Books to Review for Configurations

If you would like to review one of the books below, please contact Jay Labinger.

Current as of December 2, 2025.


New listings:

Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World edited by David Alff and Danielle Spratt (U. Virginia Press)

Literature in Dialogue with the Natural Sciences. Competing Claims from the Early Modern Period to the 20th Century by Christophe Strosetzki (Springer) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-71319-8

Digital Storytelling: An Introduction by Leah Henrickson (Wiley)

Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France by Richard Taws (MIT Press) https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049184/time-machines/

Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science by Colin Williamson (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517914882/drawn-to-nature/

The Organism is a Theory: Giuseppe Longo on Biology, Mathematics, and AI by Giuseppe Longo and Adam Nocek (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920500/the-organism-is-a-theory/

Maxims and the Mind  by Kelly Swartz (UVa Press) https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10157/

Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities edited by Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916084/critical-infrastructure-studies-and-digital-humanities/

On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s by Matthew I. Thompson (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917333/on-life-support/

Desert Distortion: Revealing the Abundance of Contemporary Borderlands Ecologies by Celiina Osuna (Texas Terch UP)

Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives edited by Anton Kirchhofer und Karsten Levihn-Kutzler (Heidelberg UP) https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1126

HERMES III: Translation by Michel Serres translated by Randolph Burks (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517901912/hermes-iii/

Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn (MIT Press)

Unclaimed books from the previous list:


Speculation and the Darwinian Method in British Romance Fiction, 1859–1914
 
by Kate Holterhoff (Ohio UP)

Parascientific Revolutions: The Science and Culture of the Paranormal by Derek Lee (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918897/parascientific-revolutions/

Communicative AI by Mark Coeckelbergh and David J. Gunkel (Wiley) https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/120694/page/13?term=communicative%20ai

Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for Our Warmer World by Lowell Duckert (University of Minnesota Press) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517913588/arcticologies/

Seeing Foucault’s Pendulum: Between Science, Politics, and Artby 

Michael Hagner (Princeton UP)https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781945861062/seeing-foucaults-pendulum

The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence by Benjamin Mangrum (Stanford UP)

Unseparate: Modernism, Interdisciplinary Art, and Network Aestheticsby Steven Henry Madoff (Stanford UP) https://www.sup.org/books/art-and-visual-culture/unseparate

On Wonder: Literature and Science in the Long Eighteenth Century by Tita Chico (Cambridge UP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/on-wonder/79A9B807343BA2ADCB38D0929532D660