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Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times

"Faculties is for anyone who wants institutional change and hasn’t fallen prey to cynicism or defeatism." - Michael Roth, President, Wesleyan University

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Featured Books

Anna Murray Douglass

Celeste-Marie Bernier

“In this extraordinary study, Celeste-Marie Bernier reclaims Anna Murray Douglass from the margins of history and restores her to the center of nineteenth-century radicalism. Going against the constraints of conventional biography, Celeste-Marie Bernier unveils groundbreaking archival discoveries and weaves a powerful reappraisal of African American women’s intellectual, political, and cultural labor in the struggle against slavery. This astonishing book shows how Anna Murray Douglass shaped abolitionist networks, sustained revolutionary activism, and forged strategies of resistance that reverberated across generations.” - Sir Isaac Julien CBE RA

Smaddification

Amanda Michelle Reid

“An accomplished realization of dance history as political elaboration, Amanda Michelle Reid offers a powerful overview of Jamaican colonialism and the freedom drive that dance deploys. Mobilizing 'smaddification’—a term of embodied relational poetics that references becoming-human—Reid demonstrates how dance can operate as a practice of aesthetic sovereignty that advocates a radical popular politics.” - Thomas J. DeFrantz, Professor, Northwestern University

The Urban Grotesque

Doreen Lee

“The stories provoke and tease, heaping your plate with the delicious smells of inedible food. Doreen Lee has it right: Jakarta teems with debt and scams in traffic jams. If you want to know what it feels like to live in the city—here, and there, and elsewhere—read The Urban Grotesque.” - Anna Tsing, co-author of Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature

Good Vibes Only

Robin James

"Compelling, vivid, clear: in Good Vibes Only Robin James draws our attention to the relationship between music, technology, and the mathematical vectors that power contemporary machine learning systems. Her novel treatment of contemporary political regimes, and specifically the vibe as a political technology animating those regimes, offers satisfying connections between probability, risk and politics; algorithms; and Sara Ahmed’s work on orientations." - Louise Amoore, author of Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others

Materia Medica

Nicole N. Ivy

“This remarkable book traces the relationship between enslaved black women, the materiality of their unfree bodies, and the (white) medical advancements that bear the mark of their traumas. Ivy’s meticulously researched archival retrieval will be paradigm shifting—vital for research in slavery studies, Black studies, gender studies, nineteenth century history, and visual culture studies.” - Kimberly Juanita Brown, author of Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning

The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson

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Anna Murray Douglass

Celeste-Marie Bernier

Smaddification

Amanda Michelle Reid

The Urban Grotesque

Doreen Lee

Good Vibes Only

Robin James

Materia Medica

Nicole N. Ivy

The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson

Best Sellers

Marx for Cats

Leigh Claire La Berge

“Marx for Cats is an undomesticated and indefinable meow de coeur. You can open this book anywhere---it's a Marxist Choose Your Own Adventure---and come away as unsettled, possessed, and reflective as any transportative encounter with a cat might leave you.” - Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox

In the Wake

Christina Sharpe

"Christina Sharpe brings everything she has to bear on her consideration of the violation and commodification of Black life and the aesthetic responses to this ongoing state of emergency. Through her curatorial practice, Sharpe marshals the collective intellectual heft and aesthetic inheritance of the African diaspora to show us the world as it appears from her distinctive line of sight. A searing and brilliant work." - Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Black Disability Politics

Sami Schalk

“Black disabled genius is crucial to the work of creating a free present and future. In Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk does so much absolutely brilliant Black queer disabled femme labor of surfacing buried Black disabled activist histories and organizing lessons. Her book is a Black queer disabled love offering, and reading it made me shout for joy and learn so much. I’m so grateful this book is in the world. Read it and give thanks that we get to share the world with the brilliance of Schalk and the organizers she writes about—then get to work putting into practice the lessons you’ve learned, so we can win.” - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Raving

McKenzie Wark

“Passionately exploring queer rave culture, Raving is the fantasy and the moment. There are drugs and sex, tangled love affairs, rejection, the highs and lows of the dance floors, and all the messiness that makes up a rave evening. A potent book.” - madison moore, author of Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric

Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

“From the moment I received Sara Ahmed’s new work, Living a Feminist Life, I couldn’t put it down. It’s such a brilliant, witty, visionary new way to think about feminist theory. Everyone should read this book. It offers amazing new ways of knowing and talking about feminist theory and practice. And, it is also delightful, funny, and as the song says, ‘your love has lifted me higher.’ Ahmed lifts us higher.” - bell hooks

Featured Journals

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

Soha Bayoumi

JMEWS is the official journal of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies.

This interdisciplinary journal advances the fields of Middle East gender, sexuality, and women's studies through the contributions of academics, artists, and activists from around the globe working in the interpretive social sciences and humanities.

Theater

Tom Sellar

Published on behalf of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale/Yale Repertory Theatre.

Anthropocene History

Susanna Lidström, Sverker Sörlin

Anthropocene History brings together research that addresses the Anthropocene from historical perspectives and contributes to understanding the interconnections between human and Earth history, contemporary and older.

Mathematics

Duke Mathematical Journal

Hubert L. Bray, Alexander Kiselev

Published since its inception in 1935 by Duke University Press, the Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's leading mathematical journals.

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Curtis Franks, Anand Pillay

The Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic publishes original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Rui Loja Fernandes

Founded in 1957, the Illinois Journal of Mathematics (IJM) featured in its inaugural volume the papers of many of the world’s leading mathematicians.

Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

Osamu Fujino

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics publishes original research papers at the forefront of pure mathematics, including surveys that contribute to advances in pure mathematics.

Read to Respond

Environmentalism and Climate Change

Selections in this reading list explore environmentalism and climate change. Topics include climate change, environmental crisis, life in the Anthropocene, climate fiction, environmental racism, and environmental history.

Global Migration

Migration is shaped by shifting political forces, environmental pressures, cultural ties, and deeply personal motivations. Selections in this reading list explore how systems of control, labor, security, race, gender, and climate intersect with lived experiences of movement across borders.

Critical Perspectives on AI in the Humanities

This reading list brings together a curated selection of journal issues, peer-reviewed articles, and scholarly books that examine the cultural, ethical, political, and intellectual dimensions of artificial intelligence. Spanning disciplines across the humanities, this collection highlights questions of power, labor, race, language, authorship, and knowledge production in an era shaped by algorithms.

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