Ghosts and Their Hosts The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America Sladja Blažan Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psyche In this innovative book, Sladja Blažan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in fostering the cultural imaginary, offering a medium for framing political ideologies, philosophical thought, racial anxieties, and Continue Reading »
Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett Patrick Armstrong (Author) Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers – D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett – this book is the first substantial study of Continue Reading »
Semiotics of Friendship An Encyclopedic Approach Claus Emmeche Volume 41 in the series Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111423098 Overview About this book A friend should be able to be an attentive listener, which made semiotician Roland Barthes wonder in his intriguing dictionary of love, “cannot friendship be defined as a space with total sonority?”. This Continue Reading »
Bacteria to AI Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts N. Katherine Hayles A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Winter 2025, Vol. 35, No.1 (January 25) *SLSA 2025: Risk (Oregon State University, Corvallis)—proposal deadline 2/17/25 *SLSA Travel Grants *Executive Meeting Notes *Call for Essays; Configurations special issue: “Out of the Past” *New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness *Call for Volunteer Ombudspersons*Social Media & Website Continue Reading »
Call for essays for a Configurations special issue Out of the Past: Reconsidering Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Technology Contributions are sought for a Special Issue of Configurations analyzing examples of nineteenth-century literary or visual texts about science and technology that are relevant to our current concerns.[i] The text can come from any literary or artistic Continue Reading »
Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Liberal Arts FACULTY POSITION POSTING FORM DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION: The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology (https://www.rit.edu/liberalarts/department-english) invites candidates to apply for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Interactive Narrative and Emergent Digital Media Practices starting in August 2025. Prospective Continue Reading »
The Department of Science & Technology Studies (STS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) seeks a teaching-track Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, or Professor of Practice in the area of design and society. We seek a versatile educator who can teach in studio, introductory, and seminar classrooms. The selected candidate will teach required and elective courses for the Continue Reading »
The Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the areas of equitable design, sustainability and design, design justice, collaborative or participatory design, product design, industrial design, or object design. The person hired for this position Continue Reading »
Interplay by Will Freudenheim and William Morgan examines five unique experiments in the field of game design –Schema, Vivarium, Biotopy, Interplay and Nephila. In the course of the book, each is explored as a vehicle to apprehend the unconventional configurations of intelligences that are today emerging from innovations occurring within the field of game design. Continue Reading »
