RIDING
Riding from the mountains of Iran to the beaches of California, Pardis Mahdavi meditates on the lessons learned over a lifetime of horseback riding and the falling, failing, and joy it brings.
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Raving (4, 2023) | McKenzie Wark
What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New Yorks thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techno, first and always a Black music, invites fresh sonic
WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS
In her debut poetry collection, Therà Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling, crafting and questioning the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we want to be.
Grime Glitter and Glass
In Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture. Focusing on the multimedia art of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey
Gut Feminism
Elizabeth A. Wilson shakes feminist theory from its resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data and urges that now is the time for feminism to critically engage with biology. Doing so will reanimate feminist theory, strengthening its ability to addre
The Body Multiple (4, 2003) | Annemarie Mol
The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe a
Touching Feeling (4, 2003) | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has deve
Vibrant Matter (4, 2010) | Jane Bennett
In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recogni
What Animals Teach Us About Politics
In this concise book, the noted theorist Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal. " Treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics, which he uses as the basis of an expanded notion of the political.
THE NECROMANTIC STATE SPECTRAL REMAINS IN THE AFTERGLOW OF V
Irina R. Troconis takes Hugo Chávezâs ghostly presence in contemporary Venezuela as a case study to analyze how, in moments of crises of authority and legitimacy, the state mobilizes spectral power to negotiate the terms of its survival.
Between Banat (4, 2023) | Mejdulene Bernard Shomali
In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film. Moving from The Thousand and One Nights and the Golden Era of Egyptian cinema to contemp
Brutalism (4, 2024) | Achille Mbembe
In Brutalism , eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates
The Queer Art of Failure (4, 2011) | Judith Halberstam,Jack Halberstam
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural
Spill (4, 2016) | Alexis Pauline Gumbs
In Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered
Necropolitics (4, 2019) | Achille Mbembe
In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of
The Ocean Reader
From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts. The Ocean Reader charts
Skin Shows
In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary hor
The Bars Are Ours
Gay bars have operated as the most visible institutions of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States for the better part of a century, from before gay liberation until after their assumed obsolescence. In The Bars Are Ours Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panor
Oceaning
Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more, drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process, new dependencies between nature, technology, and humans emerge, and a
The Fame of Gawa (4, 1992) | Nancy D. Munn
Deals with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring.
On Being Included (4, 2012) | Sara Ahmed
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity wor
M Archive (4, 2018) | Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive-the second book in a planned experimental triptych-is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Enga
Dub (4, 2020) | Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherw
The Personality of Power (4, 2025) | Brian Massumi
I am the Chosen One! With this exclamation Donald Trump crowns the national exceptionalism his base upholds with a claim of personal exceptionalism. He leaves no doubt as to the emotional note: I am your vengeance! He personifies reaction for the masses.
Pink Noises (4, 2010) | Tara Rodgers
Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an exten
Living a Feminist Life (4, 2017) | Sara Ahmed
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poet
Visual Time (4, 2013) | Keith Moxey
Examining the notion of time in art history, Keith Moxey argues that looking at a work of art creates an experience of time for the viewer distinct from the work's place in the history of art.
Punishing the Poor (4, 2009) | Loic Wacquant
A sociologist explains how over the past two decades neoliberal societies have sought to control the poor through a combination of penal sanction and welfare supervision.
Staying with the Trouble (4, 2016) | Donna J. Haraway
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene
Experimenting with Ethnography (4, 2021) |
Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors-who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions-enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, d
Marx for Cats (4, 2023) | Leigh Claire La Berge
At the outset of Marx for Cats , Leigh Claire La Berge declares that all history is the history of cat struggle. Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal a
A Book of Waves (4, 2023) | Stefan Helmreich
In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United
A Different Light (4, 2012) | Parvati Nair
A Different Light is the first in-depth study of the work of SebastiÃo Salgado, widely considered the greatest documentary photographer of our time. For more than three decades, Salgado has produced thematic photo-essays depicting the massive human displa
Female Masculinity (4, 2019) | Jack Halberstam
In this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two centuries. Demonstrating how female masculinity
On the Inconvenience of Other People (4, 2022) | Lauren Berlant
In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attach
Writing in Space, 19732019 (4, 2020) | Lorraine O'Grady
Writing in Space, 1973-2019 gathers the writings of conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady, who for over forty years has investigated the complicated relationship between text and image. A firsthand account of O'Grady's wide-ranging practice, this volume cont
Fantasies of Nina Simone
Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Ale
The Cunning of Gender Violence
The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violence against women and gender-based violence constitutes a highly visible and powerful agenda enshrined in int
Black and Blue (4, 2012) | Carol Mavor
Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations for and subjects of Carol Mavor's e
Meeting the Universe Halfway (4, 2007) | Karen Barad
Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory
Journeys Through the Russian Empire (3, 2020) | William Craft Brumfield
At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was undergoing rapid change due to industrialization and the building of railroads. Between 1903 and 1916 Prokudin-Gorsky, who devel
Your History With Me The Films Of Penny Siopis
The critics, scholars, curators, artists, and filmmakers in this volume examine the films of Penny Siopis, showing how they remake the possibility of film as a mode of experimentation and intervention. Penny Siopis is internationally acclaimed for her pat