From Vicki Kirby: I’d like to let you know about a new book I’ve edited, What if Culture Was Nature All Along? (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Please consider asking your university library to purchase this book (available now in hardcover and e-book). If you are interested in a personal copy, please note that a less expensive Continue Reading »
From Roger Rothman: I’d like to let you know about the publication of my new book co-edited with Pamela Fraser of the University of Vermont: BEYOND CRITIQUE: Contemporary Art in Theory, Practice, and Instruction (Bloomsbury 2017). Critique has long been a central concept within art practice and theory. Since the emergence of Conceptual Art, artists Continue Reading »
From Julien Simon and Isabel Jaén: Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology to explore human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It features the leading voices in the field, discussing the main themes that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with Continue Reading »
The Modern Language Association of America announced it is awarding its nineteenth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies to Arielle Saiber, of Bowdoin College, for Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy, to be published by the University of Toronto Press. The award is one of Continue Reading »
Object-Oriented Feminism (University of Minnesota Press) seeks not to define object-oriented feminism, but rather to enact it by bringing together contributors from a variety of fields and practices including sociology, anthropology, art, science and technology studies, English, philosophy, and everyday life.
From Adriana Craciun: Adriana Craciun and Simon Schaffer, eds. The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences (Palgrave, 2016) We have over 30 contributors and 50+ illustrations devoted to the rich interplay of the history of science and the arts in the long 18th century.
From Christine Filippone: Science, Technology and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America This innovative book offers the first focused examination of women artists’ response to the preeminent status of science and technology during the Cold War, a period that saw the rise of “big science”, the space race and cybernetics as well as the Continue Reading »
From Bruce Clarke: Meaning Systems publishes books communicating bodies of systemic knowledge in relation to the materialities of corporeal and technological mediations. It offers a dedicated venue for both established and rising thinkers bringing the discourse of systems to a new level of cultural productiveness.
From Thalia Field: In her forthcoming novel, Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction, Brown professor Thalia Field accomplishes several remarkable things. Experimental Animals is, partly, the story of Claude Bernard, a 19th-century French physiologist and vivisectionist who introduced the scientific method to medicine, and his disastrous marriage to Fanny Martin, an animal rights activist avant la Continue Reading »
From Kari Nixon and Lorenzo Servitje: Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory (Palgrave 2016) Exploring the nexus of contagion’s metaphorical and material aspects, this volume contends that contagiousness in its digital, metaphorical, and biological forms is a pervasively endemic condition in our contemporary moment. The chapters explore both endemicity itself and how epidemic discourse has become endemic to Continue Reading »
