University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage
An Enlightenment Problematic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Tony C. Brown examines “the inescapable yet infinitely troubling figure of the not-quite-nothing” in Enlightenment attempts to think about the aesthetic and the savage. The various texts Brown considers—including the writings of Addison, Rousseau, Kant, and Defoe—turn to exotic figures in order...
Star Wars after Lucas
A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars for a new age
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away—way back in the twenty-first century’s first decade—Star Wars seemed finished. Then in 2012 George Lucas shocked the entertainment world by selling the franchise,...
Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast
A Multispecies Impression
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In what senses do animals, plants, and minerals “write”? How does their “writing” mark our livesour past, present, and future? Addressing such questions with an exhilarating blend of creative flair and theoretical depth, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast traces how the lives of, yes, sheep, oranges,...
A Curriculum of Fear
Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Welcome to Milton High School, where fear is a teacher’s best tool and every student is a soldier in the war on terror. A struggling public school outside the nation’s capital, Milton sat squarely at the center of two trends: growing fear of resurgent terrorism and mounting pressure to run schools...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Once largely ignored, the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead has assumed a new prominence in contemporary theory across the humanities and social sciences. Philosophers and artists, literary critics and social theorists, anthropologists and computer scientists have all embraced Whitehead’s...
Hybrid Child
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
A classic of Japanese speculative fiction that blurs the line between consumption and creation when a cyborg assumes the form and spirit of a murdered child
Until he escaped, he had been called “Sample B #3,” but he had never liked this name. That would surprise them—that he could feel...
Made to Hear
Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter’s school is plummeting: “The majority of parents want their kids to talk.” Some parents, however, feel very differently, because “curing” deafness with cochlear implants...
Dead Labor
Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
From a 2013 Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed fifteen people and injured 252 to a 2017 chemical disaster in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, we are confronted all too often with...
Pictures of Longing
Photography and the Norwegian-American Migration
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Haunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experience
Between 1836 and 1915, in what has been called history’s largest population migration, more than 750,000 Norwegians emigrated to North America....
Total Liberation
The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF’s communiqué on the action went beyond the radical group’s customary brief....
Constructing Imperial Berlin
Photography and the Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image—and one another—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city that once visually epitomized a divided Europe has thrived in the international spotlight as an image of reunified...
by Johannes V. Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Taking place during the first half of the sixteenth century, The Fall of the King tells the story of dreamy, slacking student Mikkel Thøgersen and the entanglements that ultimately bring him into service as a mercenary under King Christian II of Denmark. Moving from the Danish countryside to Stockholm...
by John Protevi
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This book takes a look at the formation, and edges, of states: their breakdowns and attempts to repair them, and their encounters with non-state peoples. It draws upon anthropology, political philosophy, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, child developmental psychology, and other fields to look...
Chromographia
American Literature and the Modernization of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930
Chromographia tells the story of how color became modern and how literature, by engaging with modern color, became modernist. From the vivid pictures in children’s books to the bold hues of abstract painting, from...