Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2023

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PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT

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Film as Philosophy Bernd Herzogenrath, Editor 2017 Spring: Film studies meets philosophy as never before
Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring: Challenging the view that caring is only human
Body Modern Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject Michael Sappol 2017 Spring: An imaginative exploration of how Fritz Kahn’s popular scientific illustrations visualized and performed industrial modernity
The Anguish of Thought Évelyne Grossman 2017 Spring: A groundbreaking inquiry into modernist thinkers, anxiety, and writing
Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring: Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
Asking the Audience Participatory Art in 1980s New York Adair Rounthwaite 2017 Spring: How participatory art enabled collaboration between institutions and politicized artists in 1980s New York
The Stakes of Exposure Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art Namiko Kunimoto 2017 Spring: The first major English-language study of Japan’s most important postwar artists
Curated Decay Heritage beyond Saving Caitlin DeSilvey 2017 Spring: A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay
The Financial Imaginary Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction Alison Shonkwiler 2017 Spring: Exploring how contemporary realist fiction confronts the challenges of financial abstraction and the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality
Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast A Multispecies Impression Julian Yates 2017 Spring: Refocusing our lens on literature and history to lives beyond the human
Indirect Action Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism Lisa Diedrich 2016 Fall: The interconnectedness of illness, thought, and activism prior to the arrival of AIDS in the United States
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
Mixed Realism Videogames and the Violence of Fiction Timothy J. Welsh 2016 Fall: What can be learned from reading videogames and novels through the same lens?
Anti-Book On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing Nicholas Thoburn 2016 Fall: A major new look at experimental political writing and publishing
The Assemblage Brain Sense Making in Neuroculture Tony D. Sampson 2017 Spring: A radical new theory of the brain bridging science, philosophy, art, and politics
Mirror Affect Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art Cristina Albu 2016 Fall: Examining reflective art and its impact on how we see ourselves and fellow spectators
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
The Perversity of Things Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction Hugo Gernsback 2016 Fall: The founder of science fiction and his other inventions
Object-Oriented Feminism Katherine Behar, Editor 2016 Fall: A discipline-expanding book that explores the political and ethical potential of being an object
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
Life, Emergent The Social in the Afterlives of Violence Yasmeen Arif 2016 Fall: Understanding biopolitics anew, through life and not death, in the aftermath of mass violence
Being a Skull Place, Contact, Thought, Sculpturesee Georges Didi-Huberman 2016 Fall: A renowned art historian’s exploration of the work of the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone
The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck, Editors 2016 Fall: An unprecedented transdisciplinary call to reassess the meaning of participation in the digital age
Fuel A Speculative Dictionary Karen Pinkus 2016 Fall: Undoing the dream of free, clean power from A to Z
Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall: On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema
Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall: A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out
René Magritte Selected Writings René Magritte 2016 Fall: An indispensable literary complement to the paintings of René Magritte—the first collected in a single volume
Predator Empire Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance Ian G. R. Shaw 2016 Fall: How a brave new world of robotic surveillance is reshaping the state, society, and our very humanity
The Interface IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976 John Harwood 2016 Fall: How a cast of superstars at IBM altered the face of corporate culture and design in America
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
The Uberfication of the University Gary Hall 2016 Fall: The contemporary university’s implications for the future organization of labor
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
How Noise Matters to Finance N. Adriana Knouf 2016 Spring: The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise
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
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2016 Spring: If the publication of Debates in the Digital Humanities in 2012 marked the “digital humanities moment,” this book—the first in a series of annual volumes—will chart the possibilities and tensions of the field as it grows.
The Language of Nature Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill, Edward Slowik and C. Kenneth Waters, Editors 2016 Spring: Reassessing how the integration of mathematics and natural philosophy contributed to the scientific revolution
Dark Deleuze Andrew Culp 2016 Spring: Rekindling Deleuze’s opposition to what is intolerable about this world
On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects Gilbert Simondon 2016 Spring: A groundbreaking study on the universe of technical objects by one of France’s most important thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century.
What Gender Is, What Gender Does Judith Roof 2016 Spring: A truly new conceptualization of “genders”
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
Making Things International 2 Catalysts and Reactions Mark B. Salter, Editor 2016 Spring: Comprehending the political impacts of globalization requires new tools and new ways of thinking
Inanimation Theories of Inorganic Life David Wills 2016 Spring: An exuberantly original perspective on what it means to be “alive”
Program Earth Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet Jennifer Gabrys 2016 Spring: How sensors are changing our environmental relationships
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
Neofinalism Raymond Ruyer 2016 Spring: The masterwork of an influential French philosopher, available in English for the first time
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
Made to Hear Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children Laura Mauldin 2016 Spring: The social consequences of the medicalization of deafness, as seen in the experiences of parents and professionals working with cochlear implants
On the Existence of Digital Objects Yuk Hui 2016 Spring: How and why digital objects are best theorized through relations
Freegans Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America Alex V. Barnard 2016 Spring: Freegans, who try to live on what we throw away, reveal the limits of capitalism but also the limits of consumer activism in changing it
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
Computing as Writing Daniel Punday 2015 Fall: If we consider e-book authors to be writers, should we think of e-book programmers as writers, too?
Dead Matter The Meaning of Iconic Corpses Margaret Schwartz 2015 Fall: A corpse is much more than a dead body
Illegal Literature Toward a Disruptive Creativity David S. Roh 2015 Fall: “Illegal” publications have real value for society and culture
Mandela’s Dark Years A Political Theory of Dreaming Sharon Sliwinski 2016 Spring: Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life
Mechademia 10 World Renewal Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2015 Fall: The ongoing effects of 3/11 in Japan through anime and manga
How to Talk about Videogames Ian Bogost 2015 Fall: A fond look at the preposterous—and yet essential—pursuit of games criticism
The Challenge of Surrealism The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk Elisabeth Lenk and Theodor W. Adorno Susan H. Gillespie, Editor 2015 Fall: An epistolary treasure trove and a newly contextualized look at philosopher Theodor W. Adorno
Improper Names Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous Marco Deseriis 2015 Fall: The first comprehensive analysis of the shared pseudonym, a collective strategy to build symbolic power that challenges established forms of political and aesthetic representation
Simultaneous Worlds Global Science Fiction Cinema Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells, Editors 2015 Fall: Reframes science fiction cinema as a global genre
Barry Le Va The Aesthetic Aftermath Michael Maizels 2015 Fall: A pioneering study of one of contemporary art’s most compelling artists—and a new window on an era of social unrest
All Thoughts Are Equal Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy John Ó Maoilearca 2015 Fall: A much-needed illumination of the “non-philosophy” of François Laruelle
Singular Images, Failed Copies William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph Vered Maimon 2015 Fall: Reassessing what early photography meant to its makers and viewers
Measuring Manhood Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934 Melissa N. Stein 2015 Fall: A major new history of scientific racism in the United States
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
Hope at Sea Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature Teresa Shewry 2015 Fall: Hope is a lifeline running through the work of literary writers in and surrounding the Pacific Ocean
Cosmic Pessimism Eugene Thacker 2015 Fall: “A philosophy exists between the axiom and the sigh. Pessimism is the wavering, the hovering.”
The Poetics of Information Overload From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing Paul Stephens 2015 Spring: What does avant-garde poetry have to say about information technology? A lot.
Making Things International 1 Circuits and Motion Mark B. Salter, Editor 2015 Spring: Considering the movements of things expands our notions of globalization
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
Of Walking in Ice Munich–Paris, 23 November—14 December 1974 Werner Herzog 2015 Spring: Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s remarkable account of his journey on foot from Munich to Paris
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
Zoo Renewal White Flight and the Animal Ghetto Lisa Uddin 2015 Spring: Race, urban life, and the postwar revitalization of American zoos
Genetic Geographies The Trouble with Ancestry Catherine Nash 2015 Spring: Making sense of the science of ancestry and origins
Wildlife in the Anthropocene Conservation after Nature Jamie Lorimer 2015 Spring: Considers the effects of the Anthropocene era on approaches to conservation
Fiery Cinema The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945 Weihong Bao 2015 Spring: Examines media spectatorship and affect through the unique case of modern China
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
Digital Shift The Cultural Logic of Punctuation Jeff Scheible 2015 Spring: Examines the punctuation of our digital lives and why it matters
The Intellective Space Thinking beyond Cognition Laurent Dubreuil 2015 Spring: A daring exploration of the space between language and thought
Physics of Blackness Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology Michelle M. Wright 2015 Spring: Reveals how assumptions we make about time and space inhibit more inclusive definitions of Blackness
The Nonhuman Turn Richard Grusin, Editor 2015 Spring: A groundbreaking work introducing a new series in twenty-first-century studies
Architectural Agents The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings Annabel Jane Wharton 2015 Spring: How buildings interact with—and manipulate—our world and ourselves
The Arachnean and Other Texts Fernand Deligny 2013 Fall: The network as a mode of being
Counting Species Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics Rafi Youatt 2015 Spring: How has the idea of biodiversity reconstructed political realities?
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
World Projects Global Information before World War I Markus Krajewski 2014 Fall: Before Google and globalization, big-thinking Germans brought the world closer together
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 Way Things Go An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism Aaron Jaffe 2014 Fall: That rare modernist book: erudite, innovative, thought provoking, and playful
Mechademia 9 Origins Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2014 Fall: Explores and challenges the origins of manga, anime, and Japanese popular culture
Savage Preservation The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology Brian Hochman 2014 Fall: How ethnographic encounters shaped audiovisual media in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America
The Anthrobscene Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring: Critiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era
Aesop’s Anthropology A Multispecies Approach John Hartigan Jr. 2015 Spring: What can we learn about culture from other species?
Deaf Gain Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity H-Dirksen L. Bauman and Joseph J. Murray, Editors 2014 Fall: Understanding deafness not as a disability but as a benefit and vital aspect of humanity’s diversity
Oil Culture Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, Editors 2014 Fall: The cultural life of oil—from aesthetics and politics to economy and ecology
Chasing the Light The Cloud Cult Story Mark Allister 2014 Fall: The inspired and inspiring story of one of indie rock’s most loved and spiritual bands
Laruelle Against the Digital Alexander R. Galloway 2014 Fall: Explores the digital as a philosophical concept
The Lure of Whitehead Nicholas Gaskill and A. J. Nocek, Editors 2014 Fall: Advances an innovative and interdisciplinary dialogue with the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
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 Price of Thirst Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos Karen Piper 2014 Fall: Imagine a world where water is only for those who can afford it. We’re already there.