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Elin Anna Labba The Home of the Drowned

p11 Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly The Bewitched

p24 Sue Leaf Minnesota's Geologist

p36 Jonathan Basile Natural Lection

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p37 Jody Berland and Thomas Lamarre, editors Digital Animalities p13 Louise Brooks Lulu in Hollywood

p52 Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies, editors Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities

p14 Patrick F. Cannon and James Caulfield Robie House

p10 Mary Logue A Wasp in the Beehive p35 Peter D. McDonald The Impossible Reversal

pp16-17 Mary Casanova and Jordan Sundberg Northwoods Lullaby

p26 Katherine McKittrick Demonic Grounds

Brittany Lewis Building a New Table

p50 Ivan Cerecina Assembly Lines

p27 Katherine McKittrick Heartbreak and Other Geographies

p41 Kevin L. Clay I Guess This Is Activism?

p15 Helen Mitsios, editor Out of the Blue

p42 Tim Cresswell The Citizen and the Vagabond

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p40 Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román, and P. Taylor Webb, editors Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions

p14 Rachel Nelson, Alexandra Moore, and Ari Friedlaender, editors Weather and the Whale

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p25 William Durbin Red Ore Rising p39 Vilém Flusser Thinking Further p34 Ellery E. Foutch A Perfectionist Impulse p28 Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin p15 Peter Geye A Lesser Light p9

Shannon Gibney and Huy Voun Lee Where Is My Sister?

p46 Reid Gómez The Web of Differing Versions p43 Serra M. Hakyemez Deadly Refusals p12 Dan Hassler-Forest Fast and Furious Franchising p22 Laurie Hertzel Ghosts of Fourth Street p23 Laurie Hertzel News to Me p24 Jane King Hession Elizabeth Scheu Close p53 Hsuan L. Hsu Olfactory Worldmaking

Lisa Nakamura The Inattention Economy

Just Knud Qvigstad and Isak Saba, editors Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds

p44 Rhea Rahman Racializing the Ummah pp20-21 Ryan Rodgers Where the Green Light Shines pp18-19 Gail Rosenblum and Kait Ziemer-Davis Sea Salt Eatery p25 Michael Schumacher Too Much Sea for Their Decks p38 Michel Serres Hermes III p48 Dominic Smith Bridging Benjamin p53 Steven Swarbrick Divest p51 Matthew I. Thompson On Life Support p47 Sharon N. Tran Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire p7

Vendela Vida, David Katznelson, and Ulf Olsson, editors Out of the Darkness

p54 Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert Vector Media

p23 Roberta Walburn Miles Lord

p45 Chad Benito Infante Murderous Feeling

p29 Phillip E. Wegner Late Theory

p49 Christophe Wall-Romana Black Light p32 Cary Wolfe Jagged Ontologies

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The Home of the Drowned A Novel ELIN ANNA L ABBA TRANSLAT ED BY ELIZABETH CL ARK W E S S E L

The haunting, multigenerational saga of a family of Sámi women fighting the devastation of their way of life Nothing is true, and everything is true; poetry will never hurt more than what has happened.

Every summer, Iŋgá, her mother Rávdná, and her Aunt Ánne travel west to their village on the lake. But the summer Iŋgá is thirteen, they arrive to find their home and possessions have disappeared under water, the land flooded by a dam built to supply hydropower to a society that has continually stolen from them.

The Home of the Drowned follows these women’s fortunes over forty years—from 1942 to 1982—as the water their people have lived near for centuries is transformed into a menacing force that threatens all they hold dear. Defying the authorities, Rávdná decides to build a proper house on the lake to replace what was lost, becoming an unlikely activist even as her actions isolate her family

from the rest of the community. Meanwhile, Ánne’s health is in decline, and a concerned Iŋgá merely longs to live like everyone else—an impossible wish when the Swedish government is relentlessly drowning her world.

Drawing on her own family’s history of forced relocation and violent colonial dispossession, Elin Anna Labba’s debut novel brings Sámi history to the fore through this intimate story.

In poetic prose deftly translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, she reveals connections between land, water, and people that hauntingly reverberate with the question: what is it that makes a home?

The Home of the Drowned a novel

The International Prizewinner

ELIN ANNA L A B BA Translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel

Elin Anna Labba is a Sámi journalist and author from the arctic region of Sweden. Her first book, The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi, also published in translation by the University of Minnesota Press, won the 2020 August Prize for Best Nonfiction in Sweden.

Elizabeth Clark Wessel is a poet and translator of numerous books, including The Eighth House by Linda Segtnan, Let’s Hope for the Best by Carolina Setterwall, and What We Owe by Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde.

Originally from rural Nebraska, she now lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

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The Inattention Economy How Women of Color Built the Internet L I S A NAKAM URA

Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economy “A groundbreaking rereading of the entire history of the internet, The Inattention Economy is a monumental work that shifts the terms by which we understand its genesis.

Calling for redress and reparations for the women of color whose work was exploited in the internet’s creation, Lisa Nakamura presents a bold and compelling interrogation of digital racial capitalism.”

—Grace Kyungwon Hong, author of Death beyond Disavowal

“The Inattention Economy contributes a crucial analysis of the history of digital technologies: the way these technologies have been systematically built out of the embodied labor of women of color. Lisa Nakamura brings new life to ‘women of color’ as a politically potent category in discussions of new technologies, using it as a prism to diffract the strategic resistance women continue to employ despite ongoing exploitation and erasure.”

—Kalindi Vora, author of Reimagining Reproduction

The Inattention Economy challenges the widespread myth that the internet was born from the labor of a handful of white male entrepreneurs, recovering the uncredited and unpaid contributions of women of color.

Focusing on three key inflection points

in computing—the microchip era of the 1960s and ’70s, the rise of social media in the 2000s, and A.I.-fueled virtual reality in the 2020s—Lisa Nakamura illuminates women’s instrumental roles in building new technologies and making them coherent to users.

From the Navajo women who manufactured the first semiconductor circuits in New Mexico to Tila Tequila, the queer Vietnamese American refugee who became the first true internet influencer in the MySpace age, to Black virtual reality creators, Nakamura highlights how women’s gendered and racialized identities have uniquely positioned them to mediate the development and proliferation of new technologies. She exposes how these women have been structurally excluded from racial capitalism’s benefits while their labor is considered as exploitable and inexhaustible as that of machines.

Arguing for both recognition and material compensation for these women’s labor, The Inattention Economy is a powerful counterhistory of Silicon Valley and a persuasive call to imagine a different kind of internet.

Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures and the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is author of several books, including Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet and Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota, 2007).

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Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds COLLECTED BY JUST KN UD QVIGSTA D A N D I S A K S A B A

Sámi Folktales

TRANSLAT ED F R OM THE N OR WEGIA N B Y B A R B A R A S J O H O LM

FROM TH E N E A R AND FAR WORLDS

The most comprehensive collection of Sámi folktales ever translated into English

reindeer herders, lay preachers, and teachers from the interior plateaus and valleys to the Arctic fjords.

"For decades, these stories have provided contemporary Sámi literature with drama, detail, and inspiration. This collection is a treasure trove for every writer and reader to choose from, and it's a gift to the English language that these folktales are now translated."

Originally recorded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the Norwegian philologist Just Knud Qvigstad and the Sámi politician and folklorist Isak Saba, this collection spans centuries of storytelling in multiple genres, from migratory fairytales with kings and princesses to legends of ghosts and the Devil to fables with talking animals.

With historical context that reveals the cultural resilience of the Sámi people, Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds honors these traditional narratives, often overlooked in other folktale anthologies from the Nordic countries. Translator Barbara Sjoholm’s insightful introduction describes Qvigstad’s and Saba’s backgrounds and their work in gathering and translating these essential texts, and she introduces Sámi storytellers Johan Aikio, Efraim Pedersen, and Elen Utsi, who contributed dozens of stories.

—Elin Anna Labba, author of The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow

“Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds is invaluable to anyone even remotely curious about the Sámi. The deeper you dig into this collection, the more satisfying it gets.”

—Lise Lunge-Larsen, author of Seven Ways to Trick a Troll

“Beautifully written, Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds captivates the reader from the very beginning.”

—Line Esborg, University of Oslo

From the vast region of Northern Sápmi comes Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds, the most extensive compilation of Sámi narratives recorded from Sámi storytellers ever published in English translation. Comprising more than 300 folktales and legends from northern Norway, including many from the coastal Sámi and the Skolt Sámi of eastern Finnmark, this volume illuminates an oral storytelling tradition and shares narratives told by fishers, farmers,

An unprecedented trove of Sámi narratives, this expansive collection brings most of these tales to English readers for the first time, marking a major contribution to Indigenous folk literature and enhancing a broader understanding of Sámi and Nordic cultures.

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Just Knud Qvigstad and Isak Saba T R A N SL ATED BY B ARB ARA S JOHOLM

Just Knud Qvigstad (1853–1957) was a Norwegian philologist, linguist, and ethnographer. He wrote and published extensively on the Sámi people of northern Scandinavia.

Isak Saba (1875–1921) was a Sámi teacher, politician, and folklorist who collected and translated folktales from eastern Finnmark, including material from the Skolt Sámi.

Barbara Sjoholm is an award-winning translator and author of many books.

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Out of the Darkness Classic Short Fiction from Sweden V E NDELA VIDA, DAV ID KATZN ELSON , AND U LF O LS S O N , E D I T O R S

A brilliant anthology of stories by Swedish authors from the 1880s to the 1950s, many published for the first time in English “Finally, an English-language collection of short stories by this exceptional group of Swedish writers who touch readers across space and time. Out of the Darkness is a gem to savor!”

—Stellan Skarsgård

"Out of the Darkness sheds light on an underexamined genre in Swedish literature. The period from 1880 to the 1950s arguably represents something of a literary golden age for Sweden, and these pearls of the prose art allow readers to sample an impressive spectrum of styles."

—Susan Brantly, University of Wisconsin–Madison

In the late nineteenth century, Swedish romanticism gave way to vibrant new literary styles that flourished through the 1950s.

Out of the Darkness is the first anthology to bring the short fiction of this golden age of Swedish literature to English readers, celebrating the country’s rich literary tradition and several of its most renowned authors. The stories in this volume (many in entirely new translations, and most never before published in English) reflect the arc of the short story in Sweden, from realism to symbolism to

modernist experimentation, and stand as lyrical exemplars of the creativity and depth of Swedish literature.

Some stories explore themes of crime and refuge, others ask what makes life meaningful, and some challenge sexual and social constructs of their time. All are fueled by shadows—of evil, madness, or fate, eerie fantasy or grim reality. Including internationally famous authors like August Strindberg, Stig Dagerman, and Nobel laureate Selma Lagerlöf, Out of the Darkness also features writing by influential women such as Victoria Benedictsson and Agnes von Krusenstjerna, who are less familiar to English readers. A showcase of stylistic virtuosity and incisive social commentary, Out of the Darkness at last brings this remarkable period of Swedish prose into the light.

Contributors: Victoria Benedictsson, Hjalmar Bergman, Karin Boye, Stig Dagerman, Thorsten Jonsson, Agnes von Krusenstjerna, Selma Lagerlöf, August Strindberg, Hjalmar Söderberg.

Vendela Vida is a founding editor of The Believer magazine and the award-winning author of six books, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty, and We Run the Tides. Two of her novels have been New York Times notable books of the year, and she is recipient of the Kate Chopin Award.

David Katznelson is a Grammy-nominated musicologist and record producer and publisher of the newsletter The Signal From David Katznelson.

Ulf Olsson is professor emeritus of literary studies at Stockholm University and literary critic for the daily newspaper Expressen.

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Building a New Table A Community-Centered Handbook for Transformative Social Change BRITTANY LEWIS , PhD

Building a New Table BRITTANY LEWIS, PhD

A vital guide to centering community knowledge to generate effective solutions to inequality

have little to do with the people and places they are meant to help. When this is the case, inclusion can only go so far: as Dr. Brittany Lewis argues, it’s time to build a new table.

“Dr. Brittany Lewis provides us with a different and muchneeded approach centered on a blend of community-based research, systems change, and community-building results. In this model, communities are viewed as qualified authorities on practice-based research and engaged in the science of designing and implementing solutions, and institutions are engaged in transformational learning and practice. Building a New Table is our pathway forward.”

Drawing on her work as a community researcher and nonprofit consultant, Dr. Lewis developed the Equity in Action (EIA) model as a framework for closing the gaps between communities, researchers, and institutions. By centering the knowledge of the community members who ostensibly benefit from the work of various organizations, EIA makes research questions more relevant and the research process more targeted, getting at the roots of social inequality to find sustainable, impactful solutions.

—Ilhan Omar, US House of Representatives (D-MN)

“This book cements Dr. Lewis as a leading voice on democratizing social change work in marginalized communities. Her uncommon insights and commitment to justice make Building a New Table an inspiring read that should be mandatory for anyone participating in this complex yet critical work.”

—Repa Mekha, president and CEO, Nexus Community Partners

When organizations take on social problems, from school reform to conservation to healthcare disparities, community members are sometimes “invited to the table” to share their insights. But if the table has already been set with institutional assumptions about the issue at hand, the solutions that emerge often

Practical and hands-on, Building a New Table guides readers through the steps of EIA: assessing the landscape, building the community action council, co-developing a research approach, data collection, community review, and identifying solutions.

Demonstrating how to ground solutions in lessons from lived experience, this book teaches how authentic community engagement and community-driven research creates reciprocal, generative relationships that can enact real, systemic change.

A Community-

Centered Handbook for Transformative Social Change

Dr. Brittany Lewis, founder and CEO of Research in Action, has served as senior research associate at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs and is featured in the Upper Midwest Emmy Award–winning documentary Jim Crow of the North and the radio documentary A Fiery Unrest: Why Plymouth Avenue Burned. She was a Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank Scholar-in-Residence, recipient of a 2020 Bush Foundation Fellowship, and winner of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Department 2020 History Makers at Home Award. Named one of the top 100+ Leading Black Women in 2020 by the Minnesota Black Chamber of Commerce, she was selected to deliver a TEDx Minneapolis talk, “The Illusion of Choice.”

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Where Is My Sister?

S H A N NON GIBNEY I L L USTRATIONS B Y HUY VOUN LEE

A poignant resource for helping children and families through the loss of a sibling “As a doula and childbirth educator, I’m a keeper of resources for my clients and community. Where Is My Sister? is an affecting book to share with families who’ve suffered the loss of a child. Shannon Gibney’s words and Huy Voun Lee’s illustrations offer a template for affirming a child’s curiosity about death, grief, and the ways that we strive to find comfort and meaning afterward.”

—Naima Beckles, owner, For Your Birth

Salome was going to be a big sister. Her brother, Gerald, told her so. They watched Mama’s tummy grow rounder and rounder, and their excitement grew, too. But then Mama went to the hospital, and she came home without a baby. The smiles stopped, and the house grew quiet except for Mama’s tears.

“Where is my sister?” Salome asks. Mama gathers her and Gerald onto her lap and tells them that baby Toni is in the cemetery, but she’ll always be their sister. Gerald says that she’s in the spirit world. Salome looks for her

Where Is My Sister? all over. Is Toni’s spirit in Mama’s tears? Is she in the family’s stories about her? Is she between Salome and her brother at the dinner table, or beside Salome’s favorite tree in the backyard? As her family begins to find peace, Salome understands something important: “My sister is everywhere.”

In Where Is My Sister? Shannon Gibney’s poetic voice captures the heartbreak of losing an infant and the love that joins family members together. Huy Voun Lee’s tender illustrations guide readers with quiet grace, honoring all those who passed from this world too soon. A resource for children and the parents, teachers, and community members who care for them, this book offers a powerful reflection for those who often feel alone during the painful and transformative experience of infant and sibling loss.

Shannon Gibney

Illustrations by

Huy Voun Lee

Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, and activist.

She is author of the children’s picture books Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight and We Miss You, George Floyd, both published by the University of Minnesota Press, as well as several books for young adults, including See No Color, Dream Country, and the Michael L. Printz Honor book The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption, all winners of Minnesota Book Awards. She teaches at Minneapolis College and was named Educator of the Year in 2023. She lives with her two children in Minneapolis.

Huy Voun Lee is author and illustrator of several picture books, including Exotic Fruit, Origami Playhouse, and Like a Dandelion, which was a Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Year. She lives in New York City.

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A Wasp in the Beehive A Brigid Reardon Mystery

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MARY L O GU E Salt Lake City, 1881: Brigid Reardon is again on the case when her new employer—a leader in the Church of Latter-day Saints—is murdered in his home Still reeling from the violence she encountered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Brigid Reardon presses on alone to Salt Lake City, where she decides to settle down in what she hopes is a safe community. Things look promising when she’s hired to work at the Deseret Bookstore and offered a room in the home of her employer, Mr. Cutter, a high-ranking member of the Church of Latter-day Saints, and his five wives.

Despite Brigid’s conflicting feelings about polygamy, she finds the Cutter wives warm and welcoming, and she thinks she may finally be happy here. As she settles in, Brigid learns that Mr. Cutter wants yet another wife, and he is set on Amelia, the daughter of one of his wives from a previous marriage. When Mr. Cutter is found apparently murdered in the women’s sewing room, each of the wives (plus Amelia and Mr. Cutter’s son) is

a suspect, and Brigid knows it’s up to her to figure out just who did it. As she continues to work in the bookstore and live with the grieving family, Brigid teams up with the local coroner to investigate—and with her undeniable knack for detection, it’s not long before she discovers a telltale clue.

A Wasp in the Beehive continues Brigid’s trek west in the United States after immigrating from Ireland with her brother, following her time in Deadwood, South Dakota, in The Streel and in Cheyenne in The Big Sugar. But with everything that has happened, will she stay in Salt Lake City, or will she move on again?

Mary Logue is the award-winning author of more than thirty books, including mysteries, poetry, nonfiction, and many books for children. Her Brigid Reardon series includes The Streel, a WILLA Literary Award finalist, and The Big Sugar, a Foreword INDIES winner, both published by the University of Minnesota Press.

She lives on both sides of the Mississippi River, in Minnesota and Wisconsin, with her fellow writer, Pete Hautman.

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The Bewitched J UL E S BARBEY D ’AUR EVILLY

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A haunting, resonant novel of passion and betrayal—in its first English translation since 1928 "Thanks to Raymond N. MacKenzie’s beautiful translation and reader-friendly introduction, The Bewitched by Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, one of the most original nineteenthcentury French writers, is again available in English.

Scrutinizing blind passions, its multivoiced narration portrays a cruel conflict between incurable political wounds, religious yearnings, and irrepressible love.

A memorable, far-sighted novel."

—Thomas Pavel, University of Chicago

“When we bring true passions into our works, we don’t fear the cries of the offended.” So declared Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly in 1853 as he prepared to publish The Bewitched in book form, restoring the sections that were unceremoniously deleted from its serialized release by an editor who deemed them too explicit, irreverent, and inflammatory. Newly translated into English for modern readers, The Bewitched is a beguiling tale of politics, obsession, and horror set against the backdrop of Normandy in postrevolutionary France.

Late at night in a foggy moor, the far clock tower rends the still air to mark the midnight hour. As the darkness settles back into

silence, another bell rings out, slow and somber, calling all who hear it to the Abbé de La Croix-Jugan’s Mass of the Dead. Returned to the priesthood in shame after breaking his vows by shedding blood in battle and attempting suicide in defeat, the disfigured man enthralls the inhabitants of this small village. Before long, a young married woman becomes infatuated with the enigmatic priest, and their fates are irrevocably intertwined.

When she succumbs to despair over her unrequited love, her husband is consumed by jealousy and vows revenge.

Layering stories within stories and continually shifting points of view, Barbey d’Aurevilly engages a mosaic of narrators to depict the era’s tensions between the aristocracy, the peasant class, and the church. Raymond N. MacKenzie’s lively translation is accompanied by his detailed introduction and notes that ground the novel in its historical, political, and literary contexts. A classic of French Gothic literature, The Bewitched blends religious transgression, satanic possession, and political upheaval into a fatal love story that is as gripping now as it was nearly two centuries ago.

Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly (1808–1889) is one of the most notorious of Decadent writers and the subject of a major critical and popular resurgence in France.

He wrote many books, including Diaboliques, also translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie and published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Raymond N. MacKenzie is professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has translated many classics of European literature, including books by Balzac, Flaubert, Stendhal, and Lamartine, also published by the University of Minnesota Press.

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Fast and Furious Franchising How the Serialized Blockbuster Remade Hollywood DAN HASSL ER-FOR EST

What the popularity of the Fast and Furious film franchise says about Hollywood blockbusters and media production “If you want to know why Hollywood has been doing the things it’s been doing for the past quarter century, there can be no better guides than Dan Hassler-Forest and Dominic Toretto. Read or die.”

—Mark Bould, author of The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture

“In Fast and Furious Franchising, author Dan Hassler-Forest tackles the notoriously messy world of this blockbuster film series with an engaging energy and clarity. By working chronologically through the series, this book astutely unpacks the complexities of Fast and Furious to reveal new insights into contemporary Hollywood and the past twentyfive years of studio filmmaking, distribution, and reception.”

—Fraser Elliott, coeditor of Full-Throttle Franchise: The Culture, Business, and Politics of Fast & Furious

Fast and Furious Franchising charts the transformation of Hollywood through the story of one of its most successful cinematic universes. Released in 2001, The Fast and the Furious became an unexpected hit, developing into a seven-billion-dollar media franchise with nine direct sequels (so far), one “sidequel,” copious spin-offs, and licensing deals from board games to theme park rides.

FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING

Dan Hassler-Forest shows how Fast and Furious paved the way for a new form of serialized storytelling that balanced new distribution practices and expansion into international markets with a savvy awareness of representational politics. By following the series’s development over the past twenty-five years, Fast and Furious Franchising reveals distinct phases that reflect larger mediaindustrial trends: the postclassical blockbuster era of the early 2000s; the emergence of the megafranchise between 2008 and 2014; the franchise’s “imperial” era, from 2015 through 2019; and the postpandemic crisis era of media saturation and franchise fatigue.

While examining this rapidly changing media landscape, Hassler-Forest offers lively, insightful analyses of the films as they have embraced ever-more-ludicrous plots and unlikely character turns while always maintaining their signature faith in the power of family. As he illuminates the role of the Fast and Furious movies in the global entertainment industry, Hassler-Forest shows how the films’ improbable success proves Dominic Toretto’s adage that, whether “you win by an inch or a mile . . . winning’s winning.”

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HOW the SERIALIZED BLOCKBUSTER REMADE HOLLYWOOD DAN HASSLER-FOREST

Dan Hassler-Forest is assistant professor of media and culture studies at Utrecht University. He is author of several books, including Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label; Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism; and Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age. FILM AND MEDIA ST UDIE S/POPUL AR CULT URE $21.95 Paper ISBN: 978-1-5179-2108-8 $88.00xx Cloth ISBN: 978-1-5179-2107-1 $21.95 Retail e-book ISBN: 978-1-4529-7532-0 APRIL 240 pages 33 b&w illustrations 6 x 8 Mass Markets: Storyworlds Across Media Series Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

Lulu in Hollywood

The collected writings of this icon of the silent era—rereleased in print and now available as an e-book 100 years after Louise Brooks arrived in Hollywood “Brooks is brilliantly perceptive and articulate.”

—New York Times

“A tour de force, as history and as a searching study of human nature.”

—Publishers Weekly

“A tart, fleet, gossipy book, a whip-flicking display of wit and spite.”

—James Wolcott, Esquire

“An exhilarating display of the sort of diamond-hard prose whose beauty is inseparable from its precision.”

—Film Comment

“An essential for feminists and film lovers alike.”

—Word and Film

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Lulu in Hollywood is an intimate collection of eight autobiographical essays by Louise Brooks, silent film darling and icon of the flapper era. Ranging from her childhood in Kansas and her early days as a Denishawn and Ziegfeld Follies dancer to her friendships and relationships with Martha Graham, Charles Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Humphrey Bogart, William Paley, G. W. Pabst, and others, Brooks’s writing offers a rare glimpse into her extraordinary life. Including her revelatory “Why I Will Never Write My Memoirs,” Lulu in Hollywood also features Kenneth Tynan’s 1979 New Yorker essay “The Girl in the Black Helmet,” which revived interest in Brooks’s work and was the best discussion of her film work published during her lifetime.

LULU IN HOLLYWOOD LOUISE BROOKS Louise Brooks (1906–1985) was one of the most famous actresses of the silent era, renowned as much for her rebellion against the Hollywood system as for her performances in such influential films as Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl.

BIOGRAPHY/FILM $19.95 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-3731-7 $19.95 Retail e-book ISBN: 978-1-4529-7597-9 FEBRUARY 208 pages 70 b&w plates 7 1/2 x 9 COBE

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Robie House

Weather and the Whale

A Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece PATRICK F. CAN N ON

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P H OTOGRAPHS BY J A MES CAUL F IEL D

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RACHEL NELSON, ALEXANDRA MOOR E, AND ARI F RIEDLAENDER, EDI TORS

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A lavishly illustrated guide to one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most important residential buildings

A collaborative exploration of the vulnerabilities of marine mammals in the age of climate change

Completed in 1910, Robie House was one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpieces, emblematic of his Prairie style. Through years of turbulence in ownership and narrowly avoided demolition, changes were made to the building to suit its various occupants. Previous books about the iconic structure include images that reflect these adaptations, but now, with the publication of Robie House, readers can finally experience Wright’s original vision following the meticulous eleven-year restoration by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.

Weather and the Whale is a unique exhibition catalog, combining artworks, critical and creative texts, and new scientific research about whales and other marine mammals. Collaboratively organized by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Bio-Telemetry and Behavioral Ecology Lab at UC Santa Cruz, Weather and the Whale raises fundamental questions about knowledge, power, multispecies relationships, and the responsibilities—and limits—of science in addressing the complexities of the climate crisis.

Patrick F. Cannon provides invaluable historical context for the UNESCO World Heritage Site and its groundbreaking design, and all new photography by James Caulfield illuminates the breathtaking open plan that fully confirms this building as one of the landmarks of world architecture.

Artists: Imani Jacqueline Brown, Carolina Caycedo, Sharon Daniel, Yolande Harris, Ashley Hunt, Courtney Leonard, John Jota Leoñas, Libia Posada, Mia Eve Rollow, Christine Howard Sandoval, Whale Liberation Front, Sam Williams, Suné Woods.

Patrick F. Cannon and James Caulfield have collaborated on nine books on Chicago architects and architecture, four of which were Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal winners, including Louis Sullivan: An American Architect, also distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.

Scientists: Natalia Botero-Acosta, Chloe Lew, Logan Pallin.

Other contributors: Guillermo Delgado-P., Cory Diane, Mirra-Margarita Ianeva, LuLing Ososfky, Kailani Polzak, Şebnem Susam-Saraeva, Zac Zimmer.

Rachel Nelson is director and chief curator at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

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at UC Santa Cruz. Alexandra Moore is curator of academic programs at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. Ari Friedlaender is professor of ocean 12 x 9

sciences and director of the Friedlaender Bio-Telemetry and Behavioral Ecology Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz.

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New Short Fiction from Iceland H E L E N M IT S IO S , E D IT O R FO R E W O R D B Y S J Ó N

A Lesser Light

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Out of the Blue

A Novel PETER GEYE

The first anthology of Icelandic short fiction published in English translation—now in paperback

On the rocky shores of Lake Superior, a piercing story of independence and determinism develops—now in paperback

“These are stories by and about Icelanders, not Iceland filtered through a tourist’s lens . . . stories of life, love, family, and the tenuous yet unbreakable connections between our ancestral pasts and our mundane presents.”

“This bittersweet narrative astounds.”

—American Book Review

Featuring twenty of Iceland’s most celebrated contemporary authors, Out of the Blue is a groundbreaking collection of stories from one of the world’s most active and distinctive literary landscapes—a universe where the ghosts of Vikings tread, volcanoes grumble underfoot, and the Northern Lights shimmer—presenting English readers with a rare, deep foray into the island’s realities and imaginations.

Contributors: Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson, Andri Snær Magnason, Auður Ava Olafsdóttir, Auður Jónsdóttir, Bragi Ólafsson, Einar Már Guðmundsson, Einar Örn Gunnarsson, Gerður Kristný, Guðmundur Andri Thorsson, Gyrðir Elíasson, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Kristín Eiríksdóttir, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Magnús Sigurðsson, Ólafur Gunnarsson, Óskar Árni Óskarsson, Óskar Magnússon, Rúnar Vignisson, Þórarinn Eldjárn, Þórunn Erlu-Valdimarsdóttir.

Helen Mitsios is a poet, author, and professor of languages and literature at Touro University in New York City. Sjón is an award-winning Icelandic author.

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—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A meticulously told story of flawed people seeking connection.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Here the dynamic between husband and wife presents its own challenging terrain, stony and sea-battered yet ultimately beautiful.”

—Booklist

Set on the shore of Lake Superior in 1910, A Lesser Light tells the story of a newly commissioned lighthouse station, its keeper, and an ill-suited arranged marriage. Theodulf Sauer and his new wife, Willa, couldn’t be less similar, but they build a life together, and Willa finds solace in the cosmos and their neighbors across the cove. As Theodulf reckons with the past and Willa begins to forge her own path to happiness, tragedy comes to their remote beacon, and the future plunges into the dark unknown.

Peter Geye is the award-winning author of Safe from the Sea, The Lighthouse Road, Wintering, Northernmost, and The Ski Jumpers, also published by the University of Minnesota Press. He lives in Minneapolis with his family.

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Northwoods Lullaby M ARY CASAN OVA ILLUSTRATION S BY JOR DAN SUN D B E R G

A springtime stroll transforms into a heartwarming bedtime lullaby “In this celebration of the northwoods, Mary Casanova’s sparkling, rhythmic text and Jordan Sundberg’s beautifully layered illustrations combine to deliver a soothing bedtime book full of arresting details for young readers.”

—Joyce Sidman, author of Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

“Frogs croak-croak, ferns unfurl, fox kits snuggle, pine boughs sway, loons call. Mary Casanova’s lyrical language and Jordan Sundberg’s luminous art invite us to share in the wonders of a northwoods walk in a lovely, lilting lullaby for all.”

—Phyllis Root, author of The Lost Forest and Plant a Pocket of Prairie

climbing trees with mama, foxes and hares, wolf pups playing in their den. Celebrating new life as spring unfolds, Northwoods Lullaby blossoms from a melody Mary Casanova began to hum while rocking her newborn grandbaby to sleep, a lullaby that can now be shared with generations to come.

Pairing Casanova’s signature lyrical writing with collage illustrations by Jordan Sundberg of Tin Cup Design, this bedtime story invites readers of all ages to explore the world of nature and discover the unexpected along the way. It’s time to sing a lullaby, a pine bough swaying lullaby, a lady’s-slipper lullaby . . . a lullaby for you.

Mary Casanova is author of dozens of books for young readers, including Hush Hush, Forest and Wake Up, Island, both published by the University of Minnesota Press. She and her husband live in a tiny cabin near Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota.

Jordan Sundberg is an artist and illustrator based in Duluth, Minnesota, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and two bunnies. She is coauthor and illustrator of Fables of the North Shore.

It’s time to sing a lullaby, and all throughout the northwoods, different wild animals join in.

Come along with a child and their grown-up as they enjoy an evening hike. Loons drift on the serene lake, a baby on papa’s back. On the banks nearby, swans hatch, and deer graze in the grass. Look, and you’ll find bear cubs

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Watermelon Gazpacho Makes 6–8 servings

When I try to imagine my perfect hot summer day, I see an afternoon spent sipping cold beer or wine, with a bright red watermelon gazpacho in front of me, listening to the roar of nearby Minnehaha Falls. For those of you looking to recreate a piece of the magic that is Sea Salt, we can’t think of a better way than enjoying watermelon gazpacho in your own beautiful backyard.

1 red onion 3 red bell peppers 3 cucumbers, peeled and seeded 2 jalapenos, halved and seeded 6 tomatoes ½ cup cilantro ½ cup red wine vinegar 2 teaspoons salt 1 small seedless watermelon or ½ large watermelon To begin preparing your vegetables, divide the red onion, jalapeno, peeled cucumber, and red bell pepper into two containers, with half of each ingredient in each container. For the first container, a quick, rough chop will suffice, and also do the same for all of the tomatoes and the watermelon. For the second container, finely dice all of the vegetables and set aside.

Next, working in batches, place the rough chopped ingredients along with the cilantro and salt into a blender and blend until smooth, emptying blended liquid into a large sealable container. Once all of the blending is finished, mix in the red wine vinegar and diced vegetables. Cover and refrigerate at least three hours before serving. Serve chilled with tortilla chips or crusty bread.

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Sea Salt Eatery Recipes to Enjoy Year-Round GAI L ROSENBLUM AN D KAIT ZIEMER -DAV I S

Favorite recipes and behind-the-scenes stories from Minneapolis’s cherished summer spot Located mist-distance from Minnehaha Falls, South Minneapolis fish stand Sea Salt has been a beloved summer gathering spot for more than twenty years. A feast of recipes and lore, Sea Salt Eatery: Recipes to Enjoy YearRound opens the kitchen doors to regulars— and the curious few who haven’t been—with stories from employees past and present that capture the fun and flavor of the iconic restaurant.

A summer of seafood soul-searching on the East Coast inspired Jon Blood—already a veteran of the Minneapolis seafood scene— to start his own fish shack in the Twin Cities, and after a couple of false starts, Sea Salt was born. From its ragtag early days of fish sandwiches grilled with questionable legality in a propane turkey fryer on the front steps of a park's concession stand, the humble eatery quickly became a culinary juggernaut, spinning seafood into gold in an unlikely but

idyllic midwestern locale. Today, lines out the door for fried fish tacos and a rotating board of specials are a testament to the passion, hard work, and occasional quirks of fate that have shaped Sea Salt’s story since its founding in 2005.

At the heart of this book, of course, is the seafood that makes Sea Salt what it is: panko walleye, grilled catfish, Thai tuna, crabcakes, BBQ shrimp, and more, featured in mouthwatering photographs and accompanied by perfectly complementary sides. Placing tempting recipes alongside gorgeous images of the restaurant’s verdant surroundings and warm, often surprising reflections from longtime staff, revered chefs, and fans, Sea Salt Eatery reminds us to slow down, savor a good meal and great company, and celebrate Minnesota summer in one of its most scenic restaurant settings—or at home, all year long.

Recipes to Enjoy Year-Round

Gail Rosenblum & Kait Ziemer-Davis

Gail Rosenblum, a retired editor and columnist for the Minnesota Star Tribune, is author of A Hundred Lives Since Then: Essays on Motherhood, Marriage, Mortality, and More.

Kait Ziemer-Davis has made her career in restaurants, beginning at Café Teresa in South Dakota and moving on to stints at Chatterbox, Modist, St. Paul’s award-winning Joan’s in the Park, and, since 2010, Sea Salt Eatery.

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Where the Green Light Shines A Fifty-Year Odyssey from the Boundary Waters to the Far North RYAN ROD GER S

WHERE THE GREEN LIGHT SHINES A F I F T Y-Y E A R O DYS S E Y F R O M T H E B O U N DA RY WAT E R S TO T H E FA R N O R T H

R YA N R O D G E R S A unique glimpse into the world of arctic canoeing through the travels of one of North America’s most renowned paddlers A centuries-long story of adventure runs through the Boundary Waters. Stretching from northern Minnesota into the Canadian Shield, this expanse of lake-dappled land— long the domain of Indigenous tribes and fur traders—is the most popular wilderness destination in North America, with over 200,000 visitors dipping their paddles into its ancient waterways each year. Bridging the legendary arctic expeditions of the nineteenth century and the making of today’s recreational paddling tradition, Where the Green Light Shines is a fascinating chronicle of canoe exploration, told through the journeys of a true master of the craft, Bob O’Hara.

O’Hara first launched his canoe as a Boy Scout in the 1950s, and he spent every summer for the next sixty-five years venturing further north into the Canadian barrens, a region rarely seen by paddlers. Mentored by a generation of adventurers and by the Inuit who mastered

the northern tundra rivers, O’Hara would become a guiding light for many young canoeists. Passionate yet guarded, O’Hara dedicated his life to the thrill of paddling, and his extraordinary journeys here become a touchstone as Ryan Rodgers tells the story of a nascent canoeing scene that continues to thrive today.

A vivid depiction of the northern wilds traversed by an eclectic roster of paddlers, bush pilots, and historic characters, Where the Green Light Shines illuminates a lost world of arctic canoeing remade in our time. It is bound to transport anyone interested in outdoor adventure—from wilderness canoeists to armchair travelers—and to bring home the eternal allure of the far north.

Ryan Rodgers is a freelance writer, a frequent paddler, and author of Winter’s Children: A Celebration of Nordic Skiing, also published by the University of Minnesota Press. He is a regular contributor to several regional publications and lives with his family in Duluth, Minnesota.

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Ghosts of Fourth Street My Family, a Death, and the Hills of Duluth LAURIE HERTZEL

Ghosts of Fourth Street

My Family, a Death,

and the Hills of Duluth

A frank rumination on a brother’s death and its reverberations throughout a family “Laurie Hertzel knows that memories don’t just live in our shadows, they’re present in our very DNA, making us who we are, even as they keep who we’ve lost alive.

Monumentally moving.”

—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Days of Wonder and Pictures of You

“Laurie Hertzel somehow elegizes not only her own childhood in the 1960s but mine, too. Whatever is universal in twentieth-century American childhood, it’s here.”

—Melissa Fay Greene, author of Praying for Sheetrock and No Biking in the House Without a Helmet

“Wholesome, complex, and fascinating.”

—Mark Kramer, founding director, Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism, Harvard University

Every family has its stories and secrets. Laurie Hertzel’s family had more than its share. At an early age, Laurie, the seventh of the ten Hertzel children, took on the challenge of sorting them out. Not old enough to be one of the Big Kids, yet too old to be with the Three Little Kids, she spent most of her time alone, reading, wandering, and observing her family as they moved around her in their

house in Duluth. Though her parents were not warm, there were moments of closeness in those years—but everything shattered after the sudden death of Laurie’s oldest sibling, eighteen-year-old Bobby, when she was just nine years old.

Moving back and forth in time, Laurie reflects on Bobby’s death and what happens to a family’s story when no one can talk about a tragedy and its toll. In Ghosts of Fourth Street, readers witness how the apparition of memories, the shadow of needs unmet, and the spirit of a family once whole all linger long after the death of a child and brother.

As Laurie shares her experiences, we see the emergence of her fascination with story and truth as she teaches herself to read and finds solace and inspiration in books amid the tensions and competing agendas within her big, complicated family.

With keen attention, candor, and grace, Laurie paints a vivid portrait of 1960s Duluth as she poignantly examines a family contending with grief and the fact that life steadily goes on—snow and school buses, Christmases and Thanksgivings, ice skating and tobogganing and climbing trees, with ghosts always lingering at the edges.

Laurie Hertzel A lifelong journalist, Laurie Hertzel spent fifteen years as the books editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and now reviews for the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. Her memoir News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist, also published by the University of Minnesota Press, won a Minnesota Book Award. She is a past president of the National Book Critics Circle and has taught at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, The Ohio State University, and the University of Georgia. In 2023, she received the Kerlan Award in recognition of exceptional support for children’s literature. She is a Distinguished Professor of Practice in the low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction at the University of Georgia.

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Adventures of an Accidental Journalist LA U R IE H E R T Z E L

Miles Lord

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News to Me

The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice ROBERTA WAL BUR N

A journey through the bustling world of print journalism in the mid-1970s—now in paperback

The life of a crusading federal judge who stood up and fought for “the little guy”—now in paperback

“A top-notch storyteller.”

“Miles Lord set a new standard for judicial courage by speaking truth to power and fighting for the rights of the downtrodden. He shook up the system—and we’re all in his debt for that.”

—Cathy Wurzer

“Hertzel has an eye for the radiant details that conjure an entire way of life.”

—Charlotte Observer

At a time when newspaper copy was banged out on typewriters by chain-smoking men, Laurie Hertzel began her journey through the bustling world of print journalism, and her climb up the ranks of the Duluth News Tribune happened against the backdrop of a period of extraordinary change for the Midwestern city. News to Me is the chronicle of a small-city newspaper on the cusp of transformation, an affectionate portrait of Duluth and its people, and the account of a talented, persistent journalist who witnessed it all and was changing right along with it.

Minnesota Book Award – Readers’ Choice Award Laurie Hertzel worked at the Duluth News Tribune for nearly twenty years, was books editor at the Star Tribune, and now reviews for the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. She is author of Ghosts of Fourth Street: My Family, a Death, and the Hills of Duluth, also published by the University of Minnesota Press, and Distinguished Professor of Practice in the low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction at the University of Georgia.

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—Walter Mondale

“A book that’s hard to put down, providing insight not only into Lord’s colorful life but into the heyday of Minnesota liberal politics, the legal machinations of corporations, and the inside workings of the judicial system.”

—Star Tribune

This is the story of Miles Lord (1919–2016), who rose from humble beginnings on Minnesota’s Iron Range to become one of the most colorful and powerful judges in the country, described as “an unabashed Prairie populist” and “a live-wire slayer of corporate behemoths.” Weaving the drama of the landmark Dalkon Shield case into the larger story of the life of a remarkable man, Roberta Walburn crafts a sweeping and spirited portrait of Lord and his place in Minnesota and US history.

Roberta Walburn is an attorney based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she has been named one of the most influential members of the legal profession in state history. She has worked as a reporter for the Star Tribune, legislative assistant to US Senator Paul Wellstone, and law clerk to US District Judge Miles Lord.

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A Life in Modern Architecture J A NE KIN G HESSION

Minnesota’s Geologist

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Elizabeth Scheu Close

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The Life of Newton Horace Winchell SUE L EAF

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An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota’s first modern architect—now in paperback

The landmark story of Minnesota’s geology and early science— now in paperback

“At last, the book on Minnesota architecture we've been waiting for!”

“Sue Leaf has done a great service for the people of Minnesota and beyond by telling the story of Newton Horace Winchell so thoughtfully and beautifully.”

—Linda Mack, former architecture critic, Minneapolis Star Tribune

“[Close] inspired hundreds of women who followed her into the profession.”

—Minnesota Alumni Magazine

One of the few women who were practicing architects in the midtwentieth century, Elizabeth “Lisl” Scheu Close (1912–2011) indelibly influenced Minnesota’s built landscape. Thoroughly documenting Close’s projects, architectural historian Jane King Hession highlights themes of modern architecture, such as innovative materials and technologies and relationship between residential design and changing American lifestyles. This personal and professional biography describes the singular and successful career of a significant modern architect.

Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians David Stanley Gebhard Award Docomomo Modernism in America Award – Inventory/Survey Award of Excellence Jane King Hession is a founding partner of Modern House Productions and author or coauthor of several books, including John H. Howe, Architect, also published by the University of Minnesota Press. Joan Soranno is design principal with HGA in Minneapolis.

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—Harvey Thorleifson, former director, Minnesota Geological Survey

“Leaf writes with grace, reverence, and awe about the task Winchell faced: His work, she wrote, would tell the story ‘of the immense forces of nature, of rocks and fire and ice and time—unimaginable expanses of time—that few in the young state had pondered.’”

—Star Tribune

Tracing Newton Horace Winchell’s path to becoming a leading light of an emerging scientific field, Minnesota’s Geologist recreates the early days of scientific inquiry in Minnesota, when one man’s passion for learning could unlock secrets of the state’s distant past and present landscape. His life story, told here for the first time, draws an intimate picture of this influential scientist, set against a backdrop of Minnesota’s geological complexity and splendor.

Minnesota Book Award – Minnesota Nonfiction Sue Leaf is author of The Bullhead Queen: A Year on Pioneer Lake; A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts; Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life; and Impermanence: Life and Loss on Superior’s South Shore, all published by Minnesota.

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SHIPWRECKS OF MINNESOTA’S NORTH SHORE AND ISLE ROYALE

Shipwrecks of Minnesota’s North Shore and Isle Royale M IC H A E L S C H U M A C H E R

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Red Ore Rising

Red Ore Rising The Journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish Immigrant Story W IL L IAM DURBIN

THE JOURNAL OF

Otto Peltonen

A FINNISH IMMIGRANT STORY

William Durbin

AUTHOR OF MIGHTY FITZ

Shipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale—now in paperback

A boy from Finland describes his new life in the mines of northern Minnesota during the early twentieth century

“A must-read for Midwestern history buffs.”

“Historical notes and authentic photos round out this captivating, dramatic view of the past.”

—Publishers Weekly

—Booklist

“Schumacher masterfully blends the economic forces driving the shipping industry and the technology of boat building with the human stories of the captains and crews who sailed the lakes.”

“A vivid picture of what life was like for a Finnish immigrant in Minnesota during the early twentieth century.”

—Northern Wilds

—Shepherd Express

Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicles shipwrecked schooners, wooden freighters, early steel-hulled steamers, passenger vessels, whalebacks, and bulk carriers—some well-known, some unknown or forgotten, but all lost in the frigid waters of Lake Superior.

Including details on the three biggest storms in Minnesota’s Great Lakes history (the 1905 Mataafa storm, the 1913 hurricane on the lakes, and the 1940 Armistice Day storm), the tales told here are haunting odes to brave, heroic crews and indispensable pieces of the rich history of shipping on Lake Superior.

After journeying across the Atlantic with his mother and two sisters, young Otto Peltonen joins his father in the iron ore mines of northern Minnesota, experiencing the harsh labor conditions that were common at the time, as mining companies cared more about making a profit than for their workers’ safety. Writing in his journal about his family’s struggles and the hard life Finnish immigrants endured in the early twentieth century, Otto ultimately strengthens his resolve to find the freedom his family had first sought in America.

William Durbin is author of twelve novels for young readers, including Song of Sampo Lake, The Darkest Evening, Blackwater Ben, and Dead Man’s Rapids, all published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Michael Schumacher is author of several books on Great Lakes shipwrecks, including Mighty Fitz and Along Lake Michigan, both published by the University of Minnesota Press. He lives in Wisconsin.

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Demonic Grounds Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle ANNI V E R S ARY E DI T I ON

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Twentieth Anniversary Edition KATHERINE M C K ITTRIC K FOREW ORD BY SIMON E BROWN E AFTERW ORD BY SYLVIA WYN TER

The field-defining text for black geographies—now with a new foreword and afterword “Theoretically rich and engaging . . . A hugely important intervention.”

—Annals of the American Association of Geographers

“Lyrical and above all, haunting . . . [This] book is an exercise in graceful mobility.”

—Gender, Place and Culture

“A serious, thought-provoking, and interdisciplinary analysis of the intersection of racism and sexism.”

—The Geographical Review

“[An] invaluable contribution to critical theory in black studies.”

—Topia

The initial publication of Demonic Grounds in 2006 marked a watershed for the field of geography: revealing how human geographies are a result of racialized connections and black placemaking practices, this book opened the discipline to feminist, interdisciplinary, and black perspectives. Katherine McKittrick traces the geographies of black women across the diaspora, arguing that the spaces they inhabit are marked by legacies of violence and slavery while also being sites of unacknowledged political power. Making a forceful claim, she identifies rich opportunities within black geographies for social and cultural change and rebellion. With a new foreword by Simone Browne and comments from Sylvia Wynter on the original edition as an afterword, this twentieth-anniversary edition celebrates Demonic Grounds and its ongoing influence on twenty-first century geography.

DEMONIC GROUNDS

BLACK WOMEN AND THE CARTOGRAPHIES OF STRUGGLE

20th A NNIV E RSA RY E DITION

Katherine McKittrick Foreword by Simone Browne • Afterword by Sylvia Wynter

Katherine McKittrick is professor of gender studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University. She is author of Dear Science and Other Stories and Heartbreak and Other Geographies, edited

by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne (Minnesota, 2026).

Simone Browne is associate professor of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness.

Sylvia Wynter is professor emerita in Afro-American studies and Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University. She is author of the novel Hills of Hebron.

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Heartbreak and Other Geographies Collected Writings of Katherine McKittrick K AT HERINE M C KITTR ICK E DI T E D BY BRITTAN Y MEC HÉ AN D C AMI LLA H AW T H O R N E

Heartbreak and Other Geographies Collected Writings of

Katherine McKittrick

Edited by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne

A uniquely structured collection of essays from one of today’s most esteemed scholars of black studies "Urgent and exciting, with the potential to further rupture disciplinarity, Heartbreak and Other Geographies bridges seemingly disparate fields, unveiling their connections.

An invitation to think and write relationally with black geographic thought and black feminisms at the center, this book offers a rare opportunity to honor Katherine McKittrick’s legacy."

—LaToya Eaves, coeditor of Activist Feminist Geographies

A thoughtfully curated selection of texts by preeminent black feminist scholar Katherine McKittrick, Heartbreak and Other Geographies showcases the remarkable depth of inquiry she has generated over twenty years. Edited

by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne, this collection highlights McKittrick’s enduring commitment to ideas around radical placemaking and the creative articulations of and within the black diaspora.

McKittrick’s work is marked by a recurring engagement with anticolonialism, practices of liberation, and radical methodologies of black

cultural production. Through discussions of figures such as Toni Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Édouard Glissant, Paul Gilroy, Nina Simone, and Sylvia Wynter, the writing in Heartbreak and Other Geographies spans the author’s investigations into scientific method, liberal modernity, the cycles that perpetuate racial violence, and the poetics and sonics of black livingness.

Bringing together recent texts, influential pieces, and lesser-known essays, the unconventional format of Heartbreak and Other Geographies includes an introductory conversation with McKittrick as well as a series of creative interludes from the editors.

Innovative in both form and content, this wide-ranging volume invites us to rethink the boundaries between disciplines and the ways that scholarship can embody a more collaborative form of worldmaking.

Katherine McKittrick is professor of gender studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University. She is author of Demonic Grounds (Minnesota, 2006 and 2026) and Dear Science and Other Stories.

Brittany Meché is assistant professor of environmental studies at Williams College. Her writing is published in Political Geography, Society and Space, and Antipode.

Camilla Hawthorne is associate professor of sociology and critical race and ethnic studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of Contesting Race and Citizenship and coeditor of The Black Mediterranean and The Black Geographic.

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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin Strategies for Collective Survival KELLY FRITSCH AN D AN N E M C GUI R E

Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin Strategies for Collective Survival

A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-making We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and kill through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment, and ecological negligence. Fixes for these forms of breakage often conceal and amplify harm—but what happens if we refuse to rehabilitate this inhospitable world? In Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin, Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire urge an alternative response through abolition, access, care, and interdependence.

Bringing a much-needed disability studies lens to discussions of public policy, legal reform, and social change, Fritsch and McGuire show how hostile social and economic structures such as racial capitalism, neoliberalism, and settler colonialism unevenly target certain populations and environments. As they trace how everyday encounters with broken infrastructures like inaccessible transit, fragmented mental health care, and crumbling educational institutions reflect broader patterns of structural abandonment and slow violence, they pose a radical means of

response: the making of disabled kin. Ranging from mundane disruptions to global crises like pandemics, wars, genocides, and climate collapse, they demonstrate how disabled kin-making nurtures connection and support between people, ecologies, infrastructures, and objects, cultivating a collective “we” that can contest systems broken by design.

Urgent and passionate, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin asks readers to reexamine conceptions of breakage, maintenance, and repair, viewing them as tools of abolition and justice. Against relentless fragmentation and atomization, this book equips us with a politics of solidarity and collectivity that can help us begin making a more life-supporting world.

Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire

Kelly Fritsch is Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice and associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She is coauthor, with Anne McGuire, of We Move Together, an award-winning children’s book about accessibility and disability culture, and coeditor of Disability Injustice and Keywords for Radicals.

Anne McGuire is associate professor in critical disability studies and director of the program for Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity at the University of Toronto. She is author of War on Autism, which was awarded the Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities.

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Late Theory Fredric Jameson, or The Persistence of Reading P H I L LIP E. W EGN ER

Late Theory — Fredric Jameson, or A bold, dialectic engagement with Fredric Jameson’s thought Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) is widely regarded as the most influential literary and cultural theorist of the past fifty years. The culmination of more than three decades of sustained engagement with Jameson’s work, Late Theory offers the first critical response to his late writings, namely the final volumes of his “Poetics of Social Forms,” to develop an original and dialectical reading practice in conversation with his evolving thought.

Jameson’s final works bring renewed clarity to three foundational concerns that structure his intellectual legacy. These are the problem of periodization and the challenge of grasping the present as a historical category, the dangers posed by the rise of moralizing modes of critique in literary and cultural studies, and the radical interpretive potential unlocked by

allegory and the semiotic method. Phillip E. Wegner shows how these late interventions mark not a conclusion but an extension of Jameson’s long-standing project: envisioning the dialectic as a living, collective form of reasoning—a “thought mode of the future” capable of transforming our lives.

At its core, Late Theory is a passionate argument for cultural and aesthetic education as a practice of solidarity and imagination.

Foregrounding Jameson’s enduring effort to build heterogeneous communities of readers committed to shared inquiry, Wegner affirms the urgency of reading, teaching, and thinking together in a moment of crisis for the university and global culture.

The Persistence of Reading — Phillip E. Wegner

Phillip E. Wegner is professor and Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar in English at the University of Florida.

He is author of several books, including Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative and Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times (Minnesota, 2020).

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Grounding the Cloud Urbanism in the Shadow of Data ALI FARD

Grounding the Cloud

A detailed foray into the material and spatial realities of cloud computing Since the 1990s, technologists have promoted a vision of the “cloud” as a shapeless and intangible entity. Grounding the Cloud peers through this hazy façade to reveal the earthly material foundations of global computing and data extraction. Tracing the historical and technological development of the cloud computing paradigm, Ali Fard exposes an everevolving project in which ideologies, economic models, and marketing images collude to shape our shared urban environments.

Demonstrating how technology’s spatial footprint now stretches to nearly every corner of the globe, Grounding the Cloud analyzes the often-hidden infrastructures that facilitate platform capitalism—from the mines extracting rare earth minerals in remote regions to the vast global network of fiberoptic cables at the bottom of the oceans to the nondescript data centers that sit on the

peripheries of major urban areas. Meanwhile, with compelling examples of smart-city initiatives and corporate campuses, Fard shows how the future of urbanism is deeply intertwined with the growing economies of data extraction.

Breaking down the myth of a clean and efficient tech urbanism, this book makes visible the complex material geographies and geopolitics that undergird today’s most powerful and omnipresent corporations.

A timely critique of the growing agency of tech platforms in determining the future of urban space, Grounding the Cloud offers an essential framework for understanding the shifting relationship between technology and urbanization.

Urbanism in the Shadow of Data

Ali Fard

Ali Fard is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Virginia. He is coeditor of New Geographies, 7: Geographies of Information.

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Techno-Negative A Long History of Refusing the Machine T HOM AS DEKEYSER

T E C H N O - N E GAT I V E A Long History of Refusing the Machine

A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progress The history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimistically and inevitably from one emancipatory invention to the next. Techno-Negative turns this story on its head, taking us on a journey to the critical junctures where people have pointedly rejected and tried to undo, rather than adopt, new technologies. Beginning with Archimedes’s decision to destroy his own war machines, this book explores the will to negate technology as a deep—but persistently condemned—current in history.

As he presents a new theory of technological power, Thomas Dekeyser argues that technologies, never neutral, operate as “ontological policing,” drawing the boundaries of humanness as they are unequally leveraged by select groups. Looking beyond the Luddites to medieval monks banning tools, seventeenth-century loom burners, revolutionary lantern smashers, and computer

arsonists, Dekeyser shows how people have long recognized and resisted the machine as a violent, sometimes deadly force implicated in defining who counts as human and whose lives (and ways of life) are worth saving.

Against the ubiquitous demands to reform or accelerate technological “advancement” that have failed to disrupt our present, Dekeyser proposes a spirited alternative: abolition. He challenges us to rethink the terms of our technological present and future. In a time when Big Tech grows increasingly enmeshed with authoritarian control, Techno-Negative is a conceptual declaration, and source of inspiration, for those searching for a new paradigm of technological politics.

Thomas Dekeyser

Thomas Dekeyser is lecturer in human geography at the University of Southampton.

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Jagged Ontologies CARY W OLF E

Rethinking life, justice, and the biosphere through the sharp edges of jagged ontology In this groundbreaking book, Cary Wolfe dismantles some of the most entrenched assumptions in contemporary interdisciplinary thought, foremost among them the idea that “flat” ontologies are adequate to the challenge of a robust, posthumanist pluralism. Against the fantasy of nature as an interconnected, egalitarian web, Wolfe proposes a “jagged ontology” in which species and systems intersect not through seamless cooperation but through friction, contestation, and uneven exchange. Wolfe pushes back equally, however, against the reductive tendencies of neo-Darwinian competitive individualism, insisting that what separates us from the world is also what binds us to it—a paradox at the core of all living systems, where autopoietic closure unexpectedly creates environmental openness.

Through a combination of systems theory, deconstruction, theoretical biology, and biopolitical philosophy, Wolfe develops a radically posthumanist framework for addressing the ethical, social, and

political stakes of life in the biosphere.

Extending his approach across disciplines and practices (from ecological theory and continental philosophy to law, public policy, and contemporary art), he lays bare the contradictions embedded in even the most progressive attempts to account for the imbrication of the human and the morethan-human. Through a detailed and longoverdue examination of the popular notion of sympoiesis and a skeptical reading of the anthropomorphism of the “new forestry,” Wolfe reveals how well-intentioned theories can undermine the very posthumanist pluralism that they claim to champion.

More than a critique, Jagged Ontologies opens new philosophical terrain for understanding multispecies justice, environmental responsibility, and the structural dynamics of individuation and creativity in the biosphere. Wolfe offers a crucial rethinking of what it means to live and think ethically in a shared yet jagged world.

Cary Wolfe is founding director of 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory and Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University and fellow at the Berggruen Institute. He is author of several books, including Art and Posthumanism: Essays, Encounters, Conversations and What Is Posthumanism?, and editor of Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, all from Minnesota.

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Ambient Life Melville and the Ethereal Enlightenment BR A N KA ARSIĆ

AMBIENT LIFE Melville and the Ethereal Enlightenment Branka Arsić

Reviewing the human through the lens of Melville’s encounters with oceans, ecologies, and non-Western cosmologies Ambient Life offers a bold reimagining of Herman Melville’s writing through the lens of ecology. Renowned literary critic Branka Arsić reframes Melville not just as a novelist but as an environmental thinker—one who reoriented the terms of human identity, perception, and relation. Rather than treating Melville’s texts as separate literary objects, Arsić gathers them collectively to stage a philosophical meeting between Western Enlightenment epistemologies and the cosmologies of Polynesian and African traditions.

In Ambient Life, Melville’s thinking becomes a site where vegetal, animal, and elemental images dissolve the distinction between inner life and outer world, yielding a radically relational form of individuation. Showing how Melville envisioned the human body not as a bounded, rational mind-container but as a porous, sensing organ infused with

its surroundings, Arsić presents the mind as ambient rather than internal—a “coral psyche” shaped by atmospheric, aesthetic, and affective entanglements. Drawing from rich historical archives and ethnographic narratives, Arsić’s archipelagic method mirrors this fluidity, traveling across oceans and epistemes to map a mode of thought.

Pushing the limits of scholarly form and content, Ambient Life is a resonant meditation on the unstable boundaries of the self that positions Melville as a witness to the ecological precarity of our time—and an unwitting ancestor of posthumanist thought.

Branka Arsić is Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is coeditor, with Cary Wolfe, of The Other Emerson: New Approaches, Divergent Paths (Minnesota, 2010) and author of several books, including Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau and On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson.

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A Perfectionist Impulse The Art of Stopping Time in the Nineteenth Century ELLERY E. FOUTC H

Exploring a collection of wondrous objects to understand the nineteenth-century desire to preserve the perfect moment Cultural studies of the nineteenth century often categorize their subjects as being motivated by one of two opposing notions: a wholehearted embrace of progress or an antimodernist nostalgia. A Perfectionist Impulse centers a different kind of response to the period’s newly intensified awareness of temporality and history: an obsession with preserving perfection. Engaging a diverse set of case studies, Ellery E. Foutch explores the era’s desire to forestall the march of time and immortalize the fleeting moment through art and technology.

Beginning with an investigation of artist and naturalist Titian Peale’s butterfly illustrations and specimen boxes, Foutch assesses the implications of attempts to fix animal life in the “perfect state.” She then turns to Harvard University’s Ware Collection of Glass Flowers, botanical models meticulously crafted as instructional tools but most famous internationally as a spectacle for tourists. Finally, she scrutinizes the period’s

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preoccupation with the fragility of the human body, examining artistic representations of the legendary bodybuilder Eugen Sandow, widely known during his time as the “Perfect Man.” Highlighting the paradoxical way in which these attempts at preservation ultimately sap the vitality from the organic processes they seek to arrest, Foutch uses these curious objects to unpack a deep set of cultural anxieties around decay and death.

By analyzing objects of mass culture and natural history using methods typically reserved for works of art, A Perfectionist Impulse provides a unique perspective into how nineteenth-century scientists, technologists, artists, and entertainers rendered a common desire for perfection and immortality. Itself a wondrous collection of attempts to capture the idealized moment, this extensively illustrated book serves as a shining example of our enduring fascination with the ephemeral.

A Perfectionist Impulse Ellery E. Foutch

Ellery E. Foutch is associate professor of American studies at Middlebury College.

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The Impossible Reversal A History of How We Play P E T E R D. M C DONALD

Tracing the cultural history of play—from Fluxus to SimCity Games and gamified activities have become ubiquitous in many adults’ lives, and play is widely valued for fostering creativity, community, growth, and empathy. But how did we come to our current understanding of what it means to play? The Impossible Reversal charts the transformation of notions of playfulness beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, when a legion of artists, academics, and engineers developed new ways of theorizing, structuring, and designing ludic activity.

Through examples ranging from experimental Fluxus games to corporate role-playing exercises and from the Easy-Bake Oven to Tetris, The Impossible Reversal presents four styles of playfulness characteristic of the “era of designed play”: the impossible reversal, which puts a player in a seemingly hopeless scenario they must upend with a tiny gesture; expending the secret, which involves silly

rules that gain an obscure power and require players to embrace failure; simulated freedom, a satiric criticism of the ordinary world; and oblique repetition, a way of playing that stumbles toward unimaginable outcomes through simple, meaningless, and endlessly iterated acts.

A unique genealogical account of play as both concept and practice, The Impossible Reversal illuminates how playfulness became essential for understanding cultural, technical, and economic production in the United States.

Peter D. McDonald

Peter D. McDonald is associate professor of design, informal, and creative education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Natural Lection Cultures of Evolution JONATHAN BAS IL E

A radical deconstructive approach to evolutionary theory For as long as there has been evolutionary science, thinkers in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities have battled over whether evolutionary theory can or should provide insights into human nature and culture. Yet even the dissenters tend to agree that there is, somewhere, a natural foundation of instinctual or genetic inheritance; the debate is whether and how human culture is an exception from it. Natural Lection complicates this fundamental boundary as it exposes how our scientific knowledge of nature rests on a faulty foundation that must be supplemented by humanist thought.

Jonathan Basile, as part of the emerging movement of biodeconstruction, extends the work of Jacques Derrida into the life sciences as he parses writing on cultural evolution to reveal the contradictions within our opposing notions of genealogically governed nature and networked or viral human culture. Holding this opposition in suspense, Basile proposes a new framework: natural lection, the view of nature not as original material but as the

result of a shifting, always provisional act of reading. By paying careful attention to what biologists describe as a superficial layer of metaphor and rhetoric in their writing—but which he sees as an ineluctable textuality shaping the core of their work—Basile traces the political implications of scientific thought to its theoretical fragility, which calls for philosophical and literary modes of reading.

Showing how contemporary approaches to cultural evolution continue to repeat incoherent patterns of thought at least as old as Darwin—if not Aristotle—Natural Lection dismantles assumptions shared by evolutionary biology, cultural studies, and new materialism. By critically analyzing these foundations, Basile pushes back against the neoliberal and far-right weaponization of evolutionary theory, opening a novel terrain of scientific and political possibility.

NATURAL LECTION Cultures of Evolution JONATHAN BASILE

Jonathan Basile is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Toronto. He is author of Tar for Mortar: “The Library of Babel” and the Dream of Totality and Virality Vitality.

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Digital Animalities Mediating Life in an Age of Planetary Domestication J ODY BERLAND AN D THOMAS LAMAR R E, E D I T O R S

Exploring where animality meets digital media in the shadow of climate crisis Digital Animalities is a groundbreaking investigation into the entanglements of animal life, media infrastructures, and digital technologies in a time of environmental precarity and digital saturation. Revealing the digital as a dynamic site where animal agency and technological systems collide, the contributors eschew simplistic binaries to emphasize complex mediations between animals and digital media.

From wildlife camera traps and virtual zoos to gaming environments and animation tools, these essays explore how animals are captured, played with, and consumed through digital technologies, elaborating their agency in these mediations of ecological and biopolitical processes. Rethinking animality as a fluid and contested terrain shaped by climate

change, extinction pressures, and emerging ecopolitical paradigms, Digital Animalities shifts how we consider the impact of the digital on sentient lives and their futures.

Contributors: Giovanni Aloi, Art Institute of Chicago; Etienne S. Benson, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Sarah Bezan, U College Cork; Michael Fisch, U of Chicago; Kate Galloway, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Christine L. Marran, U of Minnesota; Brian McCormack; Jonathan Osborn; Hannah Tollefson, U of Toronto Scarborough; Tom Tyler, U of Leeds; Paul Wells, Loughborough U; Hang Wu.

jody berland and thomas lamarre, editors

DI GITAL AN I MAL I TI ES MEDIATING LIFE IN AN AGE OF PLANETARY DOMESTICATION

Jody Berland is professor emerita and senior scholar in the Department of Humanities at York University. She is author of North of Empire and Virtual Menageries and coeditor of Cultures of Militarization.

Thomas Lamarre is Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Language and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is author of The Anime Machine and The Anime Ecology, both from Minnesota.

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Hermes III Translation M ICHEL SERRES TRANSLAT ED BY RAN DOLPH BURKS

Michel Serres T R A N S L AT E D BY R A N D O L P H B U R K S

Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common language

warning: when knowledge is detached from its guiding purpose, it becomes vulnerable to appropriation by destructive political forces.

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Hermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel Serres’s renowned Hermes series, an ambitious exploration of the deep interconnections among disparate fields of knowledge. While Hermes II: Interference traced the overlapping echoes of ideas across realms, Hermes III moves to translate the structural logics of one field—be it genetics, painting, or philosophy—into the language of another. Revealing how the humanities, science, and art share hidden combinatory architectures, Serres exposes the underlying unity of knowledge systems typically thought distinct.

Yet Serres’s vision remains ultimately hopeful.

By tracing knowledge systems back to their mythic and structural roots, Hermes III: Translation gestures toward more harmonious relationships between fields. A rare synthesis of philosophy, science, art, and literature, this work will engage readers interested in the interdependence of disciplines and the possibilities for a more unified, humane understanding of knowledge.

Translation

Through an array of examples, from Monod’s Chance and Necessity to works by Descartes, Leibniz, Comte, Turner, and Roumain, Serres shows how translation uncovers informational and mathematical patterns that shape both ancient and modern thought. This illuminating methodology leads Serres to issue a stark

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Michel Serres (1930–2019) was author of more than sixty books, including Biogea, Variations on the Body, and The Parasite (all available in translation from Minnesota). He was widely known for his poetic prose and interdisciplinary form of thought.

Randolph Burks is an independent scholar who has translated many works by Michel Serres, including Variations on the Body, Biogea, and Hermes II, all

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published by the University of Minnesota Press.

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Thinking Further Fragments of Communicology Edited by

V I L É M FLUSSER

Siegfried Zielinski

and Silvia Wagnermaier

E DI T E D BY SIEGFRIED ZIELIN S K I AN D SILV I A WA G N E R MA I E R

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Friedrich A. Kittler

THINKING FURTHER

P R E FA CE BY FRIE DRIC H A. KITTLER E NGLISH VERSIO N EDITED BY AARON JA FFE AND M ICHAEL F. MIL LER

Fragments of Communicology

T R A N SLATED BY AN DR EW BATTAGL IA AN D D A N I E L R A S C H K E

The first English-language translation of Vilém Flusser’s final series of lectures: the definitive introduction to his methods and ideas in new media theory In summer 1991, shortly before his death, Vilém Flusser gave a series of lectures as guest professor at Ruhr University Bochum at the invitation of Friedrich Kittler. Flusser intended for these lectures to be the definitive introduction to his “communicology,” the study of human communication and the processes by which acquired information is saved, processed, and passed on. In Thinking Further, Aaron Jaffe and Michael F. Miller have curated “fragments” from these lectures— first published in German in 2008—to present the most exciting and timely of Flusser’s foundational contributions to what is now known as media studies.

These fragments capture Flusser’s engagements with a wide range of theories, approaches, and interventions, including ecocriticism, posthumanities, game theory, cybernetics, and translinguistic exchanges.

Offering sustained engagements with the

ideas of Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, and Jean Baudrillard, Thinking Further models possibilities for thinking through and clarifying the most obscure and obdurate implications of technology and modernity.

As they demonstrate Flusser’s contextual positionality and antiuniversalism, the writings presented here also underscore the pleasures and the power of his aphoristic style. Focusing less on Flusser-as-philosopher and more on his role as wry sage at the end of history, Thinking Further is a comprehensive but approachable introduction to his boundarytranscending exploration of the possibilities for communication, writing, and the human condition.

VILÉM FLUSSER English version

Translated by

and Michael F. Miller

and Daniel Raschke

edited by Aaron Jaffe

Andrew Battaglia

Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) was a Czech-born Brazilian philosopher, writer, and journalist. Silvia Wagnermaier is cocreator, with Siegfried Zielinski, of the Vilém Flusser archive at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

Siegfried Zielinski teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee. Friedrich A. Kittler (1943–2011) was professor and chair of aesthetics and media history at Humboldt University. Aaron Jaffe is Frances Cushing Ervin Professor of American Literature at Florida State University. Michael F. Miller teaches at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Andrew Battaglia is a translator and independent scholar. Daniel Raschke is assistant professor of English at Bethel College, Kansas.

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Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions ELIZABETH DE F R EITAS, MATTHEW X . C U R I N G A , EZEKIEL J. DIXON -ROMÁN , AN D P. TAY LO R W E B B , E D I T O R S

LE ARN I NG U N DE R ALGORITHMIC CON DITIONS

Exploring the influence of AI technologies on theories of reason, cognition, learning, and education Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions presents twenty-seven concise essays that collectively chart the shifting terrain of learning in the age of artificial intelligence.

Providing historical and philosophical context, this innovative volume features prominent scholars from the fields of media studies, philosophy, and education research, who shed light on how learning has become newly envisioned, machinic, and more-than-human.

The contributors unravel various histories of machine intelligence and elucidate the current impact of machine learning technologies on practices of knowledge production. Teeming with theoretical and practical insights, Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions is an interdisciplinary guide for those working across the humanities and social sciences as well as anyone interested in understanding our changing social, political, and technical infrastructures.

Contributors: Craig Carson, Adelphi U; Felicity Coleman, U of the Arts London; Ed Dieterle; Shayan Doroudi, U of California, Irvine; David Gauthier, Utrecht U; Cathrine Hasse, Aarhus U; Talha Can İşsevenler, CUNY; Goda Klumbytė; Robb Lindgren, U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Michael Madiao; Henry Neim Osman; Luciana Parisi, Duke U; Carolyn Pedwell, Lancaster U; Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue U; Julian Quiros, U of Pennsylvania; Sina Rismanchian; Warren Sack, U of California, Santa Cruz; R. Joshua Scannell, The New School; Gregory J. Seigworth, Millersville U; Rebecca Uliasz, U of Michigan; David Wagner, U of New Brunswick; Ben Williamson, U of Edinburgh.

Elizabeth de Freitas Matthew X. Curinga Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román P. Taylor Webb Editors

Elizabeth de Freitas is professor at Adelphi University.

She is author of Posthuman Social Science and Computational Culture.

Matthew X. Curinga is a software developer and associate professor at Adelphi University.

Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román is professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is author of Inheriting Possibility (Minnesota, 2017).

P. Taylor Webb is professor at the University of British Columbia. He is coauthor of Algorithms of Education (Minnesota, 2022).

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I Guess This Is Activism?

Youth, Political Education, and Free-Market Common Sense K E V I N L. CLAY

How neoliberal capitalism and pedagogical deideologization constrain the radical possibilities of youth activism In I Guess This Is Activism? Kevin L. Clay presents an eye-opening account of his experience with Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) as an Upward Bound educator. Grounded in Paulo Freire’s tradition of critical pedagogy, YPAR has been championed by community-based educators and scholars in the United States as an approach for supporting critical consciousness development and social change with workingclass Black and Latino youth. Clay, however, questions whether YPAR can effectively prepare youths to subvert the systems reproducing their material conditions under neoliberal capitalism. Exposing the political and pedagogical limits of YPAR’s progressive education model, he reveals how omnipresent neoliberalism undermines youths’ radical potential when political education is not prioritized in youth activism.

I Guess This Is Activism? engages Black radical thinkers, including Ella Baker and Fred Hampton, to reveal the faulty assumptions implicit in YPAR’s program. Looking deeply into how he and his students navigated questions of community problems and social change at the twilight of the Obama presidency, Clay demonstrates how, in the absence of political education on the structures of race, class, and capitalism, youth activism is always eclipsed by the common sense of the free market.

As working-class Black and Latino youth inherit a society deeply shaped by neoliberal dogma, I Guess This Is Activism? delivers a muchneeded reexamination of YPAR and visions for the future of youth activist education.

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T HI S I S AC TIVISM ?

YO UTH, POLITIC AL ED UC ATION, A ND SE ON SEN M M O C A RK E T F R E E- M KEVIN L. CLAY

Kevin L. Clay is assistant professor of Black studies in education at Rutgers University. He is coeditor of The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship: Race and Revolt in Education (Minnesota, 2024).

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The Citizen and the Vagabond A Politics of Mobility TIM CRESSWEL L

A POLITICS OF MOBILITY

An expansive treatise on the power relations that govern our movement The Citizen and the Vagabond develops a theoretical approach to the study of mobility and its relationship to the production, maintenance, and transformation of social and cultural hierarchies. Expanding on his foundational work on the subject, Tim Cresswell examines human movement from around the globe to better understand the various forms of inequality and injustice that shape our lives.

Establishing a framework for movement in terms of rhythm, speed, routes, and friction, Cresswell extends these themes to address the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, exploring what this turbulent period reveals to us about the politics of mobility. He demonstrates that while flexibility and ease of movement are typically considered markers of personal freedom, increased mobility brings with it new modes of control and surveillance. As he investigates

the hierarchies and embodied experiences that emerge amid these tensions, Cresswell employs two figures: the citizen, whose mobility within and across borders is expected and accepted, and the vagabond, whose perpetual mobility is deemed suspect and in need of ordering.

In conversation with the work of theorists such as Mimi Sheller, Zygmunt Bauman, Paul Virilio, Henri Lefebvre, Ivan Illich, and Anna Tsing, Cresswell reaches beyond geography to incorporate insights from the humanities and social sciences. An interdisciplinary intervention into the study of mobility and citizenship, The Citizen and the Vagabond provides a new set of coordinates from which to grasp the shifting dynamics of movement and power.

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Deadly Refusals Kurdish Decolonization in Times of Counterterrorism S E R R A M . HAKYEMEZ

Revolutionary desire and decolonial struggle inside the heart of the carceral state Deadly Refusals offers an intimate portrait of Kurdish decolonial struggle within the carceral and legal apparatuses of the Turkish state. Set in the counterterrorism courts and maximumsecurity prisons of Northern Kurdistan, Serra M. Hakyemez’s ethnography examines how prosecuted and imprisoned Kurds from different socioeconomic backgrounds organize in refusal of the criminalization and colonization of their political demands and desires. Through acts of self-criticism, revolutionary education, and comradely care, these prisoners articulate a political subjectivity that challenges the foundations of colonial power.

Based on ethnographic research conducted over a period of seventeen years (including interviews with former prisoners, lawyers, judges, and prosecutors; observations of more than one hundred court hearings; and analysis of prison memoirs, poetry, and legal archives), Deadly Refusals uncovers the mechanisms through which counterterrorism

law reproduces the colonial state. Yet it is not solely a study of repression. Engaging psychoanalytic concepts of subject, desire, and ethics, Hakyemez illuminates how these carceral spaces also become sites of revolutionary responsibility. Here, refusal is not resignation but a political act in which the colonized self is killed—literally or figuratively—to make way for a larger collective subjectivity.

Using the interplay of comradeship and intimacy, political desire and ordinary pleasure, death and love, Deadly Refusals examines how Kurdish political prisoners forge multilayered relations of decolonization in an ongoing psychopolitical struggle. Hakyemez shows how small gestures of withdrawal, restraint, and negation as well as radical acts like language protests, hunger strikes, and death protests become part of a shared struggle for alternative futures that state power cannot fully contain or comprehend.

DEADLY REFUSALS KURDISH DECOLONIZATION IN TIMES OF COUNTERTERRORISM SERRA M. HAKYEMEZ Serra M. Hakyemez is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.

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Racializing the Ummah Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White RHEA RAH MAN R H E A R A H M A N

the Ummah A robust ethnography of Islamic Relief explores difficult questions about the extensive reach of white supremacy An ethnography of Islamic Relief (IR), the largest Islamic NGO based in the West, Racializing the Ummah explores how a Muslim organization can do good in a world that defines Muslimness as less than human. Rooted in more than a decade of international research, Rhea Rahman’s study on the organization’s projects, methods, and limitations reveals how racial capitalism permeates all aspects of humanitarianism.

Beginning with a counterhistory of Muslims in the United Kingdom following World War II, Rahman analyzes IR’s mission and transnational activities in and across places including the UK, South Africa, and Mali in the broader context of global white supremacy.

She shows how IR’s approaches often effectively secularize Islam to evade antiMuslim racism and Islamophobia, implicating

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concepts such as the “good” Muslim aid worker, who complies with War on Terror surveillance while attending to victims of Western colonialism. Meanwhile, Rahman theorizes the tactics of aid workers on the ground, who creatively draw on an Islamic Black radical tradition to drive real change.

Through her engagement with IR and other organizations, Rahman paints a frank, nuanced portrait of the constraints Islamic aid entities face in the effort to disentangle themselves from neocolonialism and Western hegemony.

Yet she also locates the possibility of escape from the all-encompassing dictates of racial capitalism in alternative visions of doing good—ones that are grounded in Islam as the foundation of a revolutionary praxis.

H U M A N I TA R I A N S BEYOND BLACK, BROWN, AND WHITE

Rhea Rahman is assistant professor of anthropology at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Her research has been published in Africa, Religions, and an edited volume of The Anthropology of White Supremacy.

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Murderous Feeling Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature C HAD BENITO IN FAN TE

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler’s Kindred to The Round House by Louise Erdrich, themes of retribution resound throughout the work of renowned Black and Indigenous women and queer authors. Revealing how the Black Power Movement and the American Indian Movement influenced literature from the 1960s onward, Murderous Feeling explores how these writers employ revenge narratives as a response to white supremacy and colonialism.

Chad Benito Infante shows how, rather than using retributive violence to cultivate a heroic, masculine ideal, Black and Native women and queer writers use revenge as a way to raise philosophical questions about justice and the reclamation of power in the face of white supremacy. Pairing canonical texts— including work by James Baldwin, Leslie Marmon Silko, Craig Womack, Toni Morrison, and others—he demonstrates how this

uniquely queer and feminist literary tradition, the “grammar of interrogation,” allows for generative ambivalence and curiosity about the possibilities and failures of violence.

In highlighting these narratives’ potential to steer anticolonial efforts, Murderous Feeling reconceptualizes literary violence not as an individualized act of cleansing but as a tool for revolutionary inquiry.

Feeling GENDER AND RETRIBUTION IN BLACK AND INDIGENOUS LITERATURE

Chad Benito Infante Chad Benito Infante is assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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The Web of Differing Versions Where Africa Ends and America Begins REID GÓM EZ

A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation A bold, experimental intervention in literary and theoretical discourse of colonialism and diaspora, The Web of Differing Versions engages with Leslie Marmon Silko’s 1991 Almanac of the Dead as literature, prophecy, and philosophy. Reid Gómez makes “The Indian Connection” that Silko prophesizes— Land Back!—and offers a prescient response to Silko’s enduring question: who has spiritual possession of the Américas?

Realizing the great capacity of Black and Native studies, Gómez crafts a visionary mode of scholarship that resists acknowledging conceptual, political, spiritual, formal, or linguistic borders. Rather than comparing or separating, she demonstrates how to stop telling things apart: Black|Indian, slavery|colonization, and writing|translation.

Gómez shifts focus from racialized identities to the prophesied world itself, working with

music, literature, and language to elaborate the connections that exist between racialized bodies, land, and sea as she emphasizes the ubiquity of escape, revolt, and beauty/hózhǫ́.

A theoretical composition, this book enacts a practice of re-visioning that uses Silko’s Almanac to challenge the limits of thought, language, and the very idea of scholarship.

Attending the multiplicity of time into times, past into pasts, future into futures, The Web of Differing Versions offers a new grammar for a shared and violent world.

Reid Gómez is assistant professor of gender and women’s studies, American Indian studies, and social, cultural, and critical theory at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

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asian girlhood in the shadows

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of us empire

How the “Asian girl” is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations of the “Asian girl” as lucky objects of humanitarian rescue and rehabilitation have been used to advance America’s imperial ambitions from World War II to the wars in Korea and Viet Nam. In this compelling work, Sharon N. Tran traces the production and instrumentalization of this figure through an examination of state documents, military newspapers, documentary photographs, and other archival materials. Theorizing “Asian girlhood” as a technology of imperial power, Tran exposes how the Asian girl is invoked as a shield that protects the innocence of US empire while she is excluded from innocence herself—relegated instead to a precarious position between child and adult, human and nonhuman, plaything and laborer.

Offering fresh insight into how imperial power operates, Tran analyzes figures such as the Japanese American school-girl in the context of World War II incarceration, the elusive

“camptown girl,” and the objectified image of the “Napalm Girl.” Her innovative feminist approach interrogates the tendency to reclaim innocence for the Asian girl or to reframe her as an empowered woman. She engages the work of writers and artists such as Kiku Hughes, Nora Okja Keller, Aimee Phan, and lê thi diem thúy to demonstrate how Asian American literature offers rich theoretical interventions for critiquing the child–adult dichotomy that underpins key structures of imperial domination, illuminating more capacious conceptions of girlhood.

Restoring the dignity and agency of a figure too often denied both, Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire is a groundbreaking intersectional contribution to studies of gender, race, childhood, and state power.

Sharon N. Tran is assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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Bridging Benjamin A Philosophy of Technology, Place, and Education DOM INIC SMITH

Walter Benjamin reimagined through the forgotten power of radio Philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) has long been recognized for his influence on the fields of literature, film, media studies, critical legal theory, and philosophy. Bringing fresh attention to an often-overlooked aspect of his oeuvre, Bridging Benjamin examines the dozens of radio broadcasts he produced, primarily for children, between 1927 and 1933. Delivered after the academic rejection of his notoriously complex Trauerspiel, these shows became a testing ground for Benjamin’s developing ideas and experimental pedagogy. Though they were cast off as inconsequential by both Benjamin and his contemporaries, Dominic Smith reveals the broadcasts to be a fruitful site for a novel, “derailed” interpretation of Benjamin’s larger body of work.

Reading Benjamin’s radio production as a dynamic site of philosophical experimentation, Smith uses it as a channel and amplifier for

three integral but underappreciated aspects of Benjamin’s work: his philosophies of technology, place, and education. Showing how he used broadcast media to explore the increasing “virtualization” of place in networked society, Bridging Benjamin encourages an embrace of Benjamin in contrast to his divisive historical counterparts in the philosophy of technology, such as Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt.

Interpreting Benjamin’s broadcasts as a form of peripatetic thinking—deeply embedded in place, yet mobile and mediated—Bridging Benjamin offers a compelling model for reassessing attachments to the technologies and practices shaping our contemporary worlds.

BRIDGING BENJAMIN

Dominic Smith

A Philosophy of Technology, Place, and Education

Dominic Smith is senior lecturer of philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He is author of Exceptional Technologies: A Continental Philosophy of Technology and coeditor of Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies.

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Black Light Revealing the Hidden History of Photography and Cinema C HR I S TOPHE WAL L-R OMAN A

A radical assessment of the racial motives underlying the conception of photography and cinema Conventional histories have long traced the origins of photography and cinema to the goal of reproducing the visible world. Black Light offers a radical counter to this understanding.

Investigating the optical, cosmological, and racial thought that surrounded their conception, Christophe Wall-Romana argues that these media developed out of a desire to visualize what cannot be seen.

Taking as its starting point the concurrent invention of the telescope and industrialization of the transatlantic slave trade, Black Light shows how photography and cinema are entangled with two key preoccupations of the Enlightenment: visualizing the mysteries of the cosmos and managing Blackness.

Wall-Romana uses literary and technological sources to demonstrate how racial and astronomical thinking interwove throughout the long development of our modern visual media. Retracing the impulses behind nonmimetic photoimaging and dynamic

modeling, he exposes the racial underpinnings of research on photosensitive compounds such as silver nitrate and the racist lenses applied in post-Copernican cosmology.

Black Light charts the pivotal period from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries when Europeans were reckoning with “multiple worlds” and natural philosophy was giving way to “mechanical objectivity.”

Wall-Romana shows how engagement with the nature of light was always entangled with racist discourses on Blackness—especially after the 1801 discovery of the invisible spectrum and its paradox of “black light.”

Deprovincializing media archaeology, this book presents a groundbreaking historical framework with which to reenvision our dominant modes of seeing and understanding the world.

Christophe Wall-Romana is professor of French in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry and Jean Epstein: Corporeal Cinema and Film Philosophy and translator of Jean Epstein’s The Intelligence of a Machine as well as Gilbert Simondon’s Imagination and Invention, both published by the University of Minnesota Press.

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A bold new understanding of montage and French cinematic history Amid the tumult of change that swept through French society in the wake of World War II, a trio of visionary filmmakers sought to make meaning of the chaos by revitalizing a common method: montage. Revealing Nicole Védrès, Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker as more than just groundbreaking auteurs, Ivan Cerecina shows how their collective infusion of montage with avant-garde aesthetics renewed the art of cinema while helping France reckon with its past and imagine its future.

Assembly Lines challenges a dominant story of postwar French film, championed by critics at important film journals like Cahiers du cinéma, that has generally centered realist film aesthetics. Working against this tendency, Cerecina shows how Védrès, Resnais, and Marker revitalized montage as a technique in response to the crises of the times, using it to process the ravages of the recent past, expose hidden connections, and uncover signs

of coming catastrophe. Wedding insightful analyses of films and French cultural history with writings from lesser-heard voices like André Malraux, Jacques Brunius, and Henri Langlois, Assembly Lines illuminates obscured networks of critics, filmmakers, and historians to reshape our conception of French film and documentary. Meanwhile, Cerecina’s in-depth archival research unearths vital documents, including correspondence and production notes on Védrès’s Paris 1900 and Resnais’s Night and Fog. More than a cinematic retrospective, Cerecina’s investigation of montage is also a call to action today as contemporary crises prompt reevaluation of our cultural histories.

Assembly Lines exemplifies a powerful, future-oriented practice of historical reflection with implications that go well beyond the study of film.

ASSEMBLY LINES MONTAGE IN POSTWAR FRENCH FILM

Ivan Cerecina teaches film studies at The University of Sydney. His work has been published in Screen, Camera Obscura, and Framework.

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On Life Support Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s

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eco-dystopian cinema in the long 1970 s

Finding strategies for today’s environmental movement in classic science fiction films What can science fiction film tell us about the course of the modern ecological movement?

On Life Support traces how the environmental concerns of the 1970s were embedded in the eco-dystopian cinema of the era—and considers its implications for ecological thought and activism today.

Illuminating the patterns that shape our thinking about nonhuman nature, Matthew I. Thompson pairs iconic films such as Soylent Green and Silent Running with the transformational environmentalist texts that inspired them and kick-started the modern environmental movement, including Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Thompson examines this confluence of literature and cinema to show how,

as they translated environmentalism for Hollywood’s audiences, these movies distilled the movement’s concepts into a form that revealed their inherent contradictions.

A sensitive analysis of the tensions that complicate environmentalist praxis—especially between desire and fear in the activist impulse—On Life Support offers a timely critique of the politics of environmental containment and control, calling instead for a politics of interconnection and contamination.

It is, after all, by inviting complexity and chaos that we begin to undermine the myth of human mastery, letting nature flourish on its own terms.

Matthew I. Thompson is assistant professor of film studies at the University of Regina in Canada.

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Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities ALAN LIU, UR S ZULA PAWLIC K A-DEG E R , A N D J A ME S S MI T H I E S , EDITORS

How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our world Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection.

Contributors: Anne Beaulieu, U of Groningen; Kyle Booten, U of Connecticut; Ann Borda, U of Melbourne; Susan Brown, U of Guelph;

Toby Burrows, U of Western Australia; Ashley Caranto Morford, Weber State U; Javier Cha, U of Hong Kong; Jing Chen, Nanjing U; Arianna Ciula, King’s College London; Maya Dodd, FLAME U, Pune, India; Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, U of London; Allan Gomez, Philly Community Wireless; Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue U; Matthew Hockenberry, Fordham U; Arun Jacob, U of Toronto; Mike Jones, U of Tasmania; Lucie Kolb, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW; Ian M. Miller, St. John’s U, New York; Sylvia K. Miller, Duke U; Sarah Montoya, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow; Saumyaa Naidu, independent researcher; Sharika Parmar, FLAME U, Pune, India; Kush Patel, Srishti Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru; Miriam Posner, UCLA; Puthiya Purayil Sneha, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad; Paul Spence, King’s College London; Lik Hang Tsui, City U of Hong Kong; Deb Verhoeven, U of Alberta; Miguel Vieira, King’s College London; Devren Washington, Philly Community Wireless; Alex WermerColan, Temple U and Philly Community Wireless; Darren Wershler, Concordia U; Grant Wythoff, Princeton U and Philly Community Wireless.

Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies, Editors

Alan Liu is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of several books, including The Laws of Cool.

Urszula Pawlicka-Deger is research manager in the Discovery Research program at Wellcome Trust. She is coeditor of Digital Humanities and Laboratories.

James Smithies is professor of digital humanities at the Australian National University and director of the HASS Digital Research Hub. He is author of The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern.

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Olfactory Worldmaking

Divest An Essay on Political Masochism

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STEVEN SWARBRI CK

Exploring the power of smell to build connections and transform our world

A manifesto for liberating desire from the grip of capital and colonial violence in Palestine

Smell is a vital, if underappreciated, medium through which we inhabit and imagine the world. In Olfactory Worldmaking, Hsuan L. Hsu traces how olfactory experience communicates across visceral, material, and affective registers to offer new ways of relating, which challenge the extractive logics of racial and colonial capitalism. Blending environmental humanities, sensory studies, and critical ethnic studies, the book highlights how scent animates suppressed histories and marginalized memories.

A socially engaged psychoanalysis of 2024’s widespread student uprisings in support of Palestine, Divest posits that masochism, as theorized by Freud in his later years, is a fundamental structure at the heart of anticapitalist and anticolonial resistance. Conceptualizing masochism as a radical form of divestment, Steven Swarbrick theorizes the affective economies of solidarity, self-sacrifice, and collective struggle. Through vivid film readings and sharp critique of state and university violence, Swarbrick explores the emancipatory potential of masochism in the protest movement and the sadistic machinery of capitalist governance it has laid bare.

Hsu theorizes olfaction as a speculative, reparative practice. Examining projects from historical novels, memoirs, and speculative fiction to conceptual art and experimental perfumes, he reveals how these works mobilize scent to imagine alternative ways of sensing, relating, and creating more equitably livable worlds.

Hsuan L. Hsu is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization; The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics; and Air Conditioning.

Divest is both a politically urgent manifesto and a theoretical companion to the global movement for Palestinian liberation. Asserting that the politics of left-wing solidarity must reckon with the libidinal investments that sustain both power and resistance, this bold volume argues that divestment from global capitalism may begin with a revolution in our psychic attachments.

Steven Swarbrick is associate professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY. He is author of The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton

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Vector Media LEONARDO IMPETT AN D FABIAN O FFE R T INTRODUCTION BY JOHAN N A DR U C K E R

Dispelling the notion of “generative” AI Neural networks are designed to dissolve all media into the vector space—a universal space of commensurability. In Vector Media, Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert parse theories of automatic vision to trace contemporary artificial intelligence’s technical ideology of epistemic reduction, where sensory data is turned into abstracted forms of meaning. Under this regime, bias is not just a question of what is represented but of the logic of representation itself. Drawing on Phil Agre’s notion of a critical technical practice, Vector Media reveals how artificial intelligence systems embed new epistemologies of media beneath the surface of their architectures.

Analyzing the techniques underpinning large multimodal artificial intelligence models like DALL-E, Midjourney, Flux, or Stable Diffusion, Impett and Offert offer the concept of neural exchange value: the value cultural artifacts

acquire not through meaning or context but through their capacity to function as vectors.

In such a system, commensurability becomes a condition of existence: what matters is not what something is but that it can be embedded. Rather than focusing solely on datasets, Vector Media proposes a critical study of vector spaces—and the machine cultures they produce—as a necessary complement to prevailing approaches in AI critique.

Leonardo Impett is assistant professor in digital humanities at the University of Cambridge and leader of the machine visual culture research group at Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History.

Fabian Offert is assistant professor of the history and theory of the digital humanities and director of the Center for the Humanities and Machine Learning at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Johanna Drucker is Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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