhere. From social media to chat, streaming, credit cards, and even bookstores, it seems like almost everything can be described as a platform. In The Platform Economy, Marc Steinberg...
by Bruce Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Neocybernetics and Narrative opens a new chapter in Bruce Clarke’s project of rethinking narrative and media through systems theory. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects, media, significations, and the social, this study demonstrates second-order systems theory’s potential to provide fresh...
Stone
An Ecology of the Inhuman
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the “really real”: blunt factuality, nature’s curt rebuke. Yet, medieval writers knew that stones drop with fire from the sky, emerge through the subterranean...
Elements of a Philosophy of Technology
On the Evolutionary History of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
Ernst Kapp was a foundational scholar in the fields of media theory and philosophy of technology. His 1877 Elements of a Philosophy of Technology is a visionary study of...
Heidegger
Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Understanding the political and ecological implications of Heidegger’s work without ignoring his noxious public engagements
The most controversial philosopher of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger has influenced generations of intellectuals even as his involvement with Nazism and blatant...
Our Own Image
A Story of a Maori Filmmaker
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Acclaimed Maori filmmaker Barry Barclay’s Our Own Image relates the experiences of making his documentaries and his critically acclaimed feature-length film Ngati (1987), widely credited as the first fiction feature by a member of an indigenous community. Barclay details his views on the process of...
Key Change
New Musicals for Young Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Key Change: New Musicals for Young Audiences presents four groundbreaking musicals developed by Children’s Theatre Company, widely regarded as the leading theatre of its kind in North America. These works embody singular styles and sounds, yet all represent the robust spirit of unique people finding...
Ecology without Culture
Aesthetics for a Toxic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Cultures have long defined themselves through biological elements to prove their strength and longevity, from cherry blossoms in Japan to amber waves of grain in the United States. In Ecology without Culture, Christine L. Marran introduces the concept of biotropes—material and semiotic figures that...
The Modernist Corpse
Posthumanism and the Posthumous
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who—and what—counts as human, while offering bold insights into the modernist project
Too often regarded as the macabre endpoint of life, the corpse is rarely discussed and largely kept out of the public eye. In...
by Alphonso Lingis
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy
Alphonso Lingis is arguably the most intriguing American philosopher of the past fifty years—a scholar of transience, someone who has visited and revisited more than...