University of Minnesota Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/university-of-minnesota-press/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png University of Minnesota Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/university-of-minnesota-press/ 32 32 In Praise of Search Tools https://www.publicbooks.org/in-praise-of-search-tools/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 16:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46891 For centuries, book-makers, printers, furniture-makers and, now, programmers have worked to answer: how do you find what you need in a book?

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]]> The Planet Needs Collective Action—Not Tech https://www.publicbooks.org/the-planet-needs-collective-action-not-tech/ Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:00:35 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45072 Digital tech cannot stop climate change merely by “greening” individual consumption.[none-for-homepage]

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]]> Can Anthropology Look to the Future? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-anthropology-look-to-the-future/ Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:00:55 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45051 Transhumanists want to transcend humanity. Where does that leave anthropology?

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]]> Public Picks 2021 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2021/ Fri, 21 May 2021 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43288 Each May we send our readers into summer with a curated list of the titles that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us most over the past year (or so).

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]]> Spatial Abolition and Disability Justice https://www.publicbooks.org/spatial-abolition-and-disability-justice/ Wed, 05 May 2021 15:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=42901 Revealing the multiple histories of disability justice can expand how we think of and design the places we build.

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]]> How to Build a World https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-build-a-world/ Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:00:20 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=41309 Storytelling like that of Ursula K. Le Guin or Hayao Miyazaki reveals how real-world politics is similarly an act of collective “world building.”

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]]> Anticipating Extinction in the Tales of Two Fish https://www.publicbooks.org/anticipating-extinction-in-the-tales-of-two-fish/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:00:35 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40516 Deciding to not order the tuna or eel at a restaurant won’t save those dying species. But imagining a new kind of “multispecies thriving” might.

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]]> Longing for the Writer’s Space https://www.publicbooks.org/longing-for-the-writers-space/ Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:00:20 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39163 How should readers and scholars look on the tangible traces writers leave behind?

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]]> Tales from the Crypto https://www.publicbooks.org/tales-from-the-crypto/ Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36490 Techno-utopians rarely acknowledge that untraceable money transfers support a world of kleptocrats, tax havens, and dark-money politics.

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]]> A Just Future for Cycling? https://www.publicbooks.org/a-just-future-for-cycling/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=30993 I occupy three precarious categories: South Florida resident, humanities professor, and cyclist. The last, however, is a condition afforded to me because of ...

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