Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2023

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Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political Reticulations Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political Philip Armstrong 2009 Spring
Revealing how networks reopen our understanding of political discourse today
Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times Animal Capital Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times Nicole Shukin 2009 Spring
Illuminates the profound contingency of market life on animal figures and flesh
Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals Otaku Japan’s Database Animals Hiroki Azuma 2009 Spring
A publishing event—the highly influential best seller in Japan translated into English
Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony Seeing Witness Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony Jane Blocker 2009 Spring
Unearthing the meaning of witnessing in contemporary art and politics
Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control Edited Clean Version Technology and the Culture of Control Raiford Guins 2009 Spring
Where is censorship in the age of digital technology?
Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses Embodied Victorian Literature and the Senses William A. Cohen 2008 Fall
Making sense of the body in Victorian literature
Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds Digital Baroque New Media Art and Cinematic Folds Timothy Murray 2008 Fall
A surprising and original application of theories of new media art
Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path Ex-foliations Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path Terry Harpold 2008 Fall
A sophisticated consideration of technologies of reading in the digital age
Atavistic Tendencies: The Culture of Science in American Modernity Atavistic Tendencies The Culture of Science in American Modernity Dana Seitler 2008 Fall
A provocative exploration of the impact of the human sciences on literature, politics, and culture
Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human Mechademia 3 Limits of the Human Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2008 Fall
Exploring the possibilities and perils of a posthuman future through visionary works of Japanese anime and manga
Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics Dorsality Thinking Back through Technology and Politics David Wills 2008 Spring
An ambitious investigation of what lurks behind our humanity and our technology
The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism Maren Klawiter 2008 Spring
A richly textured analysis of the body politics of breast cancer activism
Taxidermic Signs: Reconstructing Aboriginality Taxidermic Signs Reconstructing Aboriginality Pauline Wakeham 2008 Spring
A fascinating study of how taxidermy reinforces racial stereotypes of aboriginality
Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy Bíos Biopolitics and Philosophy Roberto Esposito 2008 Spring
A significant political theorist advances the discussion of biopolitics
When Species Meet When Species Meet Donna J. Haraway 2007 Fall
Whom do we touch when we touch a dog? How does this touch shape our multispecies world?
Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability Bataille’s Peak Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability Allan Stoekl 2007 Fall
An audacious exploration of Bataille’s philosophy of energy within current conservation debates
The Exploit: A Theory of Networks The Exploit A Theory of Networks Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker 2007 Fall
From P2P protocols to al-Qaeda, a new approach to network culture
The Poetics of DNA The Poetics of DNA Judith Roof 2007 Spring
Reveals the ideological effects of DNA metaphors and stories
Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga Mechademia 1 Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2006 Fall
A groundbreaking exploration of anime, manga, and Japanese popular culture
The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects The Tears of Things Melancholy and Physical Objects Peter Schwenger 2005 Fall
Reveals the object as the self’s ultimate other
Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State Insurgencies Constituent Power and the Modern State Antonio Negri 1999 Fall
An important work of revolutionary thought—with a new foreword
Essays Critical and Clinical Essays Critical and Clinical Gilles Deleuze 1997 Fall
The final work of this essential thinker
The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque The Fold Leibniz and the Baroque Gilles Deleuze 1992 Fall
In The Fold, Gilles Deleuze argues that Leibniz’s writings constitute the grounding elements of a Baroque philosophy and of theories for analyzing contemporary arts and science. A model for expression in contemporary aesthetics, the concept of the monad is viewed in terms of folds of space, movement, and time. Similarly, the world is interpreted as a body of infinite folds and surfaces that twist and weave through compressed time and space. According to Deleuze, Leibniz also anticipates contemporary views of event and history as multifaceted combinations of signs in motion and of the “modern” subject as nomadic, always in the process of becoming.
Cinema 2: The Time-Image Cinema 2 The Time-Image Gilles Deleuze 1989 Fall
Brings to completion Deleuze’s work on the implications of the cinematographic image. In Cinema 2, Deleuze explains why, since World War II, time has come to dominate film. Among the filmmakers discussed are Rossellini, Fellini, Godard, Resnais, Pasolini, and many others.
The Differend: Phrases in Dispute The Differend Phrases in Dispute Jean-François Lyotard 1989 Spring
“This work is of vital importance in a period when revisionism of all stripes attempts to rewrite, and often simply deny, the occurrence of historical and cultural events, i.e. in attempting to reconstruct ‘reality’ in the convenient names of ‘truth’ and ‘common sense.’” French Review
Foucault Foucault Gilles Deleuze 1988 Spring
The first analysis of Foucault’s work by a major philosopher working within the same poststructuralist tradition.
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 1987 Fall
A positive exercise in the affirmative, “nomad” thought called for in its companion volume, Anti-Oedipus. This series of essays address war and death, territoriality and the anthropology of groups, model theory, and psychosis.
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature Kafka Toward a Minor Literature Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 1986 Fall
Instead of interpreting Kafka’s work according to pre-existing categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of “minor literature”—the use of a major language that subverts it from within.
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image Cinema 1 The Movement-Image Gilles Deleuze 1986 Fall
A revolutionary work in philosophy and a book about cinema that identifies three principal types of image-movement using examples from the work of a diverse group of filmmakers including Griffith, Eisenstein, Cassavetes, and Altman.
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Jean-François Lyotard 1984 Spring
This founding essay of the postmodern movement argues that knowledge-science, technology, and the arts-has undergone a change of status since the 19th century and especially since the late 1950s.
Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics Davide Panagia 2016 Fall
Reckoning the unsettled relationship between aesthetics and politics
The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism The Politics of Bitcoin Software as Right-Wing Extremism David Golumbia 2016 Fall
The first comprehensive account of Bitcoin’s underlying right-wing politics
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age Mark Jarzombek 2016 Fall
Rethinking the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology