Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
Noise Channels
Glitch and Error in Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures, he traces a resistance to the heritage...
The Truth Is Always Grey
A History of Modernist Painting
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Changing how we look at and think about the color grey
Why did many of the twentieth century’s best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Brice...
November's Fury
The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings became more and more dire. Weather forecasting was in its infancy, however, and radio communication...
Barry Le Va
The Aesthetic Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Of the conceptual artists who began their careers in the 1960s and 1970s—Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, and Mel Bochner among them—Barry Le Va may be the most elusive. As this first study of his work reveals, his rigorously planned art was instigated to mask its creator’s intentions...
If Memory Serves
Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher...
So Much to Be Done
The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
“What kind of cancer is it?” was the first question Barbara Brenner asked her doctor after hearing that the lump in her breast was malignant. His answer: “You don't need to know that.” Wrong response. Brenner, who was already an activist, made knowing her business and spreading knowledge her...
by Claire Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography—so good at representing a building’s lines and planes—a necessary way to promote their practices. It soon became apparent, however, that photography did more than reproduce what it depicted. It altered both subject and reception,...
John Vassos
Industrial Design for Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
What should a television look like? How should a dial on a radio feel to the touch? These were questions John Vassos asked when the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) asked him to design the first mass-produced television receiver, the TRK-12, which had its spectacular premier at the 1939 New York World’s...
Creating the Witness
Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not only puts players in the position of a struggling...
Women Write Iran
Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels—and finds that they are tied together by the experience...
by Kawamata Chiaki
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Japan, 1980s: A special police squad is tracking down one of the “afflicted” to recover the “stuff.” Although the operation seems like a drug bust, the “stuff” is actually some kind of text. Death Sentences—a work of science fiction that shares its conceit with the major motion picture...
by Hiroki Azuma, Sait Tamaki
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom...
Diaboliques
Six Tales of Decadence
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
With its six trenchant tales of perverse love, Diaboliques proved so scandalous on its original appearance in 1874 that it was declared a danger to public morality and seized on the grounds of blasphemy and obscenity. More shocking in our day is how little known this masterpiece of French decadent fiction...
Mechademia 1
Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2006
After decades in which American popular culture dominated global media and markets, Japanese popular culture—primarily manga and anime, but also toys, card and video games, and fashion—has exploded into a worldwide phenomenon. From Pokémon and the Power Rangers to Paranoia Agent and Princess Mononoke,...