University of Minnesota Press - Böcker

Documentary has once again emerged as one of the most vital cultural forms, whether seen in cinemas or inside the home, as digital, film, or video. In Recording Reality, Desiring the Real, Elizabeth Cowie looks at the history of documentary and it...

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The deep and personal storytold through history, poetry, and imagesof the forced displacement of the Smi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today More than a hundred years have passed since the Smi were...

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An international best seller dissects the globalization of penal policies made in U.S.A. as part of the spread of neoliberalism In the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offen...

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Translated and with an Introduction by Daniel W. Smith Afterword by Tom Conley Gilles Deleuze had several paintings by Francis Bacon hanging in his Paris apartment, and the painters method and style as well as his motifs of seriality, difference, ...

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A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the godfather of the Norwegian troll Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calling to the child in all of us. Here the Hidden Fol...

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Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from Americas heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter Pyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the ...

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For the first three decades of the twentieth century, the Marchesa Luisa Casati astounded Europe. She was infamous for her evening strollsnaked beneath her furs, parading cheetahs on diamond-studded leashes. Artists such as Man Ray and Augustus Jo...

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Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy n...

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Considers the meaning of gender in an African context. The woman question, this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers...

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The raw material and interviews behind Anthony Scadutos iconic biography of Bob Dylan draw an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the singer-songwriter who defined his era When Anthony Scadutos Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography was first publishe...

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The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future....

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At the Borders of Sleep is a unique exploration of the connections between literature and the liminal states between waking and sleepingfrom falling asleep and waking up, to drowsiness and insomnia, to states in which sleeping and waking mix. Delv...

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Tourists climb the Eiffel Tower to see Paris. Parisians know that to really see the city you must descend into the metro. In this revelatory book, Marc Auge takes readers below Paris in a work that is both an ethnography of the city and a personal...

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The African American community. The black position. In accounts of black politics after the Second World War, these phrases reflect how the African American perspective generally appeared consistent, coherent, and unified. In Racial Democracy and ...

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Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinction As global rates of plant and animal extinctions mount, anxieties about the future of the earths ecosystems are fueling ever more ambitious efforts...

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Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from Americas heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter Pyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the ...

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Neocybernetics and Narrative opens a new chapter in Bruce Clarkes project of rethinking narrative and media through systems theory. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects, media, significations, and the social, this study demonstrates second-o...

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A critical examination of the figure of the neural network as it mediates neuroscientific and computational discourses and technical practices Neural Networks proposes to reconstruct situated practices, social histories, mediating techniques, and ...

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A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an a...

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An expansive and revelatory study of Robert Smithsons life and the hidden influences on his iconic creations This first biography of the major American artist Robert Smithson, famous as the creator of the Spiral Jetty, deepens understanding of his...

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What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a color, a sentiment, a human being. Each in turn comes under scrutiny in this exhilarating dialogue between two of the most interesting thinkers working in philosophy and architecture today. From su...

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In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the citys Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reor...

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Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraways Cyborg Manifesto is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challengesof human and machine but also of gender, class, ra...

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Tracing how the Great Replacement narrative has shaped far-right extremism and propelled its dangerous political projects and acts of violence The Great Replacement narrative, which imagines that historic white majorities are being intentionally r...

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A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations Serving as both a guide and companion publication to the conceptual art project of the same name, The Lichen Museum explores how the physiological charac...

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Exposes complex intersections between genders and other identities in medieval cultures. Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about "men" and "women" of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how t...

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Influential philosopher Michel Serres's foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres's arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in p...

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The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there At home in Norway it is eight oclock on Christmas Eve night, but ahead, at the AmundsenScott base that has been visible for hours, it is already early in th...

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