The Sorbonne Research Center on Text and Image is pleased to invite you to its next session.
It will take place on June 11th at 5.30 pm in the library of the English department (G358, stairs G, 2nd floor, access through 17 rue de la Sorbonne and 54 rue St Jacques).
As a prelude to the international conference at Paris Cité, we will receive writer Steve Tomasula in a session exploring his latest novel, Ascension (2022).
About Ascension : According to critic Johanna Drucker, “in this epic-scale novel, Steve Tomasula uses multiple modalities and media formats to track the course of ecological impacts and change. From illustrations of contact encounters, to a movie script, to elaborate aerial views and data visualizations, Tomasula demonstrates his unique capacity to engage with technologies of knowledge in constructing his provocative narrative.”
[Steve Tomasula is a leading figure in innovative writing. He is the author of the novels Ascension(Shortlisted for ForeWord Reviews Best Book of the Year, 2022), The Book of Portraiture (FC2); VAS: An Opera in Flatland (University of Chicago Press), an acclaimed novel of the biotech revolution; TOC: A New-Media Novel (winner of the Mary Shelley Award for Excellence in Fiction and the E-Lit Best Book of the Year Award); and IN&OZ (U. of Chicago Press).
His short fiction has been published widely in anthologies and periodicals and is collected in his Once Human: Stories (shortlisted for an IndiFab Best Book of the Year Award). He is also the editor of Conceptualisms: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing as Contemporary Art (U. of Alabama Press, 2022).
Recent essays on art, literature and culture can be found in Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives (2023), The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, and numerous journals.]
You are warmly invited to attend the session.
Françoise Sammarcelli