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Papers

(The median citation count of Configurations is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction: Museums in Science Fiction, Science Fiction in Museums	13
How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation by Mark Paterson (review)	7
Nestwork: New Material Rhetorics for Precarious Species by Jennifer Clary-Lemon (review)	3
Cli-fi and the Future of the Novel: Building on Helena Feder’s “Ecocriticism and Biology” Special Issue	3
The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans by Jason Puskar (review)	3
The Cyber-Homunculus: On Race and Labor in Plans for Computation	3
From SLS to SLSA: A Brief History	2
Embodied Simulations and Neurodivergent Temporalities in To the Moon	2
Connecting Literature and Science by Jay A. Labinger (review)	1
Confluence and Change: The Emergence of Configurations	1
Coda on Curation: Thoughts on Science Fiction and Museums	1
Contributors	1
The Digitized Museum and the Troubling Reliance on Technology to Manage Knowledge in E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops	1
Introduction to the Game Studies Issue: A Metagame	1
Contributors	1
Where the Model Ends	1
The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology by Ted Toadvine (review)	1
Contributors	0
Scrambled Astronomy in Fatouville’s French Scenes for Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune	0
Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel ed. by Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines, and Roslynn D. Haynes	0
Contributors	0
"Sacredly Confidential": Medical Advice Columns, Consumerism, and Literary Imagination in Turn-of-the-Century Women's Magazine Culture	0
Roald Hoffmann: An Appreciation	0
Measuring the Impact of Mathematics: Towards a Critical Mathematical Studies	0
Contributors	0

Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition by Antoine Traisnel	0
Hearing the Living Metaphors: A Response to Serpil Oppermann’s “Storied Seas”	0
H. P. Lovecraft, Photography, and the Transhumanist Imagination	0
Energy, Eco-criticism and Nineteenth Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies by Barri J. Gold (review)	0
Reading Omens in the Escape of Genetically Engineered Dinosaurs, 1970s–1990s	0
Science Fiction Worldbuilding in Museum Displays of Extinct Life	0
Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity by Tom Tyler (review)	0
Science, Scientists, and Prehistories of SSK in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Literature	0
Contributors	0
Against Traplessness: Disconnection and Entrapment in Multispecies Science Fiction	0
Doing Nothing in San Andreas: Contesting the Value of Play in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V	0
The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children’s Literature, 1762–1860 by Elizabeth Massa Hoiem (review)	0
The Politics of Wholesome Games: Conservative Comforts and Radical Softness	0
A Hundred Tiny Hands: Slavery, Nanotechnology, and the Anthropocene in Midnight Robber	0
I Cannot Tell You All the Story: Narrative, Historical Knowledge, and the Museum in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine	0
Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media by Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka (review)	0
The Origins of Animal Art	0
A Literary Landscape of Istanbul: Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Criticism	0
The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life by Peter Boxall (review)	0
Reading Storied Corals with the Scientific Poetics of Water	0
Wasting Neither Space Nor Time: Robert Walser's Perambulatory Prose in the Wake of Modern Transportation Technology	0
Programming the Brain: Vernacular Cybernetics and the Neuro-therapeutic Imaginary	0
Contributors	0
Echo by Amit Pinchevski (review)	0
Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions by Katherine Keyser	0
I Can’t Hear You: Gestures, Stereotypes, and Brushings against the Player in Dota 2	0
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by John Tresch	0
Microbes as Machines: Life, Control, and the Problem of Scale in the Emergence of Nanotechnology	0
Isamu Noguchi's Gardens: Yellow Peril in the Age of Information	0
Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice by Harlan Weaver	0
Fabric Bodies: The Craft of Vascular Anastomosis	0
Contributors	0
Video Games and American Culture: How Ideology Influences Virtual Worlds by Aaron A. Toscano (review)	0
Translations in Green: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the Vegetal Turn	0
Mediated Anarchy in Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed	0
The Global Distribution, Life History, and Taxonomic Description of the Common Oceanic Plastic Bag: Plasticus sacculi sp. nov	0
Contributors	0
Worlds Built to Fall Apart: Versions of Philip K. Dick by David Lapoujade (review)	0
Affective Economies of Tuberculosis and the Circulation of Knowledge: Insights from the Memoirs of Will Ross	0
Science Fiction at the Natural History Museum	0
Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures by Nigel Rothfels (review)	0
Contributors	0
Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion by Marit Grøtta (review)	0
Material Foundations of Scientific Metaphors: A New Materialist Metaphor Studies	0
Abraham Cowley against Bacon's "Idols of the Mind"	0
The Hermeneutics of Computer-Generated Texts	0
The Sense of an Endling: Paleofiction, Climate Change, and Human Extinction	0
Algorithmic Empathy: Toward a Critique of Aesthetic AI	0
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy	0
Middle-out from Bottom-up: Engineering and Close Reading Code in HBO’s Silicon Valley	0

After the Jump: An SLSA Exchange on Platforming Games	0
The Buck Rogers Background: Science Fiction and the Early Development of the Atlas ICBM	0
Virgin Mary and the Neutrino: Reality in Trouble by Isabella Stengers (review)	0
(In)Hospitable Games: Playing God, the Minecraft Effect, and the Supraphylogenesis of SimEarth	0
Playing at SLSA: A Game Studies Stream Retrospective	0
Contributors	0
Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex by Timothy Wientzen (review)	0
Industries of Purity: Horses, Idols, and Affective Economy in Uma Musume Pretty Derby	0
Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France by Kari Weil	0
Dispositif: A Cartography ed. by Greg Bird and Giovanbattista Tusa (review)	0
The Protoplasmic Imagination: Ernst Haeckel and H. P. Lovecraft	0
Mathilde Blind and Ludwig Mond: Chemistry, Industry, and Waste in Late Victorian Culture	0
Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot by Kyla Wazana Tompkins (review)	0
After Eating: Metabolizing the Arts by Lindsay Kelley (review)	0
On the Confusion Matrix	0
Seas of Data; or, The Oceanographer in the Archive	0
The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan by Paul Roquet (review)	0
Erotic Surgery: J. G. Ballard’s Crash, Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” and the Visual Legacy of the Medical Museum	0
Dispassionate Dissections and Their Emotional Rewards: Reading William Harvey and Richard Blackmore	0
The Weird and the Meta in Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts	0
Configurations: A Thirty-Year Retrospective	0
What Do Sex Robots Want? Representation, Materiality, and Queer Use	0
Contributors	0
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen (review)	0
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens ed. by Nicolas Nova	0
The End of the Anthropocene: Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the Astropocene by Michael J. Gormley (review)	0
Games as Epistemic Mediators: Rethinking Gamification with Morgenstern, von Neumann, and Bateson	0
Monstrous and Uncanny Ecologies: The Politics of Anamnesis in Ergo Proxy	0
Creative Writing: Embracing Unfamiliar Knowledge	0
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin	0
How Like a Leaf: Vital Energy in Greenhouse Infrastructures	0
Gaming in the Dark: Colossal Cave Adventure, Kentucky Route Zero , and the Racial Imaginary of the Mammoth Cave System	0
Erratum	0
Interspecies Ethics and the Limits of Epistemic Authority in Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves	0
Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser	0
Feminist Digital Ecology: Mimesis, Fictocriticism and Altering Technological Space	0
I Just Don’t Think about It: Engaging Students with Critical Heritage Discourse through Science Fiction	0
Literary Studies and Well-Being: Structures of Experience in the Worldly Work of Literature and Healthcare by Ronald Schleifer (review)	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
Spectacle and Sympathy in the Origin Narratives of Lifesaving at Sea	0
Contributors	0
The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies by Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson, and Jussi Parikka (review)	0
John Soane's Cabinet of Curiosities by Bruce Boucher (review)	0
Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now by Vincent Ialenti	0
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason by Lee McIntyre	0