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What would an education beyond learning look like?
In a time when online classrooms and meetings have become both indispensable and mundane features of the university, STUDIOUS DRIFT asks: What kind of university becom...
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature
The new book ‘Cacaphonies’ takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. In a stark challenge to the tendency to view 20th- and 21st-century French literat...
Sylvain Tesson's wandering journey of solitude through the countryside of France
ON THE WANDERING PATHS is Sylvain Tesson’s literary adventure and philosophical reflection during a three-month journey of solitude and personal contemplation while wa...
Architecture and Objects with Graham Harman (Art after Nature 3)
Exploring new concepts of the relationship between form and function while thinking through object-oriented ontology (OOO), Graham Harman (ARCHITECTURE AND OBJECTS) de...
Algorithms of Education: Data and its role in education policy
How do educational policy studies need to shift to remain adequate to the emergence of powerful forms of technology? In ALGORITHMS OF EDUCATION, Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam...
A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it
“Capitalism defeated traditional societies because it was more exciting than they were. But now there is something more exciting than capitalism: its destruction.” In ...
Side Affects: Being trans and feeling bad with Hil Malatino and Zena Sharman
In SIDE AFFECTS, Hil Malatino opens a conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rate amid the ...
Activist archiving in the age of AIDS.
What are we leaving behind, forgetting, and obscuring as we remember AIDS activist pasts? VIRAL CULTURES is the first book to critically examine the archives that have...
Allotment Stories: Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien
Land privatization has been a longstanding and ongoing settler colonial process separating Indigenous peoples from their traditional homelands, with devastating conseq...
Saving Animals: On sanctuary, care, ethics
Elan Abrell is author of SAVING ANIMALS: the first major ethnography to focus on the ethical issues animating the establishment of animal sanctuaries and animal rescue...
Making creative laborers for a precarious economy.
Josef Nguyen’s THE DIGITAL IS KID STUFF narrates the developmental arc of a future creative laborer: from playing Minecraft, to DIY innovation with Make magazine, to s...
Eco Soma with Petra Kuppers (Art after Nature 2)
Eco Soma proposes an art/life method of sensory tuning to the inside and the outside simultaneously. Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied respo...
Art and Posthumanism with Cary Wolfe (Art after Nature Part 1)
How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the “bio” of biopolitics and bioart? One of the foremost theorists of posthumanism, Cary Wolfe argues for the reconceptu...
Life in Plastic: Plastic's Capitalism (Part 2)
Plastics have been a defining feature of contemporary life since at least the 1960s. Yet our proliferating use of plastics has also triggered catastrophic environmenta...
Life in Plastic: Petrochemical Fantasies and Synthetic Sensibilities (Part 1)
Plastics have been a defining feature of contemporary life since at least the 1960s. Yet our proliferating use of plastics has also triggered catastrophic environmenta...
LIVE: We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World
In inspired and incisive writing the contributors to WE ARE MEANT TO RISE speak unvarnished truths not only to the original and pernicious racism threaded through the ...
What society gets wrong about transracial adoption: Sun Yung Shin, Shannon Gibney, and JaeRan Kim.
Outsiders Within is a volume of essays, fiction, poetry, and art by transracially adopted writers from around the world who tackle difficult questions about how to sur...
How institutionalized racism shapes health in the 21st century: Anne Pollock with Ruha Benjamin
SICKENING is a book that examines the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Author Anne Pollock of King’s College London takes...
Balzac in translation: Portraits of a turbulent 19th-century France with remarkable contemporary resonances
”Adapting Balzac is no small feat for any filmmaker” (Variety)—or any translator. LOST ILLUSIONS and LOST SOULS are two newly translated volumes in Honoré de Balzac’s ...
How the ordinary postwar home constructed race in America
Dianne Harris offers a rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture in her book LITTLE WHITE HOUSES, which examines how postwar media representati...
Race and the Politics of Precarity in the United States
Race plays a fundamental role in naturalizing social, political, and economic inequalities in the United States. Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph Lowndes are here wit...
Korean and Vietnamese adoptees on the intimate racialized politics of transracial adoption
The dynamics of adoptee communities have shifted in the decades since the first edition of OUTSIDERS WITHIN was published in 2006, yet the volume continues to provide ...
Attending to body and earth in distress.
What if we attended to an ailing ecosystem just as we would a body in the throes of a chronic medical condition? Ranae Lenor Hanson’s memoir WATERSHED encourages us to...
The Migrant's Paradox, with Suzanne M. Hall, Tariq Jazeel, Huda Tayob, and Les Back
The Migrant’s Paradox connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how “race” maps onto place across the globe, state, and street. Suzanne Hall exam...
The Filing Cabinet: How information became a "thing"
Craig Robertson’s THE FILING CABINET explores how this now-neglected artifact profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, ...
Planetary probiotics and Gaia’s variants.
Jamie Lorimer’s THE PROBIOTIC PLANET calls for a rethinking of artificial barriers between science and policy and a sweeping overview of diverse probiotic approaches. ...
Capture: The nineteenth-century landscape and wildlife in modernity.
CAPTURE is a book that reveals how the drive to contain and record disappearing animals was a central feature and organizing pursuit of the nineteenth-century US cultu...
Who is welcome? Hospitality and contemporary art.
Amid xenophobic challenges to America’s core value of welcoming the tired and the poor, Irina Aristarkhova calls for new forms of hospitality in her engagement with th...