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
- 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
- Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
- Hacked Transmissions Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi 2020 Spring
- Mapping the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day
- 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
- Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall
- A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
- Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Alexander Wilson 2019 Fall
- A new speculative ontology of aesthetics
- Vital Forms Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life Jennifer Johung 2019 Fall
- Shows how the intersection of biotech, art, and architecture are transforming the world we live in
- Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall
- A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization
- Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring
- A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
- How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall
- An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
- Archives Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak and Rick Prelinger 2019 Fall
- How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users
- Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring
- The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
- Silent Cells The Secret Drugging of Captive America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2019 Spring
- A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systems
- Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring
- An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe
- The Technique of Thought Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism Ian James 2019 Spring
- Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality
- The Platform Economy How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet Marc Steinberg 2019 Spring
- Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it
- Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring
- An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé
- Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring
- On the social consequences of machines
- Communication Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton and Mercedes Bunz 2019 Spring
- On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms
- Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall
- A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture
- Dialogues on the Human Ape Laurent Dubreuil and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh 2018 Fall
- A primatologist and a humanist together explore the meaning of being a “human animal”
- The Poem Electric Technology and the American Lyric Seth Perlow 2018 Fall
- An enlightening examination of the relationship between poetry and the information technologies increasingly used to read and write it
- Breathtaking Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner 2018 Fall
- People around the world are struggling to breathe. How do we care for asthma across environments that are increasingly unbreathable?
- The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall
- Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
- The Eye of War Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone Antoine Bousquet 2018 Fall
- How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present
- Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall
- The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
- Pattern Discrimination Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer and Hito Steyerl 2019 Spring
- How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?
- Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude Michael Haworth 2018 Spring
- A bold philosophical investigation into technology and the limits of the human
- Into the Extreme U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth Valerie Olson 2018 Spring
- The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight
- After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next