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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PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT

POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY

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Archaeologies of Touch Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi 2018 Spring: A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher Paul 2018 Spring: An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it
A Capsule Aesthetic Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art Kate Mondloch 2018 Spring: How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring: Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
Life A Modern Invention Davide Tarizzo 2017 Fall: A paradigm-shifting genealogy of biological life as metaphysical concept rather than a scientific category
Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall: Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
Care of the Species Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity John Hartigan Jr. 2017 Fall: Darwin meets Foucault in this engrossing ethnography of plants, race, and biodiversity
Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring: Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
Transhumanism Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia Andrew Pilsch 2017 Fall: Exploring the rich history and utopian potential of transhumanism’s belief that humanity is on the cusp of radical evolutionary transformation
The Microbial State Global Thriving and the Body Politic Stefanie R. Fishel 2017 Fall: An innovative exploration of the metaphorical power of bodies on global politics and the potential for the planet’s future
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 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
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
Body Modern Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject Michael Sappol 2017 Spring: An imaginative exploration of how Fritz Kahn’s popular scientific illustrations visualized and performed industrial modernity
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
The Perversity of Things Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction Hugo Gernsback 2016 Fall: The founder of science fiction and his other inventions
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
Predator Empire Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance Ian G. R. Shaw 2016 Fall: How a brave new world of robotic surveillance is reshaping the state, society, and our very humanity
The Interface IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976 John Harwood 2016 Fall: How a cast of superstars at IBM altered the face of corporate culture and design in America
The Slumbering Masses Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2016 Fall: An eye-opening look at why a “good night’s sleep” might be anything but
Human Programming Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Scott Selisker 2016 Fall: The first cultural history of the idea of the programmable mind in U.S. culture, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Farm Worker Futurism Speculative Technologies of Resistance Curtis Márez 2016 Spring: How one of America’s key social movements led the way in using new media for justice
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.
Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring: Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
Inanimation Theories of Inorganic Life David Wills 2016 Spring: An exuberantly original perspective on what it means to be “alive”
Program Earth Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet Jennifer Gabrys 2016 Spring: How sensors are changing our environmental relationships
Neofinalism Raymond Ruyer 2016 Spring: The masterwork of an influential French philosopher, available in English for the first time
Made to Hear Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children Laura Mauldin 2016 Spring: The social consequences of the medicalization of deafness, as seen in the experiences of parents and professionals working with cochlear implants
On the Existence of Digital Objects Yuk Hui 2016 Spring: How and why digital objects are best theorized through relations
Computing as Writing Daniel Punday 2015 Fall: If we consider e-book authors to be writers, should we think of e-book programmers as writers, too?