Architectural Positions
By Jeff Diamanti
Pier Vittorio Aureli. The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture. MIT Press, 2011. 251 pp.
No Exit? Imagining Radical Refusal
By Erin Wunker
Simon During. Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory, and Post-Secular Modernity. Routledge, 2010. 280 pp.
The Pig Stays in the Picture: Visual/Literary Narratives of Human-Animal Intimacies
By Sarah O’Brien
Susan McHugh. Animal Stories: Narrating Across Species Lines. University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 280pp.
Queering Anarchism
By Michael Truscello
Jamie Heckert and Richard Cleminson, eds. Anarchism and Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power. Routledge, 2011. 232 pp.
Subject of Desire/Subject of Drive: The Emergence of Žižekian Media Studies
By Matthew Flisfeder
Jodi Dean. Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive. Polity, 2010. 140 pp.
Paul A. Taylor. Žižek and the Media. Polity, 2011. 192 pp.
Fabio Vighi. Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 256 pp.
Fantastic Materialism
By Sarah Hamblin
Andy Merrifield. Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination. London: Pluto, 2011. 220 pp.
Entry and Exit Points in Global Capitalism
By Pablo Castagno
Ahmed Kanna. Dubai: The City as Corporation. University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 262 pp.
Authorship: A Queer Death
By David A. Gerstner
Jane Gallop. The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time. Duke University Press, 2011. 184 pp.
The Future of Anti-racist Feminism In Canada
By Ashley Dryburgh
Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith, and Sunera Thobani, eds. States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century. Between the Lines, 2010. 248 pp.
The People’s Media Critique
By Nicholas Holm
Charles R. Acland. Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence. Duke University Press, 2011. 307 pp.
The Culture of Urbanization in (Post)Socialist China
By Joshua Neves
Yomi Braester. Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract. Duke University Press, 2010. 405 pp.
Robin Visser. Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China. Duke University Press, 2010. 362 pp.
Women in Academia: How (re)Discovering Feminisms Can Empower You
By Jennifer Burwell
Brown, Susan, Jeanne Perreault, Jo-Ann Wallace, and Heather Zwicker, eds. Not Drowning But Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts. University of Alberta Press, 2011. 472 pages.
Critical Practice as Desire
By Elizabeth Groeneveld
Robyn Wiegman. Object Lessons. Duke University Press, 2012. 398 pp.
No Local: Globalization and the Remaking of Americanism
By Benjamin Balthaser
Sarika Chandra. Dislocalism: The Crisis of Globalization and the Remobilizing of Americanism. Ohio State University Press. 2011. 303pp.