"In interwar Paris, the encounter between surrealism and the nascent discipline of ethnology led to an intellectual project now known as ‘ethnographic surrealism.’ In The Persistence of Masks, Joyce Suechun Cheng considers the ethnographic dimension of the surrealist movement in its formative years through a close look at the reviews Documents (1929–30) and Minotaure (1933–39) as well as the surrealist writer-turned-ethnographer Michel Leiris’s ethnography of possession."

"Mondloch examines how new media installation art intervenes in technoscience and new materialism, showing how three diverse artists— Pipilotti Rist, Patricia Piccinini, and Mariko Mori— address everyday technology and how it constructs our bodies. Mondloch establishes the unique insights that feminist theory offers to new media art and new materialisms, offering a fuller picture of human– nonhuman relations."