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 »
Taxidermy and the GothicThe Horror of Still Life By Elizabeth Effinger Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy’s imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin Continue Reading »
I am excited to announce that my new (and first!) book, Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine, is coming out with MIT Press on July 2, 2024. Part of MIT’s “Platform Studies” Series, the book provides an analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, as Continue Reading »
Picturing Evolution and Extinction: Regeneration and Degeneration in Modern Visual Culture, Edited by Fae Brauer and Serena Keshavjee. With the increasing loss of biological diversity in this Sixth Age of Mass Extinction, it is timely to show that devolutionary paranoia is not new, but rather stretches back to the time of Charles Darwin. It is Continue Reading »
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, literature, theatre, cultural studies, modern history, medical humanities, and visual culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c. 1880–1945) and themes of health Continue Reading »
Vitalist Modernism: Art, Science, Energy and Creative Evolution reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became seminal from the fin de siècle until the Second World War for such Modernists as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hugo Ball, Juliette Bisson, Eva Carrière, Salvador Dalì, Robert Delaunay, Continue Reading »
A special issue of Essays in Romanticism on Bruno Latour and Romanticism, edited by Allison Dushane and Roger Whitson: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/eir
