Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
by Vinciane Despret
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
“You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the Foreword
Is it all...
by Steve Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who directly confront questions of animal...
by Yuk Hui
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today—as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog posts, Facebook events.Yet, despite their ubiquity, the nature of digital objects remains unclear.
On...
The Contest
The 1968 Election and the War for America's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A dramatic, deeply informed account of one of the most consequential elections and periods in American history
1968—rife with riots, assassinations, anti–Vietnam War protests, and realpolitik—was one of the most tumultuous years in the twentieth century, culminating in one of the most...
The Salvager
The Life of Captain Tom Reid on the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
First published in 1958, The Salvager is both a narrative history of Great Lakes shipping disasters of 1880–1950 and the life story of Captain Thomas Reid, who operated one of the region’s largest salvaging companies during that era. The treacherous shoals, unpredictable storms, and sub-zero temperatures...
California Mission Landscapes
Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
“Nothing defines California and our nation’s heritage as significantly or emotionally,” says the California Mission Foundation, “as do the twenty-one missions that were founded along the coast from San Diego to Sonoma.” Indeed, the missions collectively represent the state’s most iconic tourist...
by Donna J. Haraway, Cary Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges—of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location—are...
by Mutsuo Takahashi
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
From one of the foremost poets in contemporary Japan comes this entrancing memoir that traces a boy’s childhood and its intersection with the rise of the Japanese empire and World War II. Originally published in 1970, this translation is the first available in English.In twelve chapters that visit...
Onigamiising
Seasons of an Ojibwe Year
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, “the place of the small portage.” There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for hunting and fishing, for cultivating and gathering,...
A Shadow over Palestine
The Imperial Life of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Upon signing the first U.S. arms agreement with Israel in 1962, John F. Kennedy assured Golda Meir that the United States had “a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East,” comparable only to that of the United States with Britain. After more than five decades such a statement might...
The Perversity of Things
Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction’s annual Hugo Awards...
Mine Towns
Buildings for Workers in Michigan’s Copper Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of America’s first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the region’s vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location—and work long hours in dangerous conditions—companies...
Fifty Years of "The Battle of Algiers"
Past as Prologue
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film that poetically captures Algerian resistance to French colonial occupation, is widely considered one of the greatest political films of all time. With an artistic defiance that matched the boldness of the anticolonial struggles of the time, it was embraced across the...
by Gary Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Even after the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberalism has been able to advance its program of privatization and deregulation. The Uberfication of the University analyzes the emergence of the sharing economy—an economy that has little to do with sharing access to good and services and everything to...