Dear colleagues, Please check out the new CfP for *Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture*. The theme of the new issue is 'The Science and Art of Digital Technology: From the Turing Machine to ChatGPT https://www.pulse-journal.org/open-call ' Pulse is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal affiliated with Central European University. It is especially targeted at early career scholars pursuing innovative and inspiring research. The submission deadline is September 15. The contact for presubmission inquiries is: pulse.scistudies@gmail.com Thank you Katya Krylova PhD researcher, School of Humanities and Creative Arts, University of Canterbury t: (+64) 2902098793 | e: ekaterina.krylova@gmail.com Forthcoming: Conference paper: ‘Neo-Ascetic Technologies of the Self in the Anthropocene’ at the International Conference ‘Environmental Ethics and Vulnerability in Western and/or Buddhist Philosophy’, Verona, October 24-26 https://iseethics.wordpress.com/2023/09/18/call-for-abstracts-international-..., 2024 Journal article: ‘Cute Aesthetics of Fear: A Critique of Korean Neoliberalism in *The School Nurse Files*’ in *Asian Cinema https://www.intellectbooks.com/asian-cinema * Recent: Edited journal issue: Tenth-anniversary volume of Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture https://www.pulse-journal.org/, co-edited with Siobhan Leddy, 2024 Conference paper: ‘Portraying Emergency through Human-Whale Conversations: Extractive Capitalism and Extinction in Apple TV+ Extrapolations’ at the NECS 2024 https://necs.org/conference/2024/izmir conference, Izmir, June 27-29 Journal article: ‘Pets of Precarity: On Excessive Cutification of Companion Animals’ in *Society & Animals https://brill.com/view/journals/soan/aop/article-10.1163-15685306-bja10208/a...* Conference paper: ‘The Narrative Construction of Cuteness as a Premise of Affection for Non-charismatic Species’ at *Cute Ecologies https://awwstruckseminar.wordpress.com/* critical-creative symposium, June 7, 2024 Conference paper: ‘What Does the Magpie See Looking at Your Bruises? *The Axeman’s Carnival* as a Literary Artefact of Advocative Mutualism' at CfHAS https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cfhas/events/ PGRs’ *Narrating the Non-human* hybrid symposium, Edge Hill University, May 30-31, 2024 Book: The Market of Convenient Animals, *New Literary Observer https://www.nlobooks.ru/books/kultura_povsednevnosti/25208/*, 2023