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 »
Hi everyone, I am pleased to share this news from the University of Denver’s interdisciplinary Emergent Digital Practices (EDP) program. EDP seeks to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting September 2025. We are searching for a candidate who is critically, theoretically, and creatively engaged in emergent digital practices and discourses from the perspectives of Continue Reading »
Dear all, I am currently chairing the search for a new colleague in 19th-century American literature at Texas A&M University, College Station. We especially welcome applicants whose research and teaching represent an expansive vision of nineteenth-century American literature and culture (“long” nineteenth-century studies, multi-ethnic, transnational, and comparative approaches). The Department of English at A&M has a 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 »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts NewsletterSummer 2024, Vol. 34, No.3.5 (September edition) *SLSA 2024: Climate Diasporas (Dallas)*Executive Meeting Notes*Election News: 2nd Vice President and Member-at-Large*Social Media Liaisons*Policies:Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech & Call for Ombudspersons*Call for Papers: Medical and Health Humanities Global Perspectives 2025*New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness*AnthropoScene Book Series*Configurations Book Reviews*European and British 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 »
