The Fantastic in the Arts: Philosophy
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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
- 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
- Young-Girls in Echoland #Theorizing Tiqqun Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson 2022 Spring
- Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Curiosity and Power The Politics of Inquiry Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring
- A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory
- 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
- Object-Oriented Feminism Katherine Behar, Editor 2016 Fall
- A discipline-expanding book that explores the political and ethical potential of being an object
- Fuel A Speculative Dictionary Karen Pinkus 2016 Fall
- Undoing the dream of free, clean power from A to Z
- 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.
- 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
- All Thoughts Are Equal Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy John Ó Maoilearca 2015 Fall
- A much-needed illumination of the “non-philosophy” of François Laruelle
- 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
- Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction Quentin Meillassoux 2015 Spring
- Imagining a fiction where science is impossible
- 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
- The Universe of Things On Speculative Realism Steven Shaviro 2014 Fall
- An up-to-the-moment critique of a recent turn in philosophical thought
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Cosmopolitics II Isabelle Stengers 2011 Fall
- A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science’s claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth
- 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
- 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
- What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 2009 Fall
- Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism
- Dorsality Thinking Back through Technology and Politics David Wills 2008 Spring
- An ambitious investigation of what lurks behind our humanity and our technology
- The Parasite Michel Serres 2007 Spring
- The foundational work in the area now known as posthuman thought
- Biomedia Eugene Thacker 2004 Spring
- The merging of computer science and molecular biology, genetic codes and computer codes