Collection: The Fantastic in the Arts
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BROWSE BOOKS:
POSTHUMANISM // ENVIRONMENT AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES AND LITERARY CRITICISM // FICTION AND SCI-FI LITERATURE
PHILOSOPHY // THEORY // ANIMATION // VIDEOGAMES AND GAMING
PHOTOGRAPHY // FILM // ZOMBIES
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Star Wars after Lucas A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy Dan Golding 2023 Spring
- Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars
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The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring
- Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police
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Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth The Gothic Anthropocene Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund, Editors 2022 Spring
- An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era
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Troll Magic Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway Theodor Kittelsen 2022 Spring
- A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll
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Game Animals, Video Games, and Humanity Thomas R.J. Tyler 2022 Spring
- A playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can teach us about the other
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What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilém Flusser 2022 Spring
- An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter
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Cosplay The Fictional Mode of Existence Frenchy Lunning 2022 Spring
- An exploration of cosplay and its relationship with the realms of its global fandom, performance, and the modes of fictional existence
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Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring
- Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment
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Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2021 Fall
- Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
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Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall
- A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world
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Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice
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Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall
- A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
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The World Is Gone Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic Gregg Lambert 2022 Spring
- Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditations
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Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall
- A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
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Anime's Identity Performativity and Form beyond Japan 2021 Fall
- A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism
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Young-Girls in Echoland #Theorizing Tiqqun Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson 2022 Spring
- Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child?
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Our Grateful Dead Stories of Those Left Behind Vinciane Despret 2021 Fall
- An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the living
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The Three Sustainabilities Energy, Economy, Time Allan Stoekl 2021 Fall
- Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring
- The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
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Ambivalent Childhoods Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Jacob Breslow 2021 Spring
- Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible
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The Dance of the Arabian Babbler Birth of an Ethological Theory Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring
- A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory
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Solo Viola A Post-Exotic Novel Antoine Volodine 2021 Spring
- A harrowing early novel by one of France’s most unusual contemporary writers
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Watershed Attending to Body and Earth in Distress Ranae Lenor Hanson 2021 Spring
- A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem
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Fates of the Performative From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism Jeffrey T. Nealon 2021 Spring
- A powerful new examination of the performative that asks “what’s next?” for this well-worn concept
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Curiosity and Power The Politics of Inquiry Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity
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Training for Catastrophe Fictions of National Security after 9/11 Lindsay Thomas 2021 Spring
- A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world
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The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring
- Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies
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Timescales Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, Editors 2020 Fall
- Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis
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The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall
- A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
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Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 2020 Fall
- Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema
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The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall
- Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
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Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall
- A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
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Gaian Systems Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene Bruce Clarke 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory’s intersections with neocybernetic systems theory
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Invoking Hope Theory and Utopia in Dark Times Phillip E. Wegner 2020 Spring
- An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times
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Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Sarah Juliet Lauro 2020 Fall
- Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable
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Hungry Listening Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies Dylan Robinson 2020 Spring
- Reimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experience
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Pipers at the Gates of Dawn The Wisdom of Children’s Literature Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring
- Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition
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The Metabolist Imagination Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner 2020 Spring
- Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors
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Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring
- The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
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Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring
- A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames
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Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring
- A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power
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The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring
- A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
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Asemic The Art of Writing Peter Schwenger 2019 Fall
- The first critical study of writing without language
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Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall
- A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
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How Not to Make a Human Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters Karl Steel 2019 Fall
- From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts
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Re-Enchanted The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Maria Sachiko Cecire 2019 Fall
- From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world
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Scenarios III Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde Werner Herzog 2019 Fall
- For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works
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An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall
- Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation
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Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall
- Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945
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The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe 2019 Fall
- A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture
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Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
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Reimagining Livelihoods Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment Ethan Miller 2019 Spring
- A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable development
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Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring
- An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe
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Cyberwar and Revolution Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko 2019 Spring
- Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet
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Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring
- An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé
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Anthropocene Poetics Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction David Farrier 2019 Spring
- How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time
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Information Fantasies Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China Xiao Liu 2019 Spring
- A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses
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Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall
- A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture
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None of This Is Normal The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Benjamin J. Robertson 2018 Fall
- How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own
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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring
- Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
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Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall
- Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
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The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall
- Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
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The Sound of Things to Come An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film Trace Reddell 2018 Fall
- A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema
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Scenarios II Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Fata Morgana; Heart of Glass Werner Herzog 2018 Fall
- The second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable films
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Outsider Theory Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas Jonathan P. Eburne 2018 Fall
- A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies
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99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto Brian Massumi 2018 Fall
- A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms
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Hybrid Child A Novel Mariko Ōhara 2018 Spring
- A classic of Japanese speculative fiction that blurs the line between consumption and creation when a cyborg assumes the form and spirit of a murdered child
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Into the Extreme U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth Valerie Olson 2018 Spring
- The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight
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Wild Child Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics Naomi Morgenstern 2018 Spring
- Exploring how the figure of the “wild child” in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity
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The User Unconscious On Affect, Media, and Measure Patricia Ticineto Clough 2018 Spring
- Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human
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After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
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The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring
- Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
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The Anime Ecology A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media Thomas Lamarre 2018 Spring
- A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation
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Double Visions, Double Fictions The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature Baryon Tensor Posadas 2018 Spring
- A fresh take on the doppelgänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present
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Archaeologies of Touch Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi 2018 Spring
- A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
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Interpreting Anime Christopher Bolton 2018 Spring
- For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches
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A Capsule Aesthetic Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art Kate Mondloch 2018 Spring
- How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
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The Modernist Corpse Posthumanism and the Posthumous Erin E. Edwards 2018 Spring
- An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who—and what—counts as human while offering bold insights into the modernist project
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Veer Ecology A Companion for Environmental Thinking Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Editors 2017 Fall
- An innovative toolkit designed to prompt new awareness of the risk and potential of living on—and with—an alarmingly dynamic planet
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Fictionalizing Anthropology Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human Stuart McLean 2017 Fall
- On anthropology, creativity, and becoming other
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Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall
- An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
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Ready Player Two Women Gamers and Designed Identity Shira Chess 2017 Fall
- A timely look at the implicit biases in video games as they construct and define feminine identity
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Scenarios Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog 2017 Fall
- The first in a series: Urtexts of the quintessential early films of Werner Herzog
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Evil Dead Center A Mystery Carole laFavor 2017 Fall
- Renee is back at it, this time uncovering a dark web with far reaches and implications
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Along the Journey River A Mystery Carole laFavor 2017 Fall
- When tribal traditions run strong, is it possible to love an “other”?
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Transhumanism Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia Andrew Pilsch 2017 Fall
- Exploring the rich history and utopian potential of transhumanism’s belief that humanity is on the cusp of radical evolutionary transformation
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The Sacred Era A Novel Yoshio Aramaki 2017 Spring
- A brilliant work of speculative fiction, blending science and metaphysics, by a Japanese master of the 1970s New Wave
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
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Out of the Blue New Short Fiction from Iceland 2017 Spring
- A groundbreaking collection of fiction from Iceland’s best contemporary authors
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Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux 2017 Spring
- A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames
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Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring
- A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture
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Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring
- A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory
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The Book of the Dead Shinobu Orikuchi 2016 Fall
- The first complete English translation of a Japanese literary masterpiece
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Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast A Multispecies Impression Julian Yates 2017 Spring
- Refocusing our lens on literature and history to lives beyond the human
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Like Clockwork Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall, Editors 2016 Fall
- From Dragon*Con to IBM’s big data and neo-Victorianism to disability studies—the fascinating rise of an international subculture
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Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall
- Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
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The Perversity of Things Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction Hugo Gernsback 2016 Fall
- The founder of science fiction and his other inventions
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Object-Oriented Feminism Katherine Behar, Editor 2016 Fall
- A discipline-expanding book that explores the political and ethical potential of being an object
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The Child to Come Life after the Human Catastrophe Rebekah Sheldon 2016 Fall
- A bold new reading of the child for the twenty-first century, with implications for contemporary environmentalism
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Fuel A Speculative Dictionary Karen Pinkus 2016 Fall
- Undoing the dream of free, clean power from A to Z