Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2023

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Break Up the Anthropocene Steve Mentz 2019 Fall: Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Arne De Boever 2019 Fall: Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring: The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
Silent Cells The Secret Drugging of Captive America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2019 Spring: A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systems
Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring: Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures
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?
Design, Nature, and Revolution Toward a Critical Ecology Tomás Maldonado 2019 Spring
Edges of the State John Protevi 2019 Fall: Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature
Reimagining Livelihoods Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment Ethan Miller 2019 Spring: A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable development
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
The Technique of Thought Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism Ian James 2019 Spring: Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality
Bad Film Histories Ethnography and the Early Archive Katherine Groo 2019 Spring: A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives
The Platform Economy How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet Marc Steinberg 2019 Spring: Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it
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
Information Fantasies Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China Xiao Liu 2019 Spring: A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses
Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring: On the social consequences of machines
Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring: A media theory of markets
Communication Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton and Mercedes Bunz 2019 Spring: On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms
Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall: A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
Graphic Assembly Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s Craig Buckley 2018 Fall: An innovative look at the contribution of montage to twentieth-century architecture
DIA-LOGOS Ramon Llull's Method of Thought and Artistic Practice Amador Vega, Peter Weibel and Siegfried Zielinski, Editors 2018 Fall: The life and work of the outstanding Catalan-Majorcan philosopher, logician, and mystic Ramon Llull continues to fascinate thinkers, artists, and scholars worldwide
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
Dialogues on the Human Ape Laurent Dubreuil and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh 2018 Fall: A primatologist and a humanist together explore the meaning of being a “human animal”
Chromographia American Literature and the Modernization of Color Nicholas Gaskill 2018 Fall: The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930
Another Mother Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism Cesare Casarino and Andrea Righi, Editors 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima
The Poem Electric Technology and the American Lyric Seth Perlow 2018 Fall: An enlightening examination of the relationship between poetry and the information technologies increasingly used to read and write it
Picturing the Postcard A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century Monica Cure 2018 Fall: The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium
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
Breathtaking Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner 2018 Fall: People around the world are struggling to breathe. How do we care for asthma across environments that are increasingly unbreathable?
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring: Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
Internet Daemons Digital Communications Possessed Fenwick McKelvey 2018 Fall: A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight
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
The Alphonso Lingis Reader Alphonso Lingis Tom Sparrow, Editor 2018 Fall: A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy
Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
Biology in the Grid Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life Phillip Thurtle 2018 Fall: How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms
Enduring Images A Future History of New Left Cinema Morgan Adamson 2018 Fall: An integrated look at the political films of the 1960s and ’70s and how the New Left transformed cinema
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
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
Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall: An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
Before the Law The Complete Text of Préjugés Jacques Derrida 2018 Fall: Thinking judgment in relation to the work of Jean-François Lyotard
The Eye of War Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone Antoine Bousquet 2018 Fall: How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present
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
Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall: The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
Pattern Discrimination Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer and Hito Steyerl 2019 Spring: How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?
Heidegger Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics Michael Marder 2018 Fall: Understanding the political and ecological implications of Heidegger’s work without ignoring his noxious public engagements
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
Survival of the Fireflies Georges Didi-Huberman 2018 Fall: Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism
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
Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude Michael Haworth 2018 Spring: A bold philosophical investigation into technology and the limits of the human
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
Powers of Time Versions of Bergson David Lapoujade 2017 Fall: “The philosopher neither obeys, nor commands; he seeks to sympathize.” —Henri Bergson
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
Language and Reality Vilém Flusser 2017 Fall: The first book by this astounding philosopher asserts that the universe, knowledge, truth, and reality are linguistic aspects
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
The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring: Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
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
What Is Information? Peter Janich 2018 Spring: A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker
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
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
Deconstruction Machines Writing in the Age of Cyberwar Justin Joque 2018 Spring: A bold new theory of cyberwar argues that militarized hacking is best understood as a form of deconstruction
Playing with Feelings Video Games and Affect 2018 Spring: How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher Paul 2018 Spring: An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it
Interpreting Anime Christopher Bolton 2018 Spring: For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches
Movement, Action, Image, Montage Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis Luka Arsenjuk 2018 Spring: A major new study of Sergei Eisenstein delivers fresh, in-depth analyses of the iconic filmmaker’s body of work
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
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
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries Experiments in the Digital Humanities Jentery Sayers, Editor 2017 Fall: A major new look at why art, digitization, and design are vital to “making” in the humanities
Advances Jacques Derrida 2017 Fall: An unlimited prehistory of the world that opens up its unpredictable future
Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring: Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
Postcolonial Biology Psyche and Flesh after Empire Deepika Bahri 2017 Fall: Rethinking the body of the colonized and its ongoing transformation in today’s global order
The Long Take Art Cinema and the Wondrous Lutz Koepnick 2017 Fall: An impassioned argument for the cinematic long take as a compelling source of wonder and a unifying force of contemporary art
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
Life A Modern Invention Davide Tarizzo 2017 Fall: A paradigm-shifting genealogy of biological life as metaphysical concept rather than a scientific category
Fictionalizing Anthropology Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human Stuart McLean 2017 Fall: On anthropology, creativity, and becoming other
Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall: Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall: A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall: Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
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
Bioaesthetics Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts Carsten Strathausen 2017 Fall: A comprehensive critique of the ideas behind bioaesthetics, and a necessary, methodical account of both its insights and its deficiencies
Care of the Species Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity John Hartigan Jr. 2017 Fall: Darwin meets Foucault in this engrossing ethnography of plants, race, and biodiversity
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
UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University Chuck Rybak 2018 Spring: A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning
Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring: Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
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
The Microbial State Global Thriving and the Body Politic Stefanie R. Fishel 2017 Fall: An innovative exploration of the metaphorical power of bodies on global politics and the potential for the planet’s future
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
Brouhaha Worlds of the Contemporary Lionel Ruffel 2017 Spring: A rigorous inquiry into the question of the “contemporary” in an era of hypermediation and globalization
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?
The Man Who Walked in Color Georges Didi-Huberman 2017 Spring: A renowned art historian’s careful reading of the work of American artist James Turrell
The Language of Plants Science, Philosophy, Literature Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan and Patrícia Vieira, Editors 2017 Spring: Exploring the idea that plants can think, feel, and communicate as a way of reconfiguring our relationship with the natural world
Philosophy after Friendship Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae Gregg Lambert 2017 Spring: Redefining the goals of future political philosophy—and removing its justification for war
Creaturely Love How Desire Makes Us More and Less Than Human Dominic Pettman 2017 Spring: A fascinating look at the role of animals in human love through the ages
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
For All Waters Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes Lowell Duckert 2017 Spring: The Shakespearean era’s wet writers guide our eco-way today
Dreaming in Dark Times Six Exercises in Political Thought Sharon Sliwinski 2017 Spring: A political theory of dream-life
Bodies in Suspense Time and Affect in Cinema Alanna Thain 2017 Spring: How can cinema make us live time?
Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring: A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture
Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring: A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory