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Each of the thirty suggested “loan- words” helps us imagine how to adapt and even flourish in the face of socioecological adversity. 1 $17.50 $24.95 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0590-3 2 $70.00 $100.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0589-7 344 pages • 14 color images • 2019 Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games ALENDA Y. CHANG “Alenda Y. Chang’s gorgeously penned Playing Nature charts an ecocritical approach to video games and design thinking, exploring much more than simply how the ecological has been imaged in games. Essential for designers, players, and critics.” —Soraya Murray, author of On Video Games 3 $19.00 $27.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0632-0 4 $75.50 $108.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0631-3 312 pages • 34 b&w images • 2019 • Electronic Mediations Series, volume 58 █ Literary Criticism/Cultural Studies 5 Scholarship on monsters and their meaning— across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time The Monster Theory Reader JEFFREY ANDREW WEINSTOCK, EDITOR As long as there have been monsters, there have been attempts to make sense of them. Editor Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock prepares the way with a genealogy of monster theory, traveling from the earliest explanations of monsters through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and cultural studies, to the development of monster theory per se— and including Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s foundational essay “Monster Theory (Seven Theses),” reproduced here in its entirety. Including the most important proponents of monster theory and its progenitors, from Sigmund Freud to Julia Kristeva to J. Halberstam, Donna Haraway, Barbara Creed, and Stephen T. Asma—as well as hard- er-to-find contributions such as Robin Wood’s and Masahiro Mori’s— this is the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on monsters and monstrosity across disciplines and methods ever assembled. 5 $24.50 $35.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0525-5 6 $98.00 $140.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0524-8 576 pages • 33 b&w images • 2020 • List of contributors: z.umn.edu/tmtr 6 Literary Criticism/Philosophy █ “This fascinating book should be read by medievalists, posthumanists, and everyone in between.” —Erica Fudge, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow How Not to Make a Human Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters KARL STEEL Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. Recuperating the Middle Ages as a lost opportunity for de- centering humanity, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, the ecological implications of funeral practices, and the “bare life” of oysters from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with overlooked cultural models to challenge human and other supremacies at their roots. 7 $19.00 $27.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0527-9 8 $75.50 $108.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0526-2 272 pages • 9 b&w images • 2019 █ Literary Criticism/Childhood Studies 7 “Maria Sachiko Cecire helps us to see the landscape of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, of Diana Wynne Jones and Philip Pullman, and understand how that landscape became universal, the ways it buoys us up and the ways that it fails us.” —Neil Gaiman Re-Enchanted The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century MARIA SACHIKO CECIRE Re-Enchanted argues that magic, medievalism, and childhood hold the paradoxical ability to re-enchant modern life. 9 $19.00 $27.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0658-0 10 $75.50 $108.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0657-3 360 pages • 2019 Pipers at the Gates of Dawn The Wisdom of Children’s Literature JONATHAN COTT FOREWORD BY MARIA POPOVA Here are Jonathan Cott’s essay-interviews with Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), Maurice Sendak, William Steig, Astrid Lindgren, Chinua Achebe, P. L. Travers, and with Iona and Peter Opie, the great scholars of the lore, games, and language of schoolchildren. 11 $14.00 $19.95 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0932-1 360 pages • 50 b&w images • Available April 2020 8 Philosophy/Animals and Society/Posthumanities Series █ Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology Thinking Plant Animal Human Encounters with Communities of Difference DAVID WOOD David Wood was a founding member of the 1970s Oxford Group of philosophers promoting animal rights; he also directed Ecology Ac- tion (UK). Thinking Plant Animal Human is the first collection of this major philosopher’s essays on “animals,” bringing together his discus- sions of nonhuman life, including the classic “Thinking with Cats.” Exploring our connections with cats, goats, and sand crabs, Thinking Plant Animal Human introduces the idea of “kinnibalism” (the eating of mammals is eating our own kin) and explores the place of animals in art and children’s stories. Finally, and with a special focus on trees, the book delves into remarkable contemporary efforts to rescue plants from philosophical neglect and to rethink and reevaluate their status. 12 $19.50 $28.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0722-8 13 $78.50 $112.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0721-1 272 pages • 18 b&w images • Available June 2020 Posthumanities Series, volume 56 █ Philosophy/Theory/Posthumanities Series 9 The Elements of Foucault GREGG LAMBERT The history around the critical reception of Michel Foucault’s published writings is troubled, according to Gregg Lambert, especially in light of controversy surrounding his late lectures on biopolitics and neoliberal governmentality. In this book, Lambert distills Foucault’s thought into its most basic compo- nents to more fully understand its method. 14 $16.00 $23.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0878-2 15 $64.50 $92.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0877-5 144 pages • Available May 2020 • Posthumanities Series, volume 55 Bleak Joys Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility MATTHEW FULLER AND OLGA GORIUNOVA A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life. “A tour de force—a survey of some of the most important ideas and environmental issues of our times.” —Eben Kirksey, author of Emergent Ecologies 16 $18.00 $26.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0553-8 17 $73.00 $104.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0552-1 224 pages • 2019 • Posthumanities Series, volume 53 Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter ALEXANDER WILSON “A nuanced engagement with science, technology, and art that is largely missing from contemporary debates, exploring the significance of aesthetics in the aftermath of neomaterialist and nonrepresentational theories of perception, cognition, and in- telligence.”—Luciana Parisi, Goldsmiths, University of London 18 $19.50 $28.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0660-3 19 $78.50 $112.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0659-7 256 pages • 2019 • Posthumanities Series, volume 51 10 Philosophy/Theory █ An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times Invoking Hope Theory and Utopia in Dark Times PHILLIP E. WEGNER What does any particular theory allow us to do? What is the value of doing so? And who benefits? Phillip E. Wegner argues for the undiminished importance of the practices of theory, utopia, and a deep and critical reading of our current situation of what Bertolt Brecht refers to as finsteren Zeiten, or dark times. With Invoking Hope, Wegner provides an innovative lens for considering the rise of right-wing populism and the current crisis in democracy. 20 $19.50 $28.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0886-7 21 $78.50 $112.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0885-0 264 pages • 15 b&w images • Available June 2020 Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment RYAN HEDIGER Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S.