Collection: The Fantastic in the Arts

A collection of books curated for attendees and those interested in the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts 2022 meeting.

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POSTHUMANISM // ENVIRONMENT AND THE ANTHROPOCENE

SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES AND LITERARY CRITICISM // FICTION AND SCI-FI LITERATURE

PHILOSOPHY // THEORY // ANIMATION // VIDEOGAMES AND GAMING

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The Slumbering Masses Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2016 Fall: An eye-opening look at why a “good night’s sleep” might be anything but
Human Programming Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Scott Selisker 2016 Fall: The first cultural history of the idea of the programmable mind in U.S. culture, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Farm Worker Futurism Speculative Technologies of Resistance Curtis Márez 2016 Spring: How one of America’s key social movements led the way in using new media for justice
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? Vinciane Despret 2016 Spring: A provocative challenge to the marginalization of “humanlike” aspects of animal life
The Age of Lovecraft Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editors 2016 Spring: The first sustained look at Lovecraft in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture
Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring: Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
A Love of UIQ Félix Guattari 2016 Spring: An exciting attempt by one of France’s best-known thinkers wherein he explores his thought through cinematic narrative.
Internet Spaceships Are Serious Business An EVE Online Reader Marcus Carter, Kelly Bergstrom and Darryl Woodford, Editors 2016 Spring: The first sustained analysis of the hugely successful and complex MMOG, EVE Online
Speculative Blackness The Future of Race in Science Fiction André M. Carrington 2016 Spring: Examines race through fanzines, Star Trek, comic books, and Harry Potter
Ambient Media Japanese Atmospheres of Self Paul Roquet 2016 Spring: How atmospheric media have come to shape urban Japan
Elemental Ecocriticism Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Editors 2015 Fall: Brings to ecotheory and the environmental humanities the challenges and possibilities offered by thinking in elemental terms
Dead Matter The Meaning of Iconic Corpses Margaret Schwartz 2015 Fall: A corpse is much more than a dead body
Simultaneous Worlds Global Science Fiction Cinema Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells, Editors 2015 Fall: Reframes science fiction cinema as a global genre
All Thoughts Are Equal Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy John Ó Maoilearca 2015 Fall: A much-needed illumination of the “non-philosophy” of François Laruelle
Coin-Operated Americans Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade Carly A. Kocurek 2015 Fall: How and why video gaming culture became the domain of young men and boys
Cosmic Pessimism Eugene Thacker 2015 Fall: “A philosophy exists between the axiom and the sigh. Pessimism is the wavering, the hovering.”
Stone An Ecology of the Inhuman Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 2015 Spring: A beautifully written account of stone’s intimacy to what it means to be human
Necromedia Marcel O’Gorman 2015 Spring: An unusual answer to a common question: Why does technology play such a powerful role in our culture?
A Geology of Media Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring: A sweeping new ecological take on technology
Wildlife in the Anthropocene Conservation after Nature Jamie Lorimer 2015 Spring: Considers the effects of the Anthropocene era on approaches to conservation
Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction Quentin Meillassoux 2015 Spring: Imagining a fiction where science is impossible
Players and Their Pets Gaming Communities from Beta to Sunset Mia Consalvo and Jason Begy 2015 Spring: An unprecedented look at the lifespan of an online game that went against the grain
The Nonhuman Turn Richard Grusin, Editor 2015 Spring: A groundbreaking work introducing a new series in twenty-first-century studies
No Speed Limit Three Essays on Accelerationism Steven Shaviro 2015 Spring: Proposes a vision of survival and flourishing in the face of economic and environmental catastrophe
Gaming at the Edge Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture Adrienne Shaw 2014 Fall: A major new analysis of the representation of marginalized groups in video games
The Anthrobscene Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring: Critiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era
The Universe of Things On Speculative Realism Steven Shaviro 2014 Fall: An up-to-the-moment critique of a recent turn in philosophical thought
The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami Matthew Carl Strecher 2014 Fall: A journey through the mysterious metaphysical realm where Haruki Murakami’s strangest characters lurk, bizarre scenes unfold, and dark secrets emerge
Gestures Vilém Flusser 2014 Spring: An analysis of gestures great and small, from a renowned media theorist—available in English for the first time
Summa Technologiae Stanisław Lem 2014 Spring: From the acclaimed author of the science fiction novel Solaris, a pre-Dawkins exposition of evolution as a blind and chaotic watchmaker
Universes without Us Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature Matthew A. Taylor 2013 Fall: Reimagining posthumanism through the work of canonical American writers
Prismatic Ecology Ecotheory beyond Green Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Editor 2013 Fall: Traces the impress and agency of ecologies that cannot be reduced to the bucolic expanses of green readings
Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Timothy Morton 2013 Fall: The world as we know it has already come to an end
Ariel’s Ecology Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics Monique Allewaert 2013 Spring: Rethinking the boundaries between humans and nonhumans in early America
Designing the Creative Child Playthings and Places in Midcentury America Amy F. Ogata 2013 Spring: The construction of the “creative child” as Cold War America’s best hope for the future
Hot Spotter’s Report Military Fables of Toxic Waste Shiloh R. Krupar 2013 Spring: How biopolitical militarism in the U.S. obscures the domestic remains of war
Radiance from Halcyon A Utopian Experiment in Religion and Science Paul Eli Ivey 2013 Spring: A revealing history of a surprisingly influential and inventive theosophical utopian community
Cosmic Apprentice Dispatches from the Edges of Science Dorion Sagan 2013 Spring: A renowned writer takes us on an intellectual thrill ride to challenge scientific and philosophical dogma
Hikikomori Adolescence without End Saito Tamaki 2013 Spring: A best-selling work of Japanese psychology that brought attention to the widespread problem of acute social withdrawal
Body Drift Butler, Hayles, Haraway Arthur Kroker 2012 Fall: Brings three major feminist theorists into critical dialogue for the first time
Mechademia 7 Lines of Sight Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2012 Fall: Tracing the impact of anime and manga’s radical break with Cartesian perspective
Picturing the Cosmos Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime Elizabeth A. Kessler 2012 Fall: A revealing look at the Romantic impulse behind the Hubble telescope’s awe-inspiring deep space images
Inhuman Citizenship Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature Juliana Chang 2012 Fall: Explores the complicated relationships between those who suffer and their tormenters
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec 2012 Fall: Pondering the human condition while examining the vampire squid from hell
Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing Ian Bogost 2012 Spring: A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another
Death Sentences Kawamata Chiaki 2012 Spring: Japanese science fiction meets the European avant-garde—available for the first time in English
Anime’s Media Mix Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan Marc Steinberg 2012 Spring: Untangles the web of commodity, capitalism, and art that is anime
Gameplay Mode War, Simulation, and Technoculture Patrick Crogan 2011 Fall: Understanding the military logics that created and continue to inform computer games
The Tourist State Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand Margaret Werry 2011 Fall: Examining the role of performance in state-making
Freud in Oz At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Kenneth B. Kidd 2011 Fall: Shows how the acceptance of psychoanalysis owes a notable debt to the rise of “kid lit”
Cosmopolitics II Isabelle Stengers 2011 Fall: A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science’s claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth
How to Do Things With Videogames Ian Bogost 2011 Fall: A fresh look at computer games as a mature mass medium with unlimited potential for cultural transformation
Animal Stories Narrating across Species Lines Susan McHugh 2011 Spring: How cross-species companionship is figured across a variety of media—and why it matters
Vilém Flusser An Introduction Anke Finger, Rainer Guldin and Gustavo Bernardo 2011 Spring: The first introduction to a key thinker in twentieth-century media philosophy and cultural theory
The American Dream in Vietnamese Nhi T. Lieu 2011 Spring: Fantasy, desire, and community in Vietnamese American popular culture
Beautiful Fighting Girl Saito Tamaki 2011 Spring: From Nausicaä to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture
Nakagami, Japan Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity Anne McKnight 2011 Spring: How Japan's most canonical postwar writer brought that country's largest social minority into the mainstream
An Errant Eye Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France Tom Conley 2010 Fall: Deciphering maps as poetry, and poems as maps
The Self-Made Map Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France Tom Conley 2010 Fall: Illuminates the connection between literature, identity, and mapmaking in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France.
Junkware Thierry Bardini 2010 Fall: The essential junkiness of our culture and biology
Cosmopolitics I Isabelle Stengers 2010 Spring: A sweeping critique of the role and authority of modern science in contemporary society
I Think I Am Philip K. Dick Laurence A. Rickels 2010 Spring: Sounds out the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dick’s influential fiction
The Japan of Pure Invention Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado Josephine Lee 2010 Spring: What the lightest of operas reveals about racial images and practices
From Utopia to Apocalypse Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe Peter Y. Paik 2010 Spring: The pitfalls and limitations of utopian politics as revealed by science fiction
What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 2009 Fall: Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism
Games of Empire Global Capitalism and Video Games Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter 2009 Fall: Analyzes video games and their links with capitalism, militarism, and social control
The Dada Cyborg Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin Matthew Biro 2009 Spring: Finding the cyborg in early twentieth-century German art
Tactical Media Rita Raley 2009 Spring: The first book to focus exclusively on the tactics and goals of new media art activists
Otaku Japan’s Database Animals Hiroki Azuma 2009 Spring: A publishing event—the highly influential best seller in Japan translated into English
Embodied Victorian Literature and the Senses William A. Cohen 2008 Fall: Making sense of the body in Victorian literature
The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer Louis Kaplan 2008 Fall: The story of the birth of spirit photography and the controversy surrounding its discovery
The Devil Notebooks Laurence A. Rickels 2008 Fall: This sequel to The Vampire Lectures takes on the Devil
Dorsality Thinking Back through Technology and Politics David Wills 2008 Spring: An ambitious investigation of what lurks behind our humanity and our technology
Murder Most Modern Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture Sari Kawana 2008 Spring: Surveillance, sexuality, war, and censorship in Japanese detective fiction
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. and Takayuki Tatsumi, Editors 2007 Fall: Connecting Japan’s vibrant science fiction tradition to the global phenomenon of anime
The Parasite Michel Serres 2007 Spring: The foundational work in the area now known as posthuman thought
The Souls of Cyberfolk Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory Thomas Foster 2005 Spring: Considers the construction of race, gender, and sexuality in virtual reality
The Motion of Light in Water Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village Samuel R. Delany 2004 Spring: The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography
Biomedia Eugene Thacker 2004 Spring: The merging of computer science and molecular biology, genetic codes and computer codes
Touch Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media Laura U. Marks 2002 Fall: Proposes a revolutionary approach to the interpretation of art, film, and the digital.
Space and Place The Perspective of Experience Yi-Fu Tuan 2001 Spring: On the 25th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of this foundational work on human geography.
Monster Theory Reading Culture Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Editor 1996 Fall: Explores concepts of monstrosity in Western civilization from Beowulf to Jurassic Park.