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 »
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 »
