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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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
- The Lesser Existences Étienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual David Lapoujade 2021 Spring
- On the complex aesthetics and ontology at work in Étienne Souriau’s unique oeuvre
- Singularity Politics and Poetics Samuel Weber 2021 Spring
- An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature
- Fates of the Performative From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism Jeffrey T. Nealon 2021 Spring
- A powerful new examination of the performative that asks “what’s next?” for this well-worn concept
- The Dispossessed Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor Daniel Bensaïd 2021 Spring
- Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization
- Deep Mediations Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures Karen Beckman and Jeff Scheible, Editors 2021 Spring
- The preoccupation with “depth” and its relevance to cinema and media studies
- The Other Side of the Digital The Sacrificial Economy of New Media Andrea Righi 2021 Spring
- A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity
- Clang Jacques Derrida 2020 Fall
- A new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other
- Prosthesis David Wills 2021 Spring
- An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects
- Women Who Make a Fuss The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf Isabelle Stengers and Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring
- A vibrant call to reevaluate the heritage of women thinkers inside and outside the academy
- Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring
- How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
- Ends of Cinema Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Editors 2020 Fall
- Leading film and media scholars discuss multiple “ends” in the history of cinema
- Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall
- A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate
- 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
- Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall
- A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
- A Silvan Tomkins Handbook Foundations for Affect Theory Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson 2020 Fall
- An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins
- Thinking Plant Animal Human Encounters with Communities of Difference David Wood 2020 Spring
- Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology
- Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring
- A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living
- Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volume II Volume II: Supplemental Texts Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring
- Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, early drafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual
- The Elements of Foucault Gregg Lambert 2020 Spring
- A new conceptual diagram of Foucault’s original vision of the biopolitical order
- On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring
- An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
- Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring
- The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
- Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring
- A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience
- The Decision of Desire Silvia Lippi 2020 Spring
- A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance
- Curating as Ethics Jean-Paul Martinon 2020 Spring
- A new ethics for the global practice of curating
- 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
- How Not to Make a Human Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters Karl Steel 2019 Fall
- From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts
- Deadly Biocultures The Ethics of Life-Making Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh R. Krupar 2019 Fall
- A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today
- 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
- Wageless Life A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone 2020 Spring
- Drawing up alternate ways to “make a living” beyond capitalism
- From Montaigne to Montaigne Claude Lévi-Strauss Emmanuel Désveaux, Editor 2019 Fall
- Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne