Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2023

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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
Neocybernetics and Narrative Bruce Clarke 2014 Fall: An innovative application of systems theory to narrative and media
Total Liberation The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement David Naguib Pellow 2014 Fall: All oppression is linked: radical environmental and animal liberation movements in the struggle for social justice
Gestures Vilém Flusser 2014 Spring: An analysis of gestures great and small, from a renowned media theorist—available in English for the first time
Reading Writing Interfaces From the Digital to the Bookbound 2014 Spring: Uncovers a lineage of writers and thinkers who have rebelled against the means of production
Thought in the Act Passages in the Ecology of Experience Erin Manning and Brian Massumi 2014 Spring: Explores the intimate connections between thinking and creative practice
Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century Claire Zimmerman 2014 Spring: How photography shaped modern architecture
Cinders Jacques Derrida 2014 Spring: A haunting work of poetic self-analysis that finds in the fragility and resilience of ashes a paradigm for the relation of language to the living and the dead
Nauman Reiterated Janet Kraynak 2014 Spring: What unifies the work of Bruce Nauman?
Quotational Practices Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art Patrick Greaney 2014 Spring: Resituates quotation as an aesthetic practice
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
Mechanization Takes Command A Contribution to Anonymous History Sigfried Giedion 2013 Fall: One of the twentieth century’s best-known architectural theorists examines the impact of mechanization on daily life
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
Comparative Textual Media Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman, Editors 2013 Fall: Proposes a new paradigm for the humanities by recognizing print as a medium within a comparative context
Worlds of Autism Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini, Editors 2013 Fall: Amid controversies about the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of autism, a timely collection of new and critical perspectives on how the disorder is understood and represented
Mechademia 8 Tezuka’s Manga Life Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2013 Fall: Provides new perspectives on the renowned anime and manga creator, Tezuka Osamu, and examines his legacy
Virtual Modernism Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era Katherine Biers 2013 Fall: A fascinating analysis of the relationship between modernist writers and the popular culture they so often claimed to reject
The Thought of Death and the Memory of War Marc Crépon 2013 Fall: The first English translation of one of the foremost voices of contemporary moral and political philosophy
Digital State The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry Thomas J. Misa 2013 Fall: The rise of Minnesota computing after World War II—the country’s first fully realized hotbed of computer technology
Loving Animals Toward a New Animal Advocacy Kathy Rudy 2013 Fall: Improving the lives of animals through emotional connection and empathy
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
Natural:Mind Vilém Flusser 2013 Fall: Philosophical reflections on the relations between nature and culture
Native American DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear 2013 Fall: How identifying Native Americans is vastly more complicated than matching DNA
[. . . After the Media] News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century Siegfried Zielinski 2013 Fall: Thinking media after the media
Life, War, Earth Deleuze and the Sciences John Protevi 2013 Spring: Applies Deleuzian theory to an impressive array of physical phenomena, scientific issues, and political events
Béla Tarr, the Time After Jacques Rancière 2013 Fall: Exploring the concept of time in the work of one of Europe’s greatest filmmakers
Corridor Media Architectures in American Fiction Kate Marshall 2013 Spring: How neglected architectural spaces act as media in modern American novels
Humanesis Sound and Technological Posthumanism David Cecchetto 2013 Spring: A search for acoustic resonance leads to an important new critique of posthumanist studies
Off the Network Disrupting the Digital World Ulises Ali Mejias 2013 Spring: Critiques how the Internet, social media, and the digital network change users’ understanding of the world
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
Trash Animals How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II, Editors 2013 Spring: From pigeons to prairie dogs, reflections on reviled animals and their place in contemporary life
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
Eating Anxiety The Perils of Food Politics Chad Lavin 2013 Spring: How the experience of eating influences our politics
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
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
The Heretical Archive Digital Memory at the End of Film Domietta Torlasco 2013 Spring: Explores how contemporary digital artworks are changing our memories of film and our understanding of the cinematic and psychoanalytic archives
Artist Animal Steve Baker 2012 Fall: A provocative exploration of the work of contemporary artists who engage with questions of animal life
At the Borders of Sleep On Liminal Literature Peter Schwenger 2012 Fall: Exploring the fertile connections between creativity and the edges of sleep
Body Drift Butler, Hayles, Haraway Arthur Kroker 2012 Fall: Brings three major feminist theorists into critical dialogue for the first time
From Light to Byte Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema Markos Hadjioannou 2012 Fall: Explores the question of technological change in cinema
Digital Memory and the Archive Wolfgang Ernst Jussi Parikka, Editor 2012 Fall: Explores how media infrastructure, not content, shapes contemporary digital culture
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
In Search of a New Image of Thought Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism Gregg Lambert 2012 Fall: Following the “image of thought” through the labyrinth of Deleuze’s oeuvre
Worm Work Recasting Romanticism Janelle A. Schwartz 2012 Fall: The ascent of worms from creepy creatures to a vital Romantic literary trope
Without Offending Humans A Critique of Animal Rights Élisabeth de Fontenay 2012 Fall: What do humans owe to animals?
Virality Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks Tony D. Sampson 2012 Fall: A new theory of viral relationality beyond the biological
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
Two Lessons on Animal and Man Gilbert Simondon 2012 Fall: The increasingly influential French philosopher presents the history of philosophical discourse in regard to humans, animals, and the vegetal
HumAnimal Race, Law, Language Kalpana Rahita Seshadri 2012 Spring: Power and counterpower in the space of silence
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
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams Mark Dery 2014 Spring: A head-spinning thrill ride through contemporary American culture
CIFERAE A Bestiary in Five Fingers Thomas R.J. Tyler 2012 Spring: A provocative investigation into animals, hands, and human identity in Western philosophy
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
Noise Channels Glitch and Error in Digital Culture Peter Krapp 2011 Fall: Brings to light the critical role of noise and error in the creative potential of digital culture
Gameplay Mode War, Simulation, and Technoculture Patrick Crogan 2011 Fall: Understanding the military logics that created and continue to inform computer games
Governing the Wild Ecotours of Power Stephanie Rutherford 2011 Fall: Shows how iconic representations of nature—from museum to theme park—define our ideas about saving the natural world
The Insect and the Image Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 Janice Neri 2011 Fall: How the picturing of insects inspired new ideas about art, science, nature, and commerce
Surface Encounters Thinking with Animals and Art Ron Broglio 2011 Fall: Developing a phenomenology of the animal other through contemporary art
Mechademia 6 User Enhanced Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2011 Fall: As passive consumers of manga and anime become active users of cultural commodities, this volume explores the possibilities of, and challenges for, engagement
Against Ecological Sovereignty Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World Mick Smith 2011 Fall: Links the political critique of sovereign power with ecological concerns
Cosmopolitics II Isabelle Stengers 2011 Fall: A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science’s claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth
remixthebook Mark Amerika 2011 Fall: A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking reflection on digital media
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
Swamplife People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades Laura A. Ogden 2011 Spring: Alligator hunters, mangroves, and the (mis)adventures of the Ashley Gang in the Florida Everglades
Spinoza Now Dimitris Vardoulakis, Editor 2011 Spring: The interdisciplinary relevance of Spinoza today
Digital Art and Meaning Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations Roberto Simanowski 2011 Spring: How to interpret and critique digital arts, in theory and in practice
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
Human Error Species-Being and Media Machines Dominic Pettman 2011 Spring: Argues that humanity can be seen as a case of mistaken identity
Beautiful Fighting Girl Saito Tamaki 2011 Spring: From Nausicaä to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture
Into the Universe of Technical Images Vilém Flusser 2011 Spring: An examination of the promise and peril of digital communication technologies
Does Writing Have a Future? Vilém Flusser 2011 Spring: A prescient exploration of the fate of the book in the digital age
Felt Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama Chris Thompson 2011 Spring: What happens when nothing happens?
Developing Animals Wildlife and Early American Photography Matthew Brower 2010 Fall: How the emergence of wildlife photography changed the way we think about animals
Junkware Thierry Bardini 2010 Fall: The essential junkiness of our culture and biology
Imagining Illness Public Health and Visual Culture David Serlin, Editor 2010 Fall: Analyzing the visual culture of public health from the nineteenth century to the present
Insect Media An Archaeology of Animals and Technology Jussi Parikka 2010 Fall: Uncovering the insect logic that informs contemporary media technologies and the network society
In Babel's Shadow Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States Brian Lennon 2010 Spring: A study of the limits of multilingual literary expression in print culture
Mechademia 5 Fanthropologies Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2010 Fall: From fan-subs to cosplay, exploring the fan cultures inspired by anime and manga
The Other Emerson Branka Arsić and Cary Wolfe, Editors 2010 Fall: New readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson that reclaim his work for philosophy
A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans with A Theory of Meaning Jakob von Uexküll 2010 Fall: The influential work of speculative biology—and a key document in posthumanist studies—now available in a new, accurate English translation
Electric Animal Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife Akira Mizuta Lippit 2008 Fall: A fascinating exploration of the symbolic place animals hold within our culture.
Political Matter Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life Bruce Braun and Sarah J. Whatmore, Editors 2010 Fall: An engaging collection that explores the politics of material objects
Hypertext and the Female Imaginary Jaishree K. Odin 2010 Fall: Explores the use of hypertext in postmodern electronic and film media by women
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 Force of the Virtual Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy Peter Gaffney, Editor 2010 Spring: The first book-length work to explore in depth Deleuze’s view of the sciences
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
Screens Viewing Media Installation Art Kate Mondloch 2010 Spring: Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museums
What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 2009 Fall: Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism
Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy D. N. Rodowick, Editor 2009 Fall: A critical debate on the importance—and usefulness—of Deleuze’s film theory
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
Mechademia 4 War/Time Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2009 Fall: The provocative manga and anime that reflect Japan’s attempts to come to terms with militarism, violence, and defeat
The Anime Machine A Media Theory of Animation Thomas Lamarre 2009 Fall: Presents a foundational theory of animation and what it reveals about our relationship to technology
Political Affect Connecting the Social and the Somatic John Protevi 2009 Fall: Encounters the visceral connection between politics and emotion
Trouble in the Forest California’s Redwood Timber Wars Richard Widick 2009 Fall: The long social history of California’s conflict over ancient forests and its impact today
Intangible Materialism The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language Ronald Schleifer 2009 Spring: Brings together the humanities and sciences to redefine materialism for a new age
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