forerunners: ideas first Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works, published by the University of Minnesota Press. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
The Racial Cage Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Amade Aouatef M'charek and Anne Pollock A collaborative conversation across continents, this work examines the racial cage as an important part of the practice of social division and bodily containment. The deeply considered result is an empirical and theoretical approach to biohumanities that productively interrogates its linkages to critical theories of race and racism. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS July 2025 116pp 9781517918996 £9.00 PB
Ungendering Menstruation Ela Przybylo Drawing on their own experiences as a toxic shock survivor and a menstrual pain and period dysphoria sufferer, Ela Przybyło questions why and how menstrual pain needs to be incorporated into discussions of gender, embodiment, and disability. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS May 2025 116pp 9781517918378 £9.00 PB
Proposals for a Caring Economy Edited by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer Moving between examples focused on immigration and agriculture, patients and art audiences, green energy transitions and unhoused people, prison abolitionists and clients of domestic violence services, the contributors here argue that we need new ways to conceptualize care and its applications. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS June 2025 106pp 9781517918477 £9.00 PB
Humanities in the Time of AI Laurent Dubreuil If humanistic research consists of the generation of consensus positions, simple expression, summarized texts, or passable translations, then we have arrived at the place where AI is able to accomplish these different missions to a convincing degree. Laurent Dubreuil examines why AI offers a chance for the humanities to strengthen their relevance and significance. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS April 2025 1 b&w illus. 104pp 9781517919047 £9.00 PB
Coralations
Nonbinary Jane Austen
Melody Jue
Chris Washington
Through thought-provoking analyses of photography, science fiction, visual art, and scientific images, Melody Jue renews our curiosity and broadens our understanding of corals beyond the dominant narratives about their endangerment. Coralations shows how paying attention to particular corals can change what we take for granted.
Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently than we have classically understood her: rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, the author theorizes how Austen envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that we can supposedly see solidifying in the eighteenth century. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS February 2025 6 b&w illus. 88pp 9781517918125 £9.00 PB
January 2025 106pp 9781517917586 £9.00 PB
Speculative Whiteness
Futures of the Sun
Science Fiction and the Alt-Right Jordan S. Carroll
The Struggle over Renewable Life Imre Szeman
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled with Aryan supermen and all-white space colonies. Speculative Whiteness traces these ideas through the entangled histories of science fiction culture and white supremacist politics.
Imre Szeman explains how and why key players are working hard to make sure a greener, cleaner future will look much like the world we live in today. He examines the rhetoric, ideology, and politics of liberal nationalists intent on fighting a war against climate change, billionaire solar entrepreneurs who believe only in themselves, and the populist far right who want no change at all.
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October 2024 120pp 9781517917081 £9.00 PB
October 2024 108pp 9781517917692 £9.00 PB
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