SLSA: Environment
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 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: 20% OFF BOOKS + FREE SHIPPING
All books below are 40% off using code MNSLSA22. Code expires November 9, 2022.
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
-
Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Rachel Cypher, Editors 2022 Fall
- A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
-
Angry Planet Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World Anne Stewart 2022 Fall
- Before the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet
-
This Contested Land The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments McKenzie Long 2022 Spring
- One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii
-
Endlings Fables for the Anthropocene Lydia Pyne 2023 Spring
- Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss
-
On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring
- A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France
-
Architecture and Objects Graham Harman 2022 Spring
- Thinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function
-
Game Animals, Video Games, and Humanity Thomas R.J. Tyler 2022 Spring
- A playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can teach us about the other
-
Tsuchi Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art Bert Winther-Tamaki 2022 Spring
- An examination of Japanese contemporary art through the lens of ecocriticism and environmental history
-
Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring
- How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
-
The Owls Are Not What They Seem Artist as Ethologist Arnaud Gerspacher 2022 Fall
- Toward a posthumanist art and ethology
-
Solarities Seeking Energy Justice After Oil Collective Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors 2022 Fall
- A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation
-
What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilém Flusser 2022 Spring
- An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter
-
Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology Mick Smith and Jason Young 2022 Fall
- Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency
-
Out of Breath Vulnerability of Air in Contemporary Art Caterina Albano 2022 Fall
- Explores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing, through contemporary art
-
Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring
- Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization
-
Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2021 Fall
- Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
-
Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall
- A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world
-
Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall
- A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
-
Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall
- What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
-
The Three Sustainabilities Energy, Economy, Time Allan Stoekl 2021 Fall
- Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future
-
Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring
- The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
-
Watershed Attending to Body and Earth in Distress Ranae Lenor Hanson 2021 Spring
- A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem
-
Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring
- A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States
-
Timescales Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, Editors 2020 Fall
- Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis
-
Drawing the Sea Near Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa C. Anne Claus 2020 Fall
- How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life
-
The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall
- Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
-
Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall
- A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate
-
Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall
- A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
-
Wolf Island Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal L. David Mech 2020 Fall
- The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature’s most iconic creatures
-
Gaian Systems Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene Bruce Clarke 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory’s intersections with neocybernetic systems theory