Our Radioactive Neighbors Collaborative Imagination, Community Futures, and Nuclear Siting Practices How might living next door to nuclear waste shape a community’s future? The United States and other countries around the world are seeking long-term solutions for the spent fuel produced by nuclear power plants. In the process, neighboring communities are being asked to consider Continue Reading »
Rhetorical Ecologies Editors: Sidney I. Dobrin and Madison Jones Format: EPUB+ZIP Publication Date: September 2024 Rhetorical Ecologies invites you on a transformative journey through the history of writing and rhetoric studies’ adoption of ecology, situating this history in rich discussions about: Rather than attempting to outline a complete map of rhetorical ecologies as a unified concept, this book and its contributors Continue Reading »
Inventing Ecosystems The Rhetoric of Science in an Ecological Age Madison P. Jones Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication (PSMEC) About this book This open access book examines the origins of the “ecosystem” concept through the perspective of the rhetoric of science and technology. Studying the pioneering work of ecosystems ecologists Eugene and Howard T. Odum, Continue Reading »
The Fifth Plague Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities By Lucinda Cole This book examines murrain, or mass mortalities of cattle, in ways that bridge the gap between animal studies and the health humanities. Beginning with early modern European disease ecologies but informed by contemporary epidemiological and ecological concerns, The Fifth Plague offers a new historical approach to literary Continue Reading »
Climate Imagination Dispatches from Hopeful Futures Edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn A clarion call for visions of vibrant, hopeful climate futures, bringing together global voices to share stories of resilient communities based in real science. When we think of climate, the stories we tell about the future are often catastrophic: megastorms, crop failures, and heat waves Continue Reading »
Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination: A Cultural History of Animal Disease Management Raymond Malewitz, Oregon State University Published: December 2025 This book shows how major literary works from the eighteenthcentury to the present not only reflect but also shape the thoughts and anxieties of people struggling to navigate crises brought about by animal diseases Continue Reading »
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 »
