Editors: Allison Dushane, Lisa Ottum, Rosalind Powell Pages: 294 Published: Spring 2026 Science writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and science—not as separate endeavors but as mutually constitutive practices. Engaging with long-standing scholarly conversations in science and technology studies, literature and science, rhetoric, and science communication, the essays in this Continue Reading »
The Abyss Stares BackEncounters with Deep-Sea Life Stacy Alaimo In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea? As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene proliferate, advanced technologies also grant us greater access to the furthest reaches of the world’s oceans, facilitating Continue Reading »
Barbarian Currents: Half a Century of Brazilian Media Arts edited by Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez Contemporary art and media art do not exist in separate worlds. In 20th century Brazil, technology was a key element of artistic imagination. Oswald de Andrade, the father of Brazilian ‘cannibal’ modernism, envisioned the Americas as a cradle of Continue Reading »
Dear Friends: Barbara Stauffer and I are pleased to announce that our edited volume will soon be released – Integrative Contemporary Art and Science Practices: Building Catalytic Structures Book Release: Integrative Contemporary Art and Science Practices: Building Catalytic Structures Edited by J.D. Talasek and Barbara Stauffer Available for Pre-orderShips after May 23, 2025 We are pleased to Continue Reading »
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/109024/9781965412107 Also available on Barnes & Noble and Amazon Praise for Be Still Mere Molecule Be Still Mere Molecule is a deep and joyful exploration of the natural sciences prismed through the lens of poetry. Using her extensive knowledge of botany and ecology, Durham deftly integrates scientific terms, equations, and chemical structures in her Continue Reading »
We are pleased to announce that our volume Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images has been published. The 35% discount code MOVINGIMAGE35 is valid until July 1st: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ethical-materialities-in-art-and-moving-images-9781350427143 Endorsements: “This wonderfully diverse volume shows how the zone of ethics is always a zone of jagged, not flat, ontologies. It is a primer for what it means Continue Reading »
Together with Open Humanities Press, I am pleased to announce the publication of Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by Gary Hall in my MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series. Like all Open Humanities Press books, Masked Media is available open access (= it can be downloaded for Continue Reading »
a celebration ofTwenty Years of Art in SLSA By Jesse Colin Jackson and Philip Ottowith content derived from the anthologyExperimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art: Engaging the Marginsedited by Jesse Colin Jackson and Antoinette LaFarge (Brill, 2024) In 2004, SLSA changed its name, adding “the Arts” to the mix. In 2024, we celebrate thisoccasion with an Continue Reading »
In addition to his work as visual artist, publisher, poet, and composer, Dick Higgins (1938–98) was also a genuine man of the theater. A founder of Fluxus, he was a major figure in artistic communities in downtown New York City, across Europe, and in Japan. Yet as important as Higgins’s work has been to historians Continue Reading »
In The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: Biography of an Author and Wildlife Conservationist, Mary Sanders Pollock revisits the life and work of Gerald Durrell, one of the most significant environmentalist figures of the 20th century. This new biography tracks Durrell’s evolution from a free-range childhood on Corfu through his time in Africa, South America, and the Continue Reading »
