Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
In Search of a New Image of Thought
Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Gregg Lambert demonstrates that since the publication of Proust and Signs in 1964 Gilles Deleuze’s search for a new means of philosophical expression became a central theme of all of his oeuvre, including those written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. Lambert, like Deleuze, calls this “the image...
by Daniel Punday
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This book examines the common metaphor that equates computing and writing, tracing it from the naming of devices (“notebook” computers) through the design of user interfaces (the “desktop”) to how we describe the work of programmers (“writing” code). Computing as Writing ponders both the...
Asking the Audience
Participatory Art in 1980s New York
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The 1980s was a critical decade in shaping today’s art production. While newly visible work concerned with power and identity hinted at a shift toward multiculturalism, the ‘80s were also a time of social conservatism that resulted in substantial changes in arts funding. In Asking the Audience, Adair...
Postcolonial Biology
Psyche and Flesh after Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Although the body has been a vast subject for postcolonial studies, few theorists have attempted to go beyond the simple mixing of races in examining the impact of colonialism on the colonized body. However, as Deepika Bahri argues, it is essential to see the postcolonial body in a variety of forms:...
Arranging Marriage
Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context
Arranged marriage is an institution of global fascination—an object of curiosity, revulsion, outrage, and even envy. Marian Aguiar provides the first sustained analysis of arranged marriage...
Farm Worker Futurism
Speculative Technologies of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
When we think of literature and film about farm workers, The Grapes of Wrath may come to mind, but Farm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology, especially new media, has in fact had much more to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers—Mexican migrants in particular—in...
Like Clockwork
Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years of the twenty-first century, its influence and prominence increasing ever since. From its Victorian and literary roots to film and television, video games, music, and even fashion, this subgenre of science...
Language, Madness, and Desire
On Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually...
by Martha Schoolman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In...
Eugenic Feminism
Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on women’s biological ability to “reproduce the nation” they are participating in a eugenic project—sanctioning reproduction by some and prohibiting it by others. Employing a wide range of sources from the United...
Neuropolitics
Thinking, Culture, Speed
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2002
Why would a political theorist venture into the nexus between neuroscience and film? According to William Connolly—whose new book is itself an eloquent answer—the combination exposes the ubiquitous role that technique plays in thinking, ethics, and politics. By taking up recent research in neuroscience...
Debating the End of History
The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long...
Fuel
A Speculative Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Fuel is an idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined, historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film, and scientific treatises—most produced long before “climate change” was in circulation—Fuel argues for a distinction between energy (a...
Security in the Bubble
Navigating Crime in Urban South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Focusing on the South African city of Durban, Security in the Bubble looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its most brutal, postapartheid South African cities...