Critical Theory, Journalism and Popular Science

“How to Improve the Search for Aliens,” The Economist . May 25th 2022.

Aloi, Giovanni. Introduction. Antennae 59 (Microbial Ecologies). Autumn 2022.

Braidotti, Rosi. Introduction. Philosophical Posthumanism by Francesca Ferrando. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Bogost, Alien. Alien Phenomenology. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012.

Cahill, James Leo. Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2019.

Clarke, Bruce. “Intelligence and Embodiment: Cognitive Considerations in Fiasco and Aurora.” Cybernetics and Human Knowing 29:3-4 (2022): 13-30.

—. Posthuman Biopolitics: The Science Fiction of Joan Slonczewski. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Dyer, Betsey Dexter. Unseen Diversity: The World of Bacteria. Prince Frederick: Recorded Books, 2008.

Feuerstein, Thomas, Jens Hauser, and Lucie Strecker, eds. Life is Other: A/Biotic Entanglements in Art and Curating. Berlin: de Gruyter Arts, 2025.

Gomel, Elana. Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule. London: Palgrave, 2014.

Gregory, Tim. Meteorite: How Stones from Outer Space Made our World. London: Basic Books, 2020.

Hand, Kevin Peter. Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2021.

Haraway, Donna. Staying with the Trouble. Durham: Duke UP, 2016.

—. When Species Meet. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2007.

Jones, Caroline A., Natalie Bell, and Selby Nimrod, eds. Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022

Kac, Eduardo. Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond. Masschusetts: MIT UP, 2009.

Kember, Sarah. Astrobiology and the Search for Life on Mars. London: Open Humanities Press, 2011.

Kershenbaum, Arik. A Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals Reveal to Us about Aliens. London: Penguin, 2022.

Marques, Diogo and Ana Gago, Eds. Investigação-Experimentação-Criação: em Arte-Ciência-Tecnologia. Porto: U Fernando Pessoa, 2020.

Nagy, Kelsi and Phillip David Johnson II, Eds. Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2013.

Prendergast, Finola Anne. “Revising Nonhuman Ethics in Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.” Contemporary Literature 58.3 (Fall 2017): 333-360.

Smith, Elizabeth. “The Body as a Spaceship: Alien Intimacies with Microbial Collaborators in Adam Dickinson’s Anatomic.” SLSA 2023 (“Alien”). Tempe: Arizona State University, 2023. Conference Presentation.

Shaviro, Steve. Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life . London: Goldsmiths Press, 2023.

Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979.

Toomey, David. Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own. New York: Norton, 2014.

Uexküll, Jakob von. A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010.

Novels, Short Stories and Films

Chambers, Becky. To Be Taught if Fortunate. London: Hodder, 2020.

Clement, Hal. Mission of Gravity. London: Gollancz, 2014.

Novakova, Julie, Lucas K Law and Susan Forest, Eds. Life Beyond Us. Calgary: Laksa, 2023.

Powers, Richard. Bewilderment. London: Norton, 2022.

Slonczeweski, Joan. Brain Plague. New York: Tor Books, 2000.

Watts, Peter. Blindsight. New York: Tor, 2020.