Diana Taylor offers the theory of presente as a model of standing by and with victims of structural and endemic violence by being physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done.
Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore how and why the contemporary international art market continues to overlook, devalue, and marginalize Latinx art and artists.
Eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers a previously unknown history of the influences and creative process of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings.
Prompting a reevaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth century art history, Mapping Modernisms provides an analysis of how indigenous artists and art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas became recognized as modern.
In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the historical and contemporary use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black... Læs mere
Saiba Varma explores spaces of military and humanitarian care in Indian-controlled Kashmir—the world's most militarized place—to examine the psychic, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence.
Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region, showing how vulnerability to... Læs mere
Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global North are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global South.
Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document.
Features the essays that examine philosophical issues concerning the concepts of poesis and praxis relevant to Marx's ideas of production.
Jonathan Sterne shows that understanding the historical meaning of the MP3, the world's most common format for recorded audio, involves rethinking the place of digital technologies in the broader universe of twentieth-century communication history.
Ayse Çaglar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the lived experiences of migrants in three cities struggling to regain their former... Læs mere