University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Wild Child
Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Exploring how the figure of the “wild child” in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity
In the eighteenth century, Western philosophy positioned the figure of “the child” at the border between untamed nature...
Dead Matter
The Meaning of Iconic Corpses
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Taking as its starting point the significant role of the photograph in modern mourning practices—particularly those surrounding public figures—Dead Matter theorizes the connections between the body and the image by looking at the corpse as a special instance of a body that is simultaneously thing...
Governance Feminism
Notes from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South
Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field brings together nineteen chapters from leading feminist scholars and activists to critically describe and assess contemporary feminist...
Igniting Wonder
Plays for Preschoolers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Young children love to explore their world through drama—characters, dialogue, story arcs, and props are all standard elements of a child’s play. It is no surprise then that professional theatre has long been regarded as a way to support children’s social-emotional, cognitive, and creative development....
by Jane St. Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
In the fourth volume of a series set in Minneapolis in the 1960s, three friends navigate relationships and new questions about love and identity
After three years of high school, Margaret still isn’t any closer to what she wants: to sing and dance on Broadway, to be a model like Twiggy, to...
99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value
A Postcapitalist Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms
How can we begin to envision a postcapitalist economy without first engineering a radically new concept of value? And with a renewed sense of how and what we collectively value, what would the transition...
The Technique of Thought
Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality
The Technique of Thought explores the relationship between philosophy and science as articulated in the work of four contemporary French...
Restaurant Republic
The Rise of Public Dining in Boston
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining. In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such eating alternatives in Boston...
Living on Campus
An Architectural History of the American Dormitory
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
An exploration of the architecture of dormitories that exposes deeply held American beliefs about education, youth, and citizenship
Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual. The residence hall...
Ambient Media
Japanese Atmospheres of Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan, and what it means to use media as a resource for personal mood regulation. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Edited by Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize—and therefore consolidate—a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each...
The Construction of Equality
Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
An industrial city on the outskirts of Stockholm, Södertälje is the global capital of the Syriac Orthodox Christian diaspora, an ethnic and religious minority group fleeing persecution and discrimination in the Middle East. Since the 1960s, this Syriac community has transformed the standardized welfare...
Callous Objects
Designs against the Homeless
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
Callous Objects unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design. Robert Rosenberger examines such commonplace devices as garbage cans, fences, signage, and...
Life, War, Earth
Deleuze and the Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A deep exploration of the many possibilities inherent in linking Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy to contemporary science, John Protevi’s Life, War, Earth demonstrates how Deleuze’s ontology of the virtual, intensive, and actual can enhance our understanding of important issues in cognitive science,...