Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mediators | 2014 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 2 | Aesop’s Anthropology | 2014 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 3 | The Anthrobscene | 2014 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 4 | No Speed Limit | 2015 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 5 | Deep Mapping the Media City | 2015 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 6 | The Geek’s Chihuahua | 2015 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 7 | Martin Heidegger Saved My Life | 2015 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 8 | Mandela’s Dark Years | 2015 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 9 | Cinema without Reflection | 2016 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 10 | Dark Deleuze | 2016 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 11 | How Noise Matters to Finance | 2016 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 12 | Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age | 2016 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 13 | The Uberfication of the University | 2016 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 14 | The Politics of Bitcoin | 2016 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 15 | Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers | 2016 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 16 | Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics | 2016 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 17 | The Celebrity Persona Pandemic | 2016 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 18 | Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention | 2017 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 19 | A Third University Is Possible | 2017 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 20 | UW Struggle | 2017 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 21 | Shareveillance | 2017 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 22 | Aspirational Fascism | 2017 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 23 | Callous Objects | 2017 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 24 | The End of Man | 2018 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 25 | The Neocolonialism of the Global Village | 2018 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 26 | A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None | 2018 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 27 | The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance | 2018 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 28 | Learning versus the Common Core | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 29 | Edges of the State | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 30 | Theory for the World to Come | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 31 | Break Up the Anthropocene | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 32 | Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 33 | Burgers in Blackface | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 34 | How to Do Things with Sensors | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 35 | Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 36 | Medical Technics | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 37 | Spoiler Alert | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 38 | Wageless Life | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 39 | LatinX | 2019 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 40 | Furious Feminisms | 2020 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 41 | Kill the Overseer! | 2020 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 42 | Trans Care | 2020 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 43 | Cruelty as Citizenship | 2020 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 44 | Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic | 2020 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 45 | The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender | 2020 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 46 | Grounded | 2020 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 47 | The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender | 2020 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 48 | Virtue Hoarders | 2021 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 49 | The Global Shelter Imaginary | 2021 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 50 | Calamity Theory | 2021 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 51 | Young-Girls in Echoland | 2021 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 52 | Safety Orange | 2021 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 53 | Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now | 2022 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 54 | The World Is Gone | 2022 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 55 | Out of Breath | 2022 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 56 | Does the Earth Care? | 2022 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 57 | Studious Drift | 2022 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 58 | The Owls Are Not What They Seem | 2022 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 59 | Solarities | 2022 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 60 | The School-Prison Trust | 2022 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 61 | Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene | 2022 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 62 | Rescue Me | 2022 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 63 | All through the Town | 2023 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 64 | Health Colonialism | 2023 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 65 | Crip Negativity | 2023 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 66 | Gramsci at Sea | 2023 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 67 | Opening Ceremony | 2023 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 68 | No More Fossils | 2023 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 69 | Everything is Police | 2024 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 70 | Livestreaming | 2024 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 71 | On the Appearance of the World | 2024 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
| 72 | Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism | 2024 | Kelly Oliver | Buy |
The Forerunners: Ideas First series, published by the University of Minnesota Press and edited by Kelly Oliver, is designed to get academic ideas into circulation quickly. Each volume is short, typically under 100 pages, and addresses a pressing topic in politics, culture, or social theory. Since launching in 2014, the series has published more than seventy titles.
The range of subjects is broad: from digital surveillance and the politics of cryptocurrency to racial justice, university labor disputes, and environmental crisis. Authors include scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Oliver’s editorial role places her at the center of a publishing project that prizes timeliness and accessibility over the slower pace of traditional academic publishing.