I wanted to let you know that Open Humanities Press has just published my new book, the contents of which will hopefully be of interest to the readers of this list. Fittingly for our times, it discusses a world behind windows and screens in which we all become part of a vapour-like global labour force, Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Summer 2020, Vol. 29, No.3 (July edition) *SLSA 2020 Special Event *Committee Members and Appointments *Membership Renewal *Policies: Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *Ombudspersons *AnthropoScene Book Series *SLSA Europe News SLSA 2020 Special Event–AI/IA: Promises and Perils of Augmented/ Artificial Intelligence Thursday, October 8, 2020 [tentative Continue Reading »
Not without some degree of apprehension, I thought I’d share this project titled Perception at the End of the World, or How Not to Play Video Games, which has just come out in the Flugschriften series. Engaging with post-apocalyptic landscapes, image-making and ways in which we see the world, it’s something I’ve been working on Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Spring 2020, Vol. 29, No.3 (May edition) *SLSA 2020, “Energy,” University of Michigan–UPDATE *Election Results *Committee Members and Appointments *Membership Renewal *Policies: Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *Ombudspersons *AnthropoScene Book Series *SLSA Europe News SLSA 2020, “Energy,” University of Michigan–UPDATE Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 SLSA conference has Continue Reading »
Well, it’s with great happiness that I share with you the publication of my new book Critical Code Studies (MIT Press). SLSA has been so central to the development of this area of study. Much of the contents of this book has been presented at SLSA conferences, and your comments and questions have directed and inspired Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Spring 2020, Vol. 29, No.3 (April edition) *SLSA 2020, “Energy,” University of Michigan–UPDATE *Committee Requests *Policies: Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *Ombudspersons *Election Results *AnthropoScene Book Series *SLSA Europe News SLSA 2020: ENERGY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 34th Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, MI, USA Friday, October Continue Reading »
Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination Kieran M. Murphy How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely tied to the history of electromagnetism. The discovery in 1820 of a Continue Reading »
SLSA members interested in species demise and land use, the dawn of the Anthropocene, 20th century South American history, or science—ornithology and microbial ecology—in realist literary fiction may want to check out Susan M. Gaines’s new novel, Accidentals. About Accidentals: When Gabriel’s immigrant mother returns to her native Uruguay after thirty years in California, he Continue Reading »
The School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at the University of Texas at Dallas is running a search for a full professor of media histories or media archeology. Details here: https://jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/13894.
Andrea Charise writes: I am delighted to share the news that my first book, “The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the 19th-Century British Novel,” is now published with SUNY Press (January 2020). An investigation of how 19th-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience, “The Aesthetics of Continue Reading »
