Collection: The Fantastic in the Arts
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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
PHOTOGRAPHY // FILM // ZOMBIES
- 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.