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
- Aesop’s Anthropology A Multispecies Approach John Hartigan Jr. 2015 Spring
- What can we learn about culture from other species?
- Laruelle Against the Digital Alexander R. Galloway 2014 Fall
- Explores the digital as a philosophical concept
- 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 Steven Shaviro 2014 Fall
- An up-to-the-moment critique of a recent turn in philosophical thought
- 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 Bruce Clarke 2014 Fall
- An innovative application of systems theory to narrative and media
- 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 Erin Manning and Brian Massumi 2014 Spring
- Explores the intimate connections between thinking and creative practice
- 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 Patrick Greaney 2014 Spring
- Resituates quotation as an aesthetic practice
- 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 Matthew A. Taylor 2013 Fall
- Reimagining posthumanism through the work of canonical American writers
- 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 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 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 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 Kathy Rudy 2013 Fall
- Improving the lives of animals through emotional connection and empathy
- 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 Vilém Flusser 2013 Fall
- Philosophical reflections on the relations between nature and culture
- [. . . 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 John Protevi 2013 Spring
- Applies Deleuzian theory to an impressive array of physical phenomena, scientific issues, and political events
- 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 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 Chad Lavin 2013 Spring
- How the experience of eating influences our politics
- 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 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 Peter Schwenger 2012 Fall
- Exploring the fertile connections between creativity and the edges of sleep
- 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 Markos Hadjioannou 2012 Fall
- Explores the question of technological change in cinema
- Digital Memory and the Archive Wolfgang Ernst Jussi Parikka, Editor 2012 Fall
- Explores how media infrastructure, not content, shapes contemporary digital culture