SLSA: Philosophy and Theory
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
- Screens Viewing Media Installation Art Kate Mondloch 2010 Spring
- Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museums
- What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 2009 Fall
- Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism
- Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy D. N. Rodowick, Editor 2009 Fall
- A critical debate on the importance—and usefulness—of Deleuze’s film theory
- Games of Empire Global Capitalism and Video Games Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter 2009 Fall
- Analyzes video games and their links with capitalism, militarism, and social control
- Political Affect Connecting the Social and the Somatic John Protevi 2009 Fall
- Encounters the visceral connection between politics and emotion
- The Dada Cyborg Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin Matthew Biro 2009 Spring
- Finding the cyborg in early twentieth-century German art
- Tactical Media Rita Raley 2009 Spring
- The first book to focus exclusively on the tactics and goals of new media art activists
- 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 Nicole Shukin 2009 Spring
- Illuminates the profound contingency of market life on animal figures and flesh
- 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 Jane Blocker 2009 Spring
- Unearthing the meaning of witnessing in contemporary art and politics
- 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 Timothy Murray 2008 Fall
- A surprising and original application of theories of new media art
- Ex-foliations Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path Terry Harpold 2008 Fall
- A sophisticated consideration of technologies of reading in the digital age
- Dorsality Thinking Back through Technology and Politics David Wills 2008 Spring
- An ambitious investigation of what lurks behind our humanity and our technology
- Bíos Biopolitics and Philosophy Roberto Esposito 2008 Spring
- A significant political theorist advances the discussion of biopolitics
- 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 Allan Stoekl 2007 Fall
- An audacious exploration of Bataille’s philosophy of energy within current conservation debates
- 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 Judith Roof 2007 Spring
- Reveals the ideological effects of DNA metaphors and stories
- 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 Antonio Negri 1999 Fall
- An important work of revolutionary thought—with a new foreword
- Essays Critical and Clinical Gilles Deleuze 1997 Fall
- The final work of this essential thinker
- 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 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.
- 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 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 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 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 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.