I invite you to check out my recently published book, The Digital and Its Discontents, from University of Minnesota Press. This book offers a critical examination of the digital in general, focusing not on particular machines or pieces of software or cultural formations but on the foundational principles that make a technology digital. I propose that there Continue Reading »
I am happy to announce the recent publication of my book, Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes (Bloomsbury). Working across sound studies, media theory, and environmental media studies, Geosonics explores the material and imaginary geology of sonic environments. It is available now, and if you order it from Bloomsbury before October 6th, you’ll receive a 30% discount. Joshua Dittrich, PhDLecturer, ICCIT, University Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts NewsletterSummer 2024, Vol. 34, No.3.5 (September edition) *SLSA 2024: Climate Diasporas (Dallas)*Executive Meeting Notes*Election News: 2nd Vice President and Member-at-Large*Social Media Liaisons*Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech & Call for Ombudspersons*Call for Papers: Medical and Health Humanities Global Perspectives 2025*New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness*AnthropoScene Book Series*Configurations Book Reviews*European and British Continue Reading »
Thinking Blue / Writing RedMarxism and the (Post)Human Stephen Tumino (author) Thinking Blue/Writing Red interrogates contemporary culture across a range of texts, from the pandemic (‘Covid’ and ‘Trump Speak’) to high theory (Melville’s narratives) and popular culture (Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’ and Super Bowl performance, Twin Peaks , metamodern ‘cli-fi’ films). Inspired by Derrida’s idea of the secret, Continue Reading »
Neural Networks A critical examination of the figure of the neural network as it mediates neuroscientific and computational discourses and technical practices Authored by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Théo Lepage-Richer, and Lucy Suchman University of Minnesota Press April, 2024 Neural Networks reconstructs situated practices, social histories, mediating techniques, and ontological assumptions that inform the computational project of Continue Reading »
We wanted to share the news that our co-authored book, Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (MIT Press) is just out and available. The book addresses a particular kind of an intersection of media studies, visual culture, and environmental humanities across the different scales of cases that structure the book’s chapters from grassroots to the planetary: Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Summer 2024, Vol. 34, No.3 (July edition) *SLSA 2024: Climate Diasporas (Dallas)*SLSA 2024 Awards and Prizes: Deadline extended for Travel Grants. Notices about Essay, Book, and Lifetime Achievement Awards*Executive Meeting Notes *Election News: 2nd Vice President and Member-at-Large*Social Media Liaisons*Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech & Continue Reading »
Taxidermy and the GothicThe Horror of Still Life By Elizabeth Effinger Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy’s imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin Continue Reading »
I am excited to announce that my new (and first!) book, Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine, is coming out with MIT Press on July 2, 2024. Part of MIT’s “Platform Studies” Series, the book provides an analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, as Continue Reading »
The next SLSA conference will be held at the Sheraton Dallas, North Olive Street, Dallas, Texas, from November 7 through November 10, 2024. Rajani Sudan is the organizer, and her institution Southern Methodist University will sponsor the meeting. Additional support will come from the Bass School for Arts, Humanities, and Technology and the University of Continue Reading »
