Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
Laruelle
Against the Digital
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Laruelle is one of the first books in English to undertake in an extended critical survey of the work of the idiosyncratic French thinker François Laruelle, the promulgator of non-standard philosophy. Laruelle, who was born in 1937, has recently gained widespread recognition, and Alexander R. Galloway...
Flying Funny
My Life without a Net
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Dudley Riggs didn’t have to run away from home to join the circus. Home was the circus. Son of the acclaimed aerial flyers Riggs and Riggs, he made his circus debut as a polar prince parading in a wagon pulled by a polar bear. At the age of five, he graduated to a risqué vaudeville act during the...
Program Earth
Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Sensors are everywhere. Small, flexible, economical, and computationally powerful, they operate ubiquitously in environments. They compile massive amounts of data, including information about air, water, and climate. Never before has such a volume of environmental data been so broadly collected or...
Fiery Cinema
The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or one system of aesthetic code. It was, in Weihong Bao’s term, an affective medium, a distinct notion of the medium as mediating environment with the power...
Illegal Literature
Toward a Disruptive Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
What is the cultural value of illegal works that violate the copyrights of popular fiction? Why do they persist despite clear and stringent intellectual property laws? Drawing on the disciplines of new media, law, and literary studies, Illegal Literature suggests that extralegal works such as fan fiction...
Open Your Eyes
Deaf Studies Talking
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
This groundbreaking volume introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. In Open Your Eyes, leading and emerging scholars, the majority of whom are deaf, consider physical and cultural boundaries...
Sex before Sex
Figuring the Act in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? Sex before Sex makes clear that we cannot simply transfer our contemporary notions of what constitutes a sex act into the past and expect them to be...
Chains of Babylon
The Rise of Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the movement created the category of "Asian American" to join Asians of many ethnicities in racial solidarity. Drawing on the Black Power and antiwar movements, Asian...
Lewd Looks
American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
One of the most fascinating phenomena of 1960s film culture is the emergence of American sexploitation films—salacious indies made on the margins of Hollywood. Hundreds of such films were produced and shown on both urban and small-town screens over the course of the decade. Yet despite their vital...
Agitating Images
Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Following the socialist revolution, a colossal shift in everyday realities began in the 1920s and ’30s in the former Russian empire. Faced with the Siberian North, a vast territory considered culturally and technologically backward by the revolutionary government, the Soviets confidently undertook...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
"Transgender Rights packs a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonetheless succeeds in creating a spectacular, well-researched compendium of the transgender movement." -Law Library Journal
Over the past three...
Matters of Care
Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical...
Improper Life
Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Has biopolitics actually become thanatopolitics, a field of study obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it impossible to deploy affirmatively? If this is true, what can life-minded thinkers put forward as the merits of biopolitical reflection?...
Meeting Place
The Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In this remarkable and often dazzling book, Paul Carter explores the conditions for sociability in a globalized future. He argues that we make many assumptions about communication but overlook barriers to understanding between strangers as well as the importance of improvisation in overcoming these obstacles...