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 »
Ghosts and Their Hosts The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America Sladja Blažan Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psyche In this innovative book, Sladja Blažan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in fostering the cultural imaginary, offering a medium for framing political ideologies, philosophical thought, racial anxieties, and Continue Reading »
Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett Patrick Armstrong (Author) Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers – D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett – this book is the first substantial study of Continue Reading »
Semiotics of Friendship An Encyclopedic Approach Claus Emmeche Volume 41 in the series Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111423098 Overview About this book A friend should be able to be an attentive listener, which made semiotician Roland Barthes wonder in his intriguing dictionary of love, “cannot friendship be defined as a space with total sonority?”. This Continue Reading »
