a celebration ofTwenty Years of Art in SLSA By Jesse Colin Jackson and Philip Ottowith content derived from the anthologyExperimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art: Engaging the Marginsedited by Jesse Colin Jackson and Antoinette LaFarge (Brill, 2024) In 2004, SLSA changed its name, adding “the Arts” to the mix. In 2024, we celebrate thisoccasion with an Continue Reading »
In addition to his work as visual artist, publisher, poet, and composer, Dick Higgins (1938–98) was also a genuine man of the theater. A founder of Fluxus, he was a major figure in artistic communities in downtown New York City, across Europe, and in Japan. Yet as important as Higgins’s work has been to historians Continue Reading »
In The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: A Naturalist’s Critical Biography, Mary Sanders Pollock revisits the life and work of Gerald Durrell, one of the most significant environmentalist figures of the 20th century. This new biography tracks Durrell’s evolution from a free-range childhood on Corfu through his time in Africa, South America, and the islands of the Continue Reading »
Ghosts and Their Hosts The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America Sladja Blažan Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psyche In this innovative book, Sladja Blažan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in fostering the cultural imaginary, offering a medium for framing political ideologies, philosophical thought, racial anxieties, and Continue Reading »
Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction Micro-Modernism from Hardy to Beckett Patrick Armstrong (Author) Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers – D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett – this book is the first substantial study of Continue Reading »
Semiotics of Friendship An Encyclopedic Approach Claus Emmeche Volume 41 in the series Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111423098 Overview About this book A friend should be able to be an attentive listener, which made semiotician Roland Barthes wonder in his intriguing dictionary of love, “cannot friendship be defined as a space with total sonority?”. This Continue Reading »
Bacteria to AI Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts N. Katherine Hayles A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Winter 2025, Vol. 35, No.1 (January 25) *SLSA 2025: Risk (Oregon State University, Corvallis)—proposal deadline 2/17/25 *SLSA Travel Grants *Executive Meeting Notes *Call for Essays; Configurations special issue: “Out of the Past” *New Book Series: Proximities: Experiments in Nearness *Call for Volunteer Ombudspersons*Social Media & Website Continue Reading »
Call for essays for a Configurations special issue Out of the Past: Reconsidering Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Technology Contributions are sought for a Special Issue of Configurations analyzing examples of nineteenth-century literary or visual texts about science and technology that are relevant to our current concerns.[i] The text can come from any literary or artistic Continue Reading »
Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Liberal Arts FACULTY POSITION POSTING FORM DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION: The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology (https://www.rit.edu/liberalarts/department-english) invites candidates to apply for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Interactive Narrative and Emergent Digital Media Practices starting in August 2025. Prospective Continue Reading »
