University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
The Microbial State
Global Thriving and the Body Politic
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
For three centuries, concepts of the state have been animated by one of the most powerful metaphors in politics: the body politic, a claustrophobic and bounded image of sovereignty. Climate change, neoliberalism, mass migration, and other aspects of the late Anthropocene have increasingly revealed the...
Against Ecological Sovereignty
Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Against Ecological Sovereignty is a passionate defense of radical ecology that speaks directly to current debates concerning the nature, and dangers, of sovereign power. Engaging the work of Bataille, Arendt, Levinas, Nancy, and Agamben, among others, Mick Smith reconnects the political critique of sovereign...
Deconstruction Machines
Writing in the Age of Cyberwar
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A bold new theory of cyberwar argues that militarized hacking is best understood as a form of deconstruction
From shadowy attempts to steal state secrets to the explosive destruction of Iranian centrifuges, cyberwar has been a vital part of statecraft for nearly thirty years. But although computer-based...
Ready Player Two
Women Gamers and Designed Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Cultural stereotypes to the contrary, approximately half of all video game players are now women. A subculture once dominated by men, video games have become a form of entertainment composed of gender binaries. Supported by games such as Diner Dash, Mystery Case Files, Wii Fit, and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood—which...
Militarizing the Environment
Climate Change and the Security State
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
As the seriousness of climate change becomes more and more obvious, military institutions are responding by taking a prominent role in the governing of environmental concerns, engaging in “climate change war games,” and preparing for the effects of climate change—from conflicts due to loss of food,...
by Jussi Parikka
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that precede media themselves—Earth’s history, geological formations,...
Care of the Species
Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Across the globe, an expanding circle of care is encompassing a growing number of species through efforts targeting biodiversity, profoundly revising the line between humans and nonhumans. Care of the Species examines infrastructures of care—labs and gardens in Spain and Mexico—where plant scientists...
Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe
New Cleavages in Left and Right Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In this far-reaching work, Swen Hutter demonstrates the usefulness of studying both electoral politics and protest politics to better understand the impacts of globalization. Hutter integrates research on cleavage politics and populist parties in Western Europe with research on social movements. He...
Border Walls Gone Green
Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
How is it that self-identified environmental progressives in America can oppose liberalizing immigration policies? Environmentalism is generally assumed to be a commitment of the political left and restrictionism a commitment of the right. As John Hultgren shows, the reality is significantly more complicated....
The Geek's Chihuahua
Living with Apple
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
At dinnertime: check. At a traffic light: check. In bed at the end of the day: check. In line at the coffee shop: check. In The Geek’s Chihuahua, Ian Bogost addresses the modern love affair of “living with Apple” during the height of the company’s market influence and technology dominance.
The...
by Ian Bogost
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Humanity has sat at the center of philosophical thinking for too long. The recent advent of environmental philosophy and posthuman studies has widened our scope of inquiry to include ecosystems, animals, and artificial intelligence. Yet the vast majority of the stuff in our universe, and even in our...
by Ian Bogost
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now regularly appear in the New York Times and the New Yorker, and sales figures for games are reported alongside those of books, music, and movies. They...
Trans-Indigenous
Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
What might be gained from reading Native literatures from global rather than exclusively local perspectives of Indigenous struggle? In Trans-Indigenous, Chadwick Allen proposes methodologies for a global Native literary studies based on focused comparisons of diverse texts, contexts, and traditions in...
Disconnect
Facebook's Affective Bonds
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
No matter how pervasive and powerful social media websites become, users always have the option of disconnecting—right? Not exactly, as Tero Karppi reveals in...