Interplay by Will Freudenheim and William Morgan examines five unique experiments in the field of game design –Schema, Vivarium, Biotopy, Interplay and Nephila. In the course of the book, each is explored as a vehicle to apprehend the unconventional configurations of intelligences that are today emerging from innovations occurring within the field of game design. Continue Reading »
Arguing that the 19th century concept of “living form” (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from within, according to an internal logic) is not, as some critics have argued, anathema to avant-garde writing, this book by João Paulo Guimarães contends that the concept survived and flourished in the work of a Continue Reading »
Dear SLSA, I would like to add to the book publications, the following book anthology which has just been published by the Routledge Taylor and Francis Group: Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin de Siècle: Seeing and Hearing the Beyond. The editors are Corrinne Chong and Michelle Foot. My Chapter 8 in it is entitled Composing Continue Reading »
Dear Colleagues: My new book Neuroscience and Art: The Neurocultural Landscape was just released. Below is the book abstract. Chapter abstracts are available at https://amyione.com/chapter-abstracts-neuroscience-and-art-the-neurocultural-landscape-by-amy-ione/ . Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions. Amy Ioneione@diatrope.com ISBN: 978-3031623356Publisher: Springer: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-62336-3 Neuroscience and Art: The Neurocultural Landscape (2024)By Amy Ione, Neuroscience and Art: The Neurocultural Landscape is focused on how Continue Reading »
See contribution “Lost in Space with Frankenstein Shadow” by SLSA member Patricia Olynyk. Bio/Matter/Techno/Synthetics: Design Futures for the More than Human (B/M/T/S) captures and disseminates the design and intellectual work of women who create, make, and ideate at theintra-section of nature, artifice, and technology. Their desires to propagate, generate, calibrate, fabricate, interrogate, and animate all Continue Reading »
I invite you to check out my recently published book, The Digital and Its Discontents, from University of Minnesota Press. This book offers a critical examination of the digital in general, focusing not on particular machines or pieces of software or cultural formations but on the foundational principles that make a technology digital. I propose that there Continue Reading »
I am happy to announce the recent publication of my book, Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes (Bloomsbury). Working across sound studies, media theory, and environmental media studies, Geosonics explores the material and imaginary geology of sonic environments. It is available now, and if you order it from Bloomsbury before October 6th, you’ll receive a 30% discount. Joshua Dittrich, PhDLecturer, ICCIT, University Continue Reading »
Thinking Blue / Writing RedMarxism and the (Post)Human Stephen Tumino (author) Thinking Blue/Writing Red interrogates contemporary culture across a range of texts, from the pandemic (‘Covid’ and ‘Trump Speak’) to high theory (Melville’s narratives) and popular culture (Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’ and Super Bowl performance, Twin Peaks , metamodern ‘cli-fi’ films). Inspired by Derrida’s idea of the secret, Continue Reading »
Neural Networks A critical examination of the figure of the neural network as it mediates neuroscientific and computational discourses and technical practices Authored by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Théo Lepage-Richer, and Lucy Suchman University of Minnesota Press April, 2024 Neural Networks reconstructs situated practices, social histories, mediating techniques, and ontological assumptions that inform the computational project of Continue Reading »
We wanted to share the news that our co-authored book, Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (MIT Press) is just out and available. The book addresses a particular kind of an intersection of media studies, visual culture, and environmental humanities across the different scales of cases that structure the book’s chapters from grassroots to the planetary: Continue Reading »
