SLSA: Science and Technology
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
- Political Matter Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life Bruce Braun and Sarah J. Whatmore, Editors 2010 Fall
- An engaging collection that explores the politics of material objects
- Cosmopolitics I Isabelle Stengers 2010 Spring
- A sweeping critique of the role and authority of modern science in contemporary society
- What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 2009 Fall
- Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism
- Mechademia 4 War/Time Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2009 Fall
- The provocative manga and anime that reflect Japan’s attempts to come to terms with militarism, violence, and defeat
- The Anime Machine A Media Theory of Animation Thomas Lamarre 2009 Fall
- Presents a foundational theory of animation and what it reveals about our relationship to technology
- Political Affect Connecting the Social and the Somatic John Protevi 2009 Fall
- Encounters the visceral connection between politics and emotion
- Intangible Materialism The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language Ronald Schleifer 2009 Spring
- Brings together the humanities and sciences to redefine materialism for a new age
- Tactical Media Rita Raley 2009 Spring
- The first book to focus exclusively on the tactics and goals of new media art activists
- Animal Capital Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times Nicole Shukin 2009 Spring
- Illuminates the profound contingency of market life on animal figures and flesh
- Atavistic Tendencies The Culture of Science in American Modernity Dana Seitler 2008 Fall
- A provocative exploration of the impact of the human sciences on literature, politics, and culture
- Mechademia 3 Limits of the Human Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2008 Fall
- Exploring the possibilities and perils of a posthuman future through visionary works of Japanese anime and manga
- 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 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.