SLSA: Art and Media
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.
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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
- Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring
- A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames
- Design Technics Archaeologies of Architectural Practice Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, Editors 2019 Fall
- Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design
- Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring
- A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power
- The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring
- A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
- Asemic The Art of Writing Peter Schwenger 2019 Fall
- The first critical study of writing without language
- Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall
- A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
- Schizogenesis The Art of Rosemarie Trockel Katherine Guinness 2019 Fall
- A deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity
- Sound, Image, Silence Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World Michael Gaudio 2019 Fall
- A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images
- Scenarios III Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde Werner Herzog 2019 Fall
- For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works
- Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Alexander Wilson 2019 Fall
- A new speculative ontology of aesthetics
- Discourse, Figure Jean-François Lyotard 2020 Spring
- Lyotard’s earliest major work, available in English for the first time
- Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall
- A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
- Sensations of History Animation and New Media Art James J. Hodge 2019 Fall
- A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history
- Vital Forms Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life Jennifer Johung 2019 Fall
- Shows how the intersection of biotech, art, and architecture are transforming the world we live in
- Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall
- A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization
- How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall
- An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
- The Eloquent Screen A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 2019 Spring
- A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move us
- Archives Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak and Rick Prelinger 2019 Fall
- How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users
- Architectures of the Unforeseen Essays in the Occurrent Arts Brian Massumi 2019 Spring
- A beautifully written study of three pioneering artists, entwining their work and our understanding of creativity
- Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Arne De Boever 2019 Fall
- Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics
- Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring
- Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures
- Design, Nature, and Revolution Toward a Critical Ecology Tomás Maldonado 2019 Spring
- Bad Film Histories Ethnography and the Early Archive Katherine Groo 2019 Spring
- A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives
- The Platform Economy How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet Marc Steinberg 2019 Spring
- Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it
- Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring
- An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé
- Information Fantasies Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China Xiao Liu 2019 Spring
- A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses
- Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring
- On the social consequences of machines
- Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring
- A media theory of markets
- Communication Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton and Mercedes Bunz 2019 Spring
- On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms
- Graphic Assembly Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s Craig Buckley 2018 Fall
- An innovative look at the contribution of montage to twentieth-century architecture