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New Book: The Carceral Surround
How digital technologies entrench state power—and a new vision for resistance
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New Book: Microscopic Life in Early-Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance
This book, edited by Liliane Campos, Sarah Bouttier, François-Joseph Lapointe and Sarah Montin, asks how literature and performance engage with life at microscopic scales. Responding to an era dominated by planetary thinking, the volume turns attention to the invisible biological dimensions that shape our imagination of life, community, and ecology.
Decodings
Decodings Fall 2026
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Fall 2026, Vol. 33, No. 1 *SLSA/4S 2026 Toronto, Canada *SLSA 2027: Washington, DC *SLSA Membership: Join/Renew *New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness *Social Media and Website Redesign *Policies: Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *Configurations Book Reviews *SLSA Europe
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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.
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New Video: Discussion of “I Was a Teenage Exocolonist” (2022)
Latest episode of a series from the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University examining how video games envision possible futures and build thought-provoking worlds.
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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.
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New Book: From the Earth to the Moon, Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age
I hope that this edition will be of interest to SF scholars and fans, those dipping their toes into the genre, anyone who wants to get a taste for Jules Verne’s work, and educators in both high school and college classrooms.
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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.
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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.
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New Book: Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Liliane Campos argues that contemporary fiction is shaping a new, multi-scalar view of life.
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
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