SLSA: Philosophy and Theory

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Aesop’s Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach Aesop’s Anthropology A Multispecies Approach John Hartigan Jr. 2015 Spring
What can we learn about culture from other species?
Laruelle: Against the Digital Laruelle Against the Digital Alexander R. Galloway 2014 Fall
Explores the digital as a philosophical concept
The Lure of Whitehead The Lure of Whitehead Nicholas Gaskill and A. J. Nocek, Editors 2014 Fall
Advances an innovative and interdisciplinary dialogue with the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism The Universe of Things On Speculative Realism Steven Shaviro 2014 Fall
An up-to-the-moment critique of a recent turn in philosophical thought
The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami 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 Neocybernetics and Narrative Bruce Clarke 2014 Fall
An innovative application of systems theory to narrative and media
Gestures Gestures Vilém Flusser 2014 Spring
An analysis of gestures great and small, from a renowned media theorist—available in English for the first time
Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience 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
Cinders 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
Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art Quotational Practices Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art Patrick Greaney 2014 Spring
Resituates quotation as an aesthetic practice
Summa Technologiae 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 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 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 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
Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era 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 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
Loving Animals: Toward a New Animal Advocacy 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 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 Natural:Mind Vilém Flusser 2013 Fall
Philosophical reflections on the relations between nature and culture
[. . . After the Media]: News from the Slow-Fading Twentieth Century [. . . 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 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 Béla Tarr, the Time After Jacques Rancière 2013 Fall
Exploring the concept of time in the work of one of Europe’s greatest filmmakers
Humanesis: Sound and Technological Posthumanism Humanesis Sound and Technological Posthumanism David Cecchetto 2013 Spring
A search for acoustic resonance leads to an important new critique of posthumanist studies
Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics Eating Anxiety The Perils of Food Politics Chad Lavin 2013 Spring
How the experience of eating influences our politics
Hikikomori: Adolescence without End 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 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
At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature 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 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 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 Digital Memory and the Archive Wolfgang Ernst Jussi Parikka, Editor 2012 Fall
Explores how media infrastructure, not content, shapes contemporary digital culture