If you would like to review one of the books below, please contact Jay Labinger.
Current as of March 28, 2025.
New listings:
The Evolution of Gerald Durrell by Mary Sanders Pollock (Bloomsbury) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-evolution-of-gerald-durrell-9781350385467/
Microbial Resolution: Visualization and Security in the War Against Emerging Microbes by Gloria Chan-Sook Kim (U Minn) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517911706/microbial-resolution/
Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art: Engaging the Margins edited by Jesse Jackson and Antoinette Lafarge (could be joint review with Sensing the Future listed below)
Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929 (Hopkins Press) by Sebastian Klinger (Johns Hopkins UP) https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53855/sleep-works
Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America by Katie Anania (Yale UP)
Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care by Amelia De Falco (Oxford UP) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/curious-kin-in-fictions-of-posthuman-care-9780192886125?cc=us&lang=en&
Prosthetic Memories: Postcolonial Feminisms in a More-Than-Human World by Hyaesin Yoon (Duke UP)
Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation edited by Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, and Susan Tacent (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918316/creature-needs/
Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americasby Élika Ortega (Stanford UP)
Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception by Maja Bak Herrie (Stanford UP)
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn byMadeleine Chalmers (Edinburgh UP) https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-technological-thought-and-the-nonhuman-turn.html
The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science byJohn MacNeill Miller (U. Virginia Press)
The Romantic Sublime and Representations of Technology by Michele Speitz (Liverpool UP)
At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism by Polina Dimova (Penn State UP) https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09781-7.html
The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder by Sarah Bilston (Harvard UP)
Notes on Vermin by Caroline Hovanec (U. Michigan Press)
Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction: Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett by Patrick Armstrong (Bloomsbury) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/microscopy-magnification-and-modernist-fiction-9781350420182/
Planetaria by Monica Ong (Itasca Books) https://itascabooks.com/products/planetaria-visual-poetry-1?_pos=1&_psq=planetaria&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Humanities in the Time of AI by Laurent Dubreuil (U. Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919047/humanities-in-the-time-of-ai/
HERMES II: Interference by Michel Serres, translated by Randolph Burks (U. Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816678853/hermes-ii/
Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism by Leif Weatherby (U. Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919320/language-machines/
Modern Manuscripts and the Pre-History of Digital Humanities by Alexander Christie (Springer) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-56000-2
Body Maps: Improving Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese Medicine byLan Li (Hopkins) https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53765/body-maps#book__authors
The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (U. Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918828/the-little-database/
Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by Gary Hall (Open Humanities Press) https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/
DeepAesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning by Anna Munster (Duke)
Informatics of Domination edited by Zach Blas, Melody Jue, & Jennifer Rhee (Duke)
Unclaimed books from the previous list:European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical Sites by Mark Pizzato (Bloomsbury) https://www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/european-churches-and-chinese-temples-as-neuro-theatrical-sites
Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums by Jeremy Braddock (University of California Press)
Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation edited by Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, and Susan Tacent (U. Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918316/creature-needs/
Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) Edited by Nancy Perloff and Michelle Kuo (Getty Pubs)
Neuroscience and Art: The Neurocultural Landscape by Amy Ione (Springer) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-62336-3
Art and Biotechnology: Viral Culture from CRISPR to COVID edited by Claire Correo Nettleton and Louise Mackenzie (Bloomsbury)
Kim Stanley Robinsonby Andrew Rowcroft (Liverpool UP)
Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry by Nicoletta Asciuto (Johns Hopkins UP) https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/33271/brilliant-modernism
Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician by Alice Rothchild (New Village Press)
