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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction: Museums in Science Fiction, Science Fiction in Museums	49
How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation by Mark Paterson (review)	6
Cli-fi and the Future of the Novel: Building on Helena Feder’s “Ecocriticism and Biology” Special Issue	5
The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans by Jason Puskar (review)	4
Nestwork: New Material Rhetorics for Precarious Species by Jennifer Clary-Lemon (review)	4
Embodied Simulations and Neurodivergent Temporalities in To the Moon	2
From SLS to SLSA: A Brief History	2
The Cyber-Homunculus: On Race and Labor in Plans for Computation	2
Slow Narrative Across Media ed. by Marco Caracciolo and Ella Mingazova (review)	2
Contributors	2
The Digitized Museum and the Troubling Reliance on Technology to Manage Knowledge in E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops	1
Coda on Curation: Thoughts on Science Fiction and Museums	1
Contributors	1
Where the Model Ends	1
British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time by David Shackleton (review)	1
Connecting Literature and Science by Jay A. Labinger (review)	1
Stories of Arctic Crisis and Alaskan Mammoths: Neocolonial and Anticolonial Approaches to De-Extinction and Rewilding	1
Worlds Built to Fall Apart: Versions of Philip K. Dick by David Lapoujade (review)	0
Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literatures by Elizabeth Rodrigues (review)	0
H. P. Lovecraft, Photography, and the Transhumanist Imagination	0
Programming the Brain: Vernacular Cybernetics and the Neuro-therapeutic Imaginary	0
After the Jump: An SLSA Exchange on Platforming Games	0
Reading Storied Corals with the Scientific Poetics of Water	0
Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity by Tom Tyler (review)	0
Literary Studies and Well-Being: Structures of Experience in the Worldly Work of Literature and Healthcare by Ronald Schleifer (review)	0

The End of the Anthropocene: Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the Astropocene by Michael J. Gormley (review)	0
Contributors	0
After Eating: Metabolizing the Arts by Lindsay Kelley (review)	0
The Buck Rogers Background: Science Fiction and the Early Development of the Atlas ICBM	0
The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan by Paul Roquet (review)	0
Material Foundations of Scientific Metaphors: A New Materialist Metaphor Studies	0
Energy, Eco-criticism and Nineteenth Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies by Barri J. Gold (review)	0
(In)Hospitable Games: Playing God, the Minecraft Effect, and the Supraphylogenesis of SimEarth	0
Reading Omens in the Escape of Genetically Engineered Dinosaurs, 1970s–1990s	0
Games as Epistemic Mediators: Rethinking Gamification with Morgenstern, von Neumann, and Bateson	0
De-Extinction, Transhumanism, and Postmortal Life	0
Middle-out from Bottom-up: Engineering and Close Reading Code in HBO’s Silicon Valley	0
"Sacredly Confidential": Medical Advice Columns, Consumerism, and Literary Imagination in Turn-of-the-Century Women's Magazine Culture	0
The Plastic Turn by Ranjan Ghosh (review)	0
Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion by Marit Grøtta (review)	0
A Literary Landscape of Istanbul: Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Criticism	0
Prosthetic Immortalities: Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life by Adam R. Rosenthal (review)	0
Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human–Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction by Susan McHugh (review)	0
British Literature and Technology, 1600–1830 ed. by Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon (review)	0
Confluence and Change: The Emergence of Configurations	0
Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions by Katherine Keyser	0
The Politics of Wholesome Games: Conservative Comforts and Radical Softness	0
Playing Seriously: Making Time Animals Between Art, Science, and STS	0
Configurations: A Thirty-Year Retrospective	0
Botany of Empire. Plants Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism by Banu Subramaniam (review)	0
The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children’s Literature, 1762–1860 by Elizabeth Massa Hoiem (review)	0
Contributors	0
Video Games and American Culture: How Ideology Influences Virtual Worlds by Aaron A. Toscano (review)	0
The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade by Jared D. Margulies (review)	0
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy	0
Roald Hoffmann: An Appreciation	0
John Soane's Cabinet of Curiosities by Bruce Boucher (review)	0
Measuring the Impact of Mathematics: Towards a Critical Mathematical Studies	0
Contributors	0
Erotic Surgery: J. G. Ballard’s Crash, Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” and the Visual Legacy of the Medical Museum	0
Erratum	0
Contributors	0
Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI by Nina Beguš (review)	0
Microbes as Machines: Life, Control, and the Problem of Scale in the Emergence of Nanotechnology	0
Contributors	0
Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France by Kari Weil	0
Worlds Ready for Moa: The Pasts and Futures of De-Extinction	0
Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex by Timothy Wientzen (review)	0
Contributors	0
Dispositif: A Cartography ed. by Greg Bird and Giovanbattista Tusa (review)	0
The Origins of Animal Art	0
Creative Writing: Embracing Unfamiliar Knowledge	0
Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Co-Existence by Joshua Trey Barnett (review)	0
Gaming in the Dark: Colossal Cave Adventure, Kentucky Route Zero , and the Racial Imaginary of the Mammoth Cave System	0
Mathilde Blind and Ludwig Mond: Chemistry, Industry, and Waste in Late Victorian Culture	0

Against Traplessness: Disconnection and Entrapment in Multispecies Science Fiction	0
Contributors	0
Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser	0
Contributors	0
Abraham Cowley against Bacon's "Idols of the Mind"	0
Monstrous and Uncanny Ecologies: The Politics of Anamnesis in Ergo Proxy	0
Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media by Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka (review)	0
Prehistoric Routes and Oracular Invasives: Assisted Migration as a Revival and Divination Technology	0
Circling Asianfuturisms: Edmond Y. Chang and Larissa Lai in Conversation	0
Scrambled Astronomy in Fatouville’s French Scenes for Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune	0
Octavia Knew More: Terasem, TESCREAL, and the Embrace of Earthseed from Octavia E. Butler's Parable Series	0
Introduction to the Game Studies Issue: A Metagame	0
Extinction, Cut-Up: Species Revival and Literary Ecomodernism	0
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen (review)	0
Contributors	0
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason by Lee McIntyre	0
Industries of Purity: Horses, Idols, and Affective Economy in Uma Musume Pretty Derby	0
Seas of Data; or, The Oceanographer in the Archive	0
A Technology for Tuning into Life Itself: The Cognitive Pattern of Spectrality in Richard Powers's Bewilderment	0
The Art and Science of Species Revival: De-Extinction, Unboxed	0
Hearing the Living Metaphors: A Response to Serpil Oppermann’s “Storied Seas”	0
Contributors	0
Mediated Anarchy in Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed	0
Contributors	0
The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: Biography of an Author and Wildlife Conservationist by Mary Sanders Pollock (review)	0
I Just Don’t Think about It: Engaging Students with Critical Heritage Discourse through Science Fiction	0
Affective Economies of Tuberculosis and the Circulation of Knowledge: Insights from the Memoirs of Will Ross	0
Spectacle and Sympathy in the Origin Narratives of Lifesaving at Sea	0
Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures by Nigel Rothfels (review)	0
Contributors	0
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by John Tresch	0
Wasting Neither Space Nor Time: Robert Walser's Perambulatory Prose in the Wake of Modern Transportation Technology	0
Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities ed. by Jeremy Chow (review)	0
Choreographing Dirt: Movement, Performance, and Ecology in the Anthropocene by Angenette Spalink (review)	0
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renée Bergland (review)	0
The Global Distribution, Life History, and Taxonomic Description of the Common Oceanic Plastic Bag: Plasticus sacculi sp. nov	0
The Sense of an Endling: Paleofiction, Climate Change, and Human Extinction	0
Science Fiction at the Natural History Museum	0
I Cannot Tell You All the Story: Narrative, Historical Knowledge, and the Museum in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine	0
Contributors	0
Feminist Digital Ecology: Mimesis, Fictocriticism and Altering Technological Space	0
Science, Scientists, and Prehistories of SSK in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Literature	0
Science Fiction Worldbuilding in Museum Displays of Extinct Life	0
On the Confusion Matrix	0
Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction by Sarah E. McFarland (review)	0
Doing Nothing in San Andreas: Contesting the Value of Play in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V	0
Climate of Denial: Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century by Allen MacDuffie (review)	0
What Do Sex Robots Want? Representation, Materiality, and Queer Use	0
Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water by Ursula Kluwick (review)	0
I Can’t Hear You: Gestures, Stereotypes, and Brushings against the Player in Dota 2	0
How Like a Leaf: Vital Energy in Greenhouse Infrastructures	0
The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology by Ted Toadvine (review)	0
Virgin Mary and the Neutrino: Reality in Trouble by Isabella Stengers (review)	0
The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies by Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson, and Jussi Parikka (review)	0
Echo by Amit Pinchevski (review)	0
Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot by Kyla Wazana Tompkins (review)	0
Playing at SLSA: A Game Studies Stream Retrospective	0
Translations in Green: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the Vegetal Turn	0
The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life by Peter Boxall (review)	0
Isamu Noguchi's Gardens: Yellow Peril in the Age of Information	0