SLSA: Animals and Society
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS + FREE SHIPPING
All books below are 40% off using code MNSLSA23. Code expires December 1, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DIGITAL CULTURE // ETHNOGRAPHY
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GEOGRAPHY
LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM // DISABILITY STUDIES
- CIFERAE A Bestiary in Five Fingers Thomas R.J. Tyler 2012 Spring
- A provocative investigation into animals, hands, and human identity in Western philosophy
- 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
- 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
- Human Error Species-Being and Media Machines Dominic Pettman 2011 Spring
- Argues that humanity can be seen as a case of mistaken identity
- Developing Animals Wildlife and Early American Photography Matthew Brower 2010 Fall
- How the emergence of wildlife photography changed the way we think about animals
- 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
- 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.
- What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 2009 Fall
- Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism
- Animal Capital Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times Nicole Shukin 2009 Spring
- Illuminates the profound contingency of market life on animal figures and flesh
- 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
- Taxidermic Signs Reconstructing Aboriginality Pauline Wakeham 2008 Spring
- A fascinating study of how taxidermy reinforces racial stereotypes of aboriginality
- 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?