Picturing Evolution and Extinction: Regeneration and Degeneration in Modern Visual Culture, Edited by Fae Brauer and Serena Keshavjee. With the increasing loss of biological diversity in this Sixth Age of Mass Extinction, it is timely to show that devolutionary paranoia is not new, but rather stretches back to the time of Charles Darwin. It is Continue Reading »
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, literature, theatre, cultural studies, modern history, medical humanities, and visual culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c. 1880–1945) and themes of health Continue Reading »
Vitalist Modernism: Art, Science, Energy and Creative Evolution reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de siècle until the Second World War for such Modernists as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hugo Ball, Juliette Bisson, Eva Carrière, Salvador Dalì, Robert Delaunay, Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Spring 2024, Vol. 34, No.2 (May edition) *SLSA 2024: Climate Diasporas (Dallas)*SLSA 2024 Awards and Prizes: Travel Grants; Essay, Book, and Lifetime Achievement Awards*Executive Meeting Notes *Election Statements: 2nd Vice President and Member-at-Large*Social Media Liaisons*Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech & Call for Ombudspersons*New Book Series: Proximities: Continue Reading »
A special issue of Essays in Romanticism on Bruno Latour and Romanticism, edited by Allison Dushane and Roger Whitson: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/eir
Climate Diasporas Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)November 7-10, 2024Sheraton Dallas, Texas This conference seeks contributions that think through the co-constitution of climates and diasporas. Today more than ever, these are mutually informed concepts. They are also plural, with ‘climate’ describing everything from political moods to affective exchanges to Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Winter 2024, Vol. 34, No.1 (revised March edition) *SLSA 2024: Climate (Dallas)*SLSA 2024 Awards: Essay, Book, Lifetime and Travel Stipends *Executive Meeting Notes *Election Statements: 2nd Vice President and Member-at-Large*Social Media Liaisons*Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech & Call for Ombudspersons*New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness Continue Reading »
Listening After Nature: Fielding Recording, Ecology and Critical Practice by Mark Peter Wright examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature; expands site-specificity; and unearths hidden Continue Reading »
Please distribute widely. Speculative fiction and/or science and media scholars with knowledge and experience related to artificial intelligence are especially encouraged to apply. ** Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Humanities and Communication (Artificial Intelligence Specialization) The College of Arts & Sciences (COAS) at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University–Worldwide Campus (ERAU-W) seeks a tenure-track assistant professor with a Ph.D. in English, Continue Reading »
With great pleasure, I invite you to celebrate the publication of my new book, Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement. There are two events, one in Helsinki and another in Turku – I hope to see you in one of them! Details below. Many thanks to all the ISSN members who have Continue Reading »
