Book launch: Big Data — A New Medium? (Routledge 2020) 1 – 2 pm GMT on Thursday 3 March 2022. Dear Colleagues You are warmly invited to the virtual launch event of Big Data: A New Medium? (Routledge 2020) with the editor Natasha Lushetich and authors Btihaj Ajana, Franco Berardi, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Warren Neidich. To register (and receive the event link by 1 March 2022): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-big-data-a-new-medium-tickets-267552475657 About the book: Big Continue Reading »
Book launch: Distributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies (Routledge 2021) 1 – 2 pm GMT on Friday 25 February 2022. You are warmly invited to the virtual launch event of Distributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies with the editors Natasha Lushetich and Iain Campbell and authors Gregory Cajete, Barbara Glowczewski, Ian James, Adrian MacKenzie and Kuai Shen. To register (and receive the event link by 23 Feb 2022): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-distributed-perception-resonances-and-axiologies-tickets-262576201487 About the book: Who, what, Continue Reading »
From Josh DiCaglio: In lieu of much-missed conference mingling during covid-times, I wanted to drop a note about my book Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry (description at the publisher link), just out this past November from the University of Minnesota Press. The book is currently on sale for 40% off as part of UMP’s MLA virtual exhibition (see Continue Reading »
From Paul Benzon: I have a new book out that might interest some members of this list — see below and the attached file for more information, including a 30% discount code. Happy New Year to all! — “Archival Fictions is the book many of us working at the intersections of media and literature have been Continue Reading »
From Mark Paterson: Please allow me to announce my book How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation which came out last October with University of Minnesota Press [publisher link]. It speaks to the history of neuroscience, the history of science, the social history of technology, and phenomenological investigations of movement. I was rather frustrated that work in Continue Reading »
Jay Labinger reports: I’m very happy to announce the imminent appearance of my book “Connecting Literature and Science,” which in many ways is indebted to all the invaluable interactions I’ve had with so many of you over the past three decades. It will be published by Routledge (official date 11/19) in both hardcover and ebook Continue Reading »
From Mandy-Suzanne Wong: Nov 1 is publication day for Listen, we all bleed, my book of essays on nonhuman-animal voices in activist art — a project whose first spark was ignited at SLSA 2013 in Notre Dame. In Listen, we all bleed, radical artists from around the world use recordings of nonhuman voices to plead for Continue Reading »
From the publisher: “Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the Literary Microscope examines Continue Reading »
From Robert Mitchell: I hope to draw your attention to Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics Between Romanticism and Liberalism, which has just been published by Fordham University Press. Links to the publisher and Amazon pages appear below, and the book is available as hardcover, softcover, and also as a free EPub book. Infectious Liberty traces the origins of Continue Reading »
I am writing to announce the publication of my first book, which is ironically, is a tradebook based on research done over the past 10 years. There is an upcoming online book talk to accompany its soft launch, organized by the English Department of Universiti of Malaya where I am now based (although I am Continue Reading »
