Lisa Swanstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1111038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Swanstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Swanstrom |
| SIGNATURE | SWANSTROM L |
| AFFILIATIONS | SFS |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remedios Varo
Charlatans of AI
Notes and Correspondence
The Planet after Geoengineering
My Compliments to your Dressmaker”
389 NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE “My Compliments to your Dressmaker”: The Past and Future of Wearable Tech “Do you think you can gather more information with your eyes than I can with my sensors?” —Dr. Miranda Jones, “Is There in Truth No Beauty?” Star Trek 60 Although Diana Muldaur gives a commanding performance as Dr. Miranda Jones, the telepathic ambassador to the dread Medusan emissary in the fifth episode of the third se…
SF's Queer Ecologies
269 BOOKS IN REVIEW BOOKS IN REVIEW SF’s Queer Ecologies. Bridgitte Barclay and Christy Tidwell, eds. Gender and Environment in Science Fiction. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2019. 215 pp. $95 hc, $39.99 pbk, $38 ebk. In “The Man-Trap,” the first episode of the first season of the first STAR TREK series (1966-1969), a peculiar set of circumstances unfolds on the outpost planet M-113. Here, a mind-reading, shape-shifting, salt-sucking hominid takes the f…
Prosthetic Personhood in R.U.R
153 NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Prosthetic Personhood in R.U.R. Most SFS readers will be aware that Czech playwright Karel Èapek’s R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots, 1920) provides a defining template for all subsequent robot stories, not only through its depictions of artificial persons but also through the very neologism “robot” itself, which stems from the Czech word for “worker” and “slave.” The term is appropriate, for …
Synthetic Sexuality, Plastic Futurity
312 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Synthetic Sexuality, Plastic Futurity. In Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2014), the android Ava is a beautifully molded entity with a human face and synthetic skin. Perhaps the most striking part of her body, however, is her transparent plastic mid-section, which both exposes and protects her luminous wiring. At the same time, the translucent casing calls attention to her artifici…
Science Fiction and the Digital Humanities
Shifting Gears
Serious Literature? Science Fiction at the MLA
External Memory Drives
While William Gibson's cyberpunk fiction is fundamental for understanding the relationship between digitality and science fiction, I suggest that Gibson's most important "digital" work is neither cyberpunk, science fiction, nor even fiction. It is, instead, an autobiographical poem, Agrippa: (A Book of The Dead), published in 1992. Agrippa marks a pivotal point in Gibson's writing for its engagement with actual as opposed to speculative digital e…
CFP
Historicizing the Human
From Gutenberg to Google
Book Review| June 01 2011 From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts; Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now; Poetic Acts and New Media From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts. By Peter L. Shillingsburg. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. v, 216 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.95.Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need …
Machine-Age Comedy; Ex-foliations
Book Review| June 01 2010 Machine-Age Comedy; Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path Lisa Swanstrom Lisa Swanstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 447–449. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Swanstrom; Machine-Age Comedy; Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path. American Lite…
Capsules and Nodes and Ruptures and Flows
This article considers persistent tensions between encapsulation and penetration in the network systems of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1993) that contribute to a networked sense of self, especially in relation to the role of the hacker, who has literal access to the human mind in the novel. The network structures depicted in Snow Crash offer a compelling way to think of subjectivity in circulation: neither completely tied to the Cartesian model…
Science Fiction and the Digital Humanities
Capsules and Nodes and Ruptures and Flows
This article considers persistent tensions between encapsulation and penetration in the network systems of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1993) that contribute to a networked sense of self, especially in relation to the role of the hacker, who has literal access to the human mind in the novel. The network structures depicted in Snow Crash offer a compelling way to think of subjectivity in circulation: neither completely tied to the Cartesian model…
Machine-Age Comedy; Ex-foliations
Book Review| June 01 2010 Machine-Age Comedy; Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path Lisa Swanstrom Lisa Swanstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 447–449. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-018 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Swanstrom; Machine-Age Comedy; Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path. American Lite…
Capsules and Nodes and Ruptures and Flows
This article considers persistent tensions between encapsulation and penetration in the network systems of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1993) that contribute to a networked sense of self, especially in relation to the role of the hacker, who has literal access to the human mind in the novel. The network structures depicted in Snow Crash offer a compelling way to think of subjectivity in circulation: neither completely tied to the Cartesian model…
From Gutenberg to Google
Book Review| June 01 2011 From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts; Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now; Poetic Acts and New Media From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts. By Peter L. Shillingsburg. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. v, 216 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.95.Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need …
Historicizing the Human
External Memory Drives
While William Gibson's cyberpunk fiction is fundamental for understanding the relationship between digitality and science fiction, I suggest that Gibson's most important "digital" work is neither cyberpunk, science fiction, nor even fiction. It is, instead, an autobiographical poem, Agrippa: (A Book of The Dead), published in 1992. Agrippa marks a pivotal point in Gibson's writing for its engagement with actual as opposed to speculative digital e…
CFP
Serious Literature? Science Fiction at the MLA
Science Fiction and the Digital Humanities
Shifting Gears
SF's Queer Ecologies
269 BOOKS IN REVIEW BOOKS IN REVIEW SF’s Queer Ecologies. Bridgitte Barclay and Christy Tidwell, eds. Gender and Environment in Science Fiction. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2019. 215 pp. $95 hc, $39.99 pbk, $38 ebk. In “The Man-Trap,” the first episode of the first season of the first STAR TREK series (1966-1969), a peculiar set of circumstances unfolds on the outpost planet M-113. Here, a mind-reading, shape-shifting, salt-sucking hominid takes the f…
Prosthetic Personhood in R.U.R
153 NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Prosthetic Personhood in R.U.R. Most SFS readers will be aware that Czech playwright Karel Èapek’s R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots, 1920) provides a defining template for all subsequent robot stories, not only through its depictions of artificial persons but also through the very neologism “robot” itself, which stems from the Czech word for “worker” and “slave.” The term is appropriate, for …
Synthetic Sexuality, Plastic Futurity
312 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Synthetic Sexuality, Plastic Futurity. In Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2014), the android Ava is a beautifully molded entity with a human face and synthetic skin. Perhaps the most striking part of her body, however, is her transparent plastic mid-section, which both exposes and protects her luminous wiring. At the same time, the translucent casing calls attention to her artifici…
My Compliments to your Dressmaker”
389 NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE “My Compliments to your Dressmaker”: The Past and Future of Wearable Tech “Do you think you can gather more information with your eyes than I can with my sensors?” —Dr. Miranda Jones, “Is There in Truth No Beauty?” Star Trek 60 Although Diana Muldaur gives a commanding performance as Dr. Miranda Jones, the telepathic ambassador to the dread Medusan emissary in the fifth episode of the third se…
Notes and Correspondence
The Planet after Geoengineering
Charlatans of AI
Remedios Varo
Art (14 works) · Literature (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · History (6 works) · Digital Games and Media (5 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works)