April brings another remarkable group of books by Ideas on Fire authors—works that move across media, geographies, and intellectual traditions to examine how power, memory, technology, and belonging shape our worlds.
From the sonic imaginaries of Black science fiction radio to the infrastructures of global energy, from the legal fictions of citizenship to the afterlives of fascism in poetic form, these books demonstrate the intellectual range and urgency of contemporary interdisciplinary scholarship.
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Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination
andré m. carrington
A revelatory history of Black radio drama expanding speculative sound and cultural world-making across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Untrusting: The Quest for Democratic Policing in Brazil
Marta-Laura Haynes
A nuanced ethnography uncovering how mistrust shapes policing, citizenship, and community survival in Brazil’s unequal social landscape.
When Home is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World
Leigh Raiford
A compelling exploration of how Black photographers and activists used imagery to negotiate home and belonging globally.
Across Canons: Language, Latin American Immigrant Literature, and the Making of Latinx Narratives
Thania Muñoz D.
A comparative study of Latin American immigrant literature reshaping Latinx narrative, identity, and multilingual American literary landscapes.
Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions
José A. de la Garza Valenzuela
A critical examination of how queer Chicanx literature exposes US citizenship’s legal fictions and exclusionary power structures.
Racial Virtuality: Information Capitalism and the Suggestive Materiality of Asianness
Danielle Wong
A critical account of how race and media technologies shape Asianness under contemporary information capitalism.
Poetic Grief: Form and Remembrance after National Socialism
Simone Stirner
A reflective study of Holocaust and post-Holocaust poetry exploring grief, memory, and embodied literary experience.
Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations
Gökçe Günel
A global ethnography bridging energy infrastructures and power technologies to challenge linear narratives about energy transitions worldwide.
