Forerunners: Ideas First Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Forerunners: Ideas First books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
Mediators (By: Reinhold Martin)
Buy on Amazon2014
Aesop's Anthropology (By: John Hartigan Jr.)
Buy on Amazon2014
The Anthrobscene (By: Jussi Parikka)
Buy on Amazon2014
No Speed Limit (By: Steven Shaviro)
Buy on Amazon2015
Deep Mapping the Media City (By: Shannon Mattern)
Buy on Amazon2015
The Geek's Chihuahua (By: Ian Bogost)
Buy on Amazon2015
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life (By: Grant Farred)
Buy on Amazon2015
Mandela's Dark Years (By: Sharon Sliwinski)
Buy on Amazon2015
Cinema without Reflection (By: Akira Mizuta Lippit)
Buy on Amazon2016
Dark Deleuze (By: Andrew Culp)
Buy on Amazon2016
How Noise Matters to Finance (By: Nicholas A. Knouf)
Buy on Amazon2016
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age (By: Mark Jarzombek)
Buy on Amazon2016
The Uberfication of the University (By: Gary Hall)
Buy on Amazon2016
The Politics of Bitcoin (By: David Golumbia)
Buy on Amazon2016
Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers (By: Sohail Daulatzai)
Buy on Amazon2016
Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (By: Davide Panagia)
Buy on Amazon2016
The Celebrity Persona Pandemic (By: P. David Marshall)
Buy on Amazon2016
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention
Buy on Amazon2017
A Third University Is Possible (By: La Paperson)
Buy on Amazon2017
UW Struggle (By: Chuck Rybak)
Buy on Amazon2017
Shareveillance (By: Clare Birchall)
Buy on Amazon2017
Aspirational Fascism (By: William E. Connolly)
Buy on Amazon2017
Callous Objects (By: Robert Rosenberger)
Buy on Amazon2017
The End of Man (By: Joanna Zylinska)
Buy on Amazon2018
The Neocolonialism of the Global Village (By: Ginger Nolan)
Buy on Amazon2018
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (By: Kathryn Yusoff)
Buy on Amazon2018
The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance (By: Kenneth J. Saltman)
Buy on Amazon2018
Learning versus the Common Core (By: Nicholas Tampio)
Buy on Amazon2019
Edges of the State (By: John Protevi)
Buy on Amazon2019
Theory for the World to Come (By: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer)
Buy on Amazon2019
Break Up the Anthropocene (By: Steve Mentz)
Buy on Amazon2019
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism (By: Arne De Boever)
Buy on Amazon2019
Burgers in Blackface (By: Naa Oyo A. Kwate)
Buy on Amazon2019
How to Do Things with Sensors (By: Jennifer Gabrys)
Buy on Amazon2019
Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation (By: Jonathan Beecher Field)
Buy on Amazon2019
Medical Technics (By: Don Ihde)
Buy on Amazon2019
Spoiler Alert (By: Aaron Jaffe)
Buy on Amazon2019
Wageless Life (By: Marv Waterstone,Ian G.R. Shaw)
Buy on Amazon2019
LatinX (By: Claudia Milian)
Buy on Amazon2019
Furious Feminisms (By: Michael Gill,Anna Mae Duane,Alexis L. Boylan,Barbara Gurr)
Buy on Amazon2020
Kill the Overseer! (By: Sarah Juliet Lauro)
Buy on Amazon2020
Trans Care (By: Hil Malatino)
Buy on Amazon2020
Cruelty as Citizenship (By: Cristina Beltrán)
Buy on Amazon2020
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender (By: )
Buy on Amazon2020
Grounded (By: Christopher Schaberg)
Buy on Amazon2020
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender (By: Marquis Bey)
Buy on Amazon2020
Virtue Hoarders (By: Catherine Liu)
Buy on Amazon2021
The Global Shelter Imaginary (By: Andrew Herscher,Daniel Bertrand Monk)
Buy on Amazon2021
Calamity Theory (By: Joshua Schuster,Derek Woods)
Buy on Amazon2021
Young-Girls in Echoland (By: Andrea Jonsson,Heather Warren-Crow)
Buy on Amazon2021
Safety Orange (By: Anna Watkins Fisher)
Buy on Amazon2021
Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now (By: Grant Farred)
Buy on Amazon2022
The World Is Gone (By: Gregg Lambert)
Buy on Amazon2022
Out of Breath (By: Caterina Albano)
Buy on Amazon2022
Does the Earth Care? (By: Jason Young,Mick Smith)
Buy on Amazon2022
Studious Drift (By: Tyson E. Lewis,Peter Hyland)
Buy on Amazon2022
The Owls Are Not What They Seem (By: Arnaud Gerspacher)
Buy on Amazon2022
Solarities (By: After Oil Collective)
Buy on Amazon2022
The School-Prison Trust (By: Sabina E. Vaught)
Buy on Amazon2022
Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene (By: Lydia Pyne)
Buy on Amazon2022
Rescue Me (By: Margret Grebowicz)
Buy on Amazon2022
All through the Town (By: Antero García)
Buy on Amazon2023
Health Colonialism (By: Shiloh Krupar)
Buy on Amazon2023
Crip Negativity (By: )
Buy on Amazon2023
Gramsci at Sea (By: Sharad Chari)
Buy on Amazon2023
Opening Ceremony (By: Kathryn J. Gindlesparger)
Buy on Amazon2023
No More Fossils (By: Dominic Boyer)
Buy on Amazon2023
Everything is Police (By: Tia Trafford)
Buy on Amazon2024
Livestreaming (By: EL Putnam)
Buy on Amazon2024
On the Appearance of the World (By: Mark Foster Gage)
Buy on Amazon2024
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism (By: Lisa Diedrich)
Buy on Amazon2024
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Forerunners: Ideas First series is publication order: 1. Mediators (By: Reinhold Martin) (2014), 2. Aesop's Anthropology (By: John Hartigan Jr.) (2014), 3. The Anthrobscene (By: Jussi Parikka) (2014), 4. No Speed Limit (By: Steven Shaviro) (2015), 5. Deep Mapping the Media City (By: Shannon Mattern) (2015), and 66 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Forerunners: Ideas First series by Kelly Oliver contains 71 books. The series began in 2014 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Forerunners: Ideas First series is written by Kelly Oliver. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts!
Be the first to leave a review!