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
- Brouhaha Worlds of the Contemporary Lionel Ruffel 2017 Spring
- A rigorous inquiry into the question of the “contemporary” in an era of hypermediation and globalization
- Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
- The Man Who Walked in Color Georges Didi-Huberman 2017 Spring
- A renowned art historian’s careful reading of the work of American artist James Turrell
- The Language of Plants Science, Philosophy, Literature Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan and Patrícia Vieira, Editors 2017 Spring
- Exploring the idea that plants can think, feel, and communicate as a way of reconfiguring our relationship with the natural world
- Philosophy after Friendship Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae Gregg Lambert 2017 Spring
- Redefining the goals of future political philosophy—and removing its justification for war
- Creaturely Love How Desire Makes Us More and Less Than Human Dominic Pettman 2017 Spring
- A fascinating look at the role of animals in human love through the ages
- Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux 2017 Spring
- A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames
- Dreaming in Dark Times Six Exercises in Political Thought Sharon Sliwinski 2017 Spring
- A political theory of dream-life
- Bodies in Suspense Time and Affect in Cinema Alanna Thain 2017 Spring
- How can cinema make us live time?
- Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring
- A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory
- Film as Philosophy Bernd Herzogenrath, Editor 2017 Spring
- Film studies meets philosophy as never before
- Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring
- Challenging the view that caring is only human
- The Anguish of Thought Évelyne Grossman 2017 Spring
- A groundbreaking inquiry into modernist thinkers, anxiety, and writing
- Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring
- Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
- Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast A Multispecies Impression Julian Yates 2017 Spring
- Refocusing our lens on literature and history to lives beyond the human
- The Assemblage Brain Sense Making in Neuroculture Tony D. Sampson 2017 Spring
- A radical new theory of the brain bridging science, philosophy, art, and politics
- Mirror Affect Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art Cristina Albu 2016 Fall
- Examining reflective art and its impact on how we see ourselves and fellow spectators
- Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall
- Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
- The Perversity of Things Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction Hugo Gernsback 2016 Fall
- The founder of science fiction and his other inventions
- Object-Oriented Feminism Katherine Behar, Editor 2016 Fall
- A discipline-expanding book that explores the political and ethical potential of being an object
- The Child to Come Life after the Human Catastrophe Rebekah Sheldon 2016 Fall
- A bold new reading of the child for the twenty-first century, with implications for contemporary environmentalism
- Life, Emergent The Social in the Afterlives of Violence Yasmeen Arif 2016 Fall
- Understanding biopolitics anew, through life and not death, in the aftermath of mass violence
- Being a Skull Place, Contact, Thought, Sculpturesee Georges Didi-Huberman 2016 Fall
- A renowned art historian’s exploration of the work of the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone
- The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck, Editors 2016 Fall
- An unprecedented transdisciplinary call to reassess the meaning of participation in the digital age
- Fuel A Speculative Dictionary Karen Pinkus 2016 Fall
- Undoing the dream of free, clean power from A to Z
- Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall
- On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema
- Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall
- A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out
- How Noise Matters to Finance N. Adriana Knouf 2016 Spring
- The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise
- What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? Vinciane Despret 2016 Spring
- A provocative challenge to the marginalization of “humanlike” aspects of animal life
- Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2016 Spring
- If the publication of Debates in the Digital Humanities in 2012 marked the “digital humanities moment,” this book—the first in a series of annual volumes—will chart the possibilities and tensions of the field as it grows.