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Publications that shape interdisciplinary conversations

Configurations Journal

Peer-reviewed journal, published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press. It features interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of literature, science, technology, and the arts.

Decodings

SLSA’s quarterly newsletter, offering society news, member updates, calls for papers, and highlights from the community. It’s a key channel for staying connected and informed.

Book Series

SLSA supports several interdisciplinary book series, including Proximities, AnthropoScene, and Studies in Literature and Science. These series showcase innovative research and critical approaches linking science, literature, and cultural studies.

Publications

Members Announcements

New Book: The New College Circle

In the mid 1970s, a group of young artists and musicians at New College of California fueled their creative practices with friendship and the radically experimental education offered by the school.

Members Announcements

New Book: Cutting Up Books

Explores writing as experiment and destruction as discovery. Blending theory, art, and practice, it introduces textrapolation: a cut-up method that reimagines creativity, authorship, and knowledge-making in the age of artificial unintelligence. Encourages intellectual play, intuition, and embodied experimentation to reanimate writing and thought.

Members Announcements

New Book: Shifting Paradigms of the Anthropocene

The duality in theorizing global anthropogenic harms presents an opportunity to decenter the human. Yet while rethinking anthropocentrism illuminates inequities in human populations and acknowledges agency among nonhuman actors, examining anthropogenic impacts nevertheless raises ethical questions, effectively recentering the human.

Members Announcements

New Book: First Encounters with AI

I thought you might be interested in our forthcoming volume of essays, titled First Encounters with AI: Writers on Writing, in which professional creative writers reflect on the entry of AI into the space of writing and reading.

Decodings

Decodings Summer 2026

DECODINGS: Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter                      Summer 2026, Vol. 32, No. 4   *SLSA 2026 RATIO ETHICA: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil *SLSA/4S 2026 Toronto, Canada *SLSA Membership: Join/Renew *Elections: 2nd VP, Member-at-large *SLSA 2027: Washington DC *New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness *Social Media and Website Redesign *Policies: Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *Configurations Book Reviews *SLSA Europe

Decodings

Decodings May 2026

Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter                      May 2026, Vol. 32, No. 3 *SLSA 2026 RATIO ETHICA: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil *SLSA/4S 2026 Toronto, Canada *SLSA Membership: Join/Renew *Elections: 2nd VP, Member-at-large *New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness *Social Media/Website Redesign, Policies: Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *Configurations Book Reviews *SLSA Europe

Members Announcements

Video Series: Slow Light Shadow Matter

News from Dennis Summers: I’m pleased to ask you to view the latest chapter in the Slow Light Shadow Matter series of short videos inspired by a scientist and an artist.

Members Announcements

New Book: Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl

Seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails’ and aquatic invertebrates’ uncanny ways of living  

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