Susan Squier
Biographic Data
| ID | 640697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Squier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Squier |
| SIGNATURE | SQUIER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0061-8201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies of Climate Change Comics
How do we get the news about climate change to readers resistant to it? As a hyperobject, climate change is too big to think about, too traumatic to envision. Both imagination and reason recoil from this wicked problem. In this chapter, I survey a range of recent graphic narratives about climate change, showing how they address the narrative and aesthetic challenges posed by climate change by drawing on strategies specific to the comics medium. T…
The Sky Is Falling
The rhetoric of risk and safety has shaped, and unfortunately limited, our contemporary reservoir of responses to H5N1, the avian flu virus. This essay turns to an old children's story, "The Story of Chicken-Licken," to recover the folk wisdom obscured with the development of industrial poultry farming. Both the risk of a transspecies outbreak of high pathogen avian flu and the measures promised to ensure our safety in such a crisis are culturall…
Our Posthuman Future
Susan Squier, Catherine Waldby, Anita Silvers, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Paul Lauritzen, Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 35, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 2005), pp. 4-7
Feminist Theory and/of Science
Fetishism and Hysteria
From Omega to Mr. Adam
The simultaneous publication in 1992 of two texts dealing with a global decline in sperm potency, P. D. James’s The Children of Men and Elisabeth Carlsen’s “Evidence for Decreasing Quality of Semen during the Past 50 Years,” inaugurates the exploration of another kind of sterility: the failure of feminist literary criticism and feminist science studies to converge as a fertile zone of inquiry and analysis. This article considers the modern discip…
Interspecies Reproduction
This article explores the image of interspecies reproduction, arguably the most disturbing of the range of contemporary images of reproductive technology, as both a metaphor of some historical standing and as a new, and troubling, medical/scientific capability. Moving from the 1994 report of the Human Embryo Research Panel of the NIH, also known as the Muller Panel, through a range of sites – natural history, popular science writing, social criti…
Feminist Theory and/of Science
From Omega to Mr. Adam
The simultaneous publication in 1992 of two texts dealing with a global decline in sperm potency, P. D. James’s The Children of Men and Elisabeth Carlsen’s “Evidence for Decreasing Quality of Semen during the Past 50 Years,” inaugurates the exploration of another kind of sterility: the failure of feminist literary criticism and feminist science studies to converge as a fertile zone of inquiry and analysis. This article considers the modern discip…
Interspecies Reproduction
This article explores the image of interspecies reproduction, arguably the most disturbing of the range of contemporary images of reproductive technology, as both a metaphor of some historical standing and as a new, and troubling, medical/scientific capability. Moving from the 1994 report of the Human Embryo Research Panel of the NIH, also known as the Muller Panel, through a range of sites – natural history, popular science writing, social criti…
From Omega to Mr. Adam
The simultaneous publication in 1992 of two texts dealing with a global decline in sperm potency, P. D. James’s The Children of Men and Elisabeth Carlsen’s “Evidence for Decreasing Quality of Semen during the Past 50 Years,” inaugurates the exploration of another kind of sterility: the failure of feminist literary criticism and feminist science studies to converge as a fertile zone of inquiry and analysis. This article considers the modern discip…
Fetishism and Hysteria
Feminist Theory and/of Science
Our Posthuman Future
Susan Squier, Catherine Waldby, Anita Silvers, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Paul Lauritzen, Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 35, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 2005), pp. 4-7
The Sky Is Falling
The rhetoric of risk and safety has shaped, and unfortunately limited, our contemporary reservoir of responses to H5N1, the avian flu virus. This essay turns to an old children's story, "The Story of Chicken-Licken," to recover the folk wisdom obscured with the development of industrial poultry farming. Both the risk of a transspecies outbreak of high pathogen avian flu and the measures promised to ensure our safety in such a crisis are culturall…
The Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies of Climate Change Comics
How do we get the news about climate change to readers resistant to it? As a hyperobject, climate change is too big to think about, too traumatic to envision. Both imagination and reason recoil from this wicked problem. In this chapter, I survey a range of recent graphic narratives about climate change, showing how they address the narrative and aesthetic challenges posed by climate change by drawing on strategies specific to the comics medium. T…
Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Commodification (2 works)