Böcker utgivna av University of Minnesota Press

For the first time in English, the father of the shopping mall" tells his life story"

Jaroslav Andel is curator of the exhibition Back to the Sandbox, former artistic director of the DOX Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, and former director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of the National Gallery in Prague. He has written more than forty books and exhibition catalogues on modern and contemporary art.

Automation,animation, and ecosystems are terms of central media-philosophical concern intoday's society of humans and machines. This volume describes the socialconsequences of machines as a mediating concept for the animation of life andautomation of technology.

Today,communication unfolds merely between two or more conscious entities but oftenincludes an invisible third party. Inspired by this drastic shift, this volumeuncovers new meanings of what it means 'to communicate.'

Thispolitically and historically attuned media theory of markets is concerned withcontemporary phenomena such as high-frequency trading and cryptocurrencies. Bybringing together key thinkers of economic studies with German media theory, itdescribes the central role of the media specificity of markets in new detail.

"Anthropocene Poetics looks at contemporary anglophone poetry from Anthropocene, Plantationocene, and Multispecies perspectives, and sets out a poetics for thinking about 'geologic intimacy,' the deeply relational reality of 'sacrifice zones,' and processes of kin-making in a time of extinction"

Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan The term "global village"-coined in the 1960s by Marshall McLuhan-has persisted into the twenty-first century as a key trope of techno-humanitarian discourse, casting economic and technical transformations in a utopian light. Against that tendency, this book excavates

"Herwath Walden's Der Sturm--the journal, gallery, performance venue, press, theater, bookstore, and art school in Berlin (1910-1932)--has never before been the subject of a book-length study in English. In Four Metaphors of Modernism, Jenny Anger positions Der Sturm at the center of the avant-garde and as an integral part of Euro-American modern art, theory, and practice"--

The further adventures of a boy discovering the challenges and the humor of a log drive in Minnesota's north woods in 1899

Exploring the idea that plants can think, feel, and communicate as a way of reconfiguring our relationship with the natural world

The unusual gravity-defying first act of improvisational theater's founding father; the fun of storytelling with the wry insights and observations of growing up in show business

Film studies meets philosophy as never before

The first architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem, revealing the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city