Colin Milburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1112784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Milburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Milburn |
| SIGNATURE | MILBURN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6019-3284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Join the Fold: Video Games, Science Fiction, and the Refolding of Citizen Science
This article explores the value of science fiction narratives in games for citizen science. Focusing on the protein-folding game Foldit, it describes the process of modifying and redesigning the game to feature a framing narrative and other alterations to the main tutorial campaign. The campaign narrative, Foldit: First Contact, situates the practices of citizen science in an expanded context of meanings and ethical implications, promoting critic…
Quantum Technologies and Society: Towards a Different Spin
Due primarily to technological advances over the last decade, quantum research has become a key priority area for science and technology policy all over the world. With this manifesto, we wish to prevent quantum technology from running into fiascos of implementation at the interface of science and society. To this end, we identify key stumbling blocks and propose recommendations
Ahead of Time: Gerald Feinberg and the Governance of Futurity
Looking back at his research on tachyons in the 1960s and 1970s, the physicist Gerald Feinberg recalled that he started thinking about particles that go faster than light after reading James Blish's 1954 science fiction story "Beep." While the technical conceits of Blish's tale may have stirred Feinberg's curiosity, its literary implications were yet more significant. As a story about faster-than-light messages that travel backward in time, "Beep…
Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life
In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Discussing a wide range of games, from Portal and Final Fantasy VII to Super Mario Sunshine and Shadow of the Colossus , Milburn illustrates how they impact the lives of gamers and non-gamers alike. They also serve as resources for critique, resistance, and insurgency, offering a …
Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life
The screen flickers. A siren blares. The future has arrived: "In a.d. 2101 war was beginning. " As flames engulf the bridge of the lead battle cruiser, the captain of the zig fleet asks, "What happen?" The mechanic responds, "Somebody set up us the bomb. " Amid the chaos of explosions, the communications operator shouts, "We get signal. " While the captain strug gles to understand the catastrophe, bellowing an incredulous "What!" to his crew, the…
Thinking Outside Thought
A Useful if Ungrounded Study
Junkware , by Thierry Bardini
Greener on the Other Side: Science Fiction and the Problem of Green Nanotechnology
Green nanotechnology promises high-tech solutions to global ecological challenges. Focused on environmental risks and economic growth in the here and now, the promotional discourse of green nanotechnology firmly rejects science fiction. However, the extent to which green nanotechnology forecloses science fiction actually impedes its own green aspirations. Drawing on the novels of Kim Stanley Robinson-particularly the Mars trilogy and the Science …
Just for Fun: The Playful Image of Nanotechnology
Speculative Genomes and Volatile Futures
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global
Book Review| January 01 2010 Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. By Heise, Ursula K.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 260 pp. Paper $24.95. Colin Milburn Colin Milburn University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2010) 47 (4): 551–555. https:…
Modifiable Futures: Science Fiction at the Bench
Science fiction remains an alien dimension of the history of science. Historical and literary studies of science have become increasingly attentive to various "literary technologies" in scientific practice, the metaphorical features of scientific discourse, and the impact of popular science writing on the social development of scientific knowledge. But the function of science fiction and even literature as such in the history of scientific and te…
Nano/Splatter: Disintegrating the Postbiological Body
Nano/Splatter:Disintegrating the Postbiological Body Colin Milburn (bio) This much we know; that it isn't simply our lives at stake, but the very biology that supports them. —Wil McCarthy, Bloom (1998) Let the bodies hit the floor. —Drowning Pool, "Bodies" (2001) Nanobiology and the Machinic Phylum At the intersection of biotechnology and nanotechnology, in the hybrid frontier of "nanobiology," we find the future. The future of technoscience and …
Monsters in Eden: Darwin and Derrida
Focusing on the tropology of the monster within the writings of Charles Darwin and Jacques Derrida, this essay demonstrates certain significant linkages joining Darwinism to deconstruction. The monstrous relations between Darwin and Derrida--both genealogical and intertextual--reveal themselves in shared evolutionary-deconstructive approaches to the concept of species, the metaphor of the book of nature, and the mythology of the Garden of Eden. C…
Nanotechnology in the Age of Posthuman Engineering: Science Fiction as Science
K. Eric Drexler, pioneer and popularizer of the emerging science of nanotechnology, has summarized the ultimate goal of his field as "thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter." 1 Nanotechnology is the practical manipulation of atoms; it is engineering conducted on the molecular scale. Many scientists involved in this ambitious program envision building nanoscopic machines, often called "assemblers" or "nanobots," that will be u…
Modifiable Futures: Science Fiction at the Bench
Science fiction remains an alien dimension of the history of science. Historical and literary studies of science have become increasingly attentive to various "literary technologies" in scientific practice, the metaphorical features of scientific discourse, and the impact of popular science writing on the social development of scientific knowledge. But the function of science fiction and even literature as such in the history of scientific and te…
Quantum Technologies and Society: Towards a Different Spin
Due primarily to technological advances over the last decade, quantum research has become a key priority area for science and technology policy all over the world. With this manifesto, we wish to prevent quantum technology from running into fiascos of implementation at the interface of science and society. To this end, we identify key stumbling blocks and propose recommendations
Nanotechnology in the Age of Posthuman Engineering: Science Fiction as Science
K. Eric Drexler, pioneer and popularizer of the emerging science of nanotechnology, has summarized the ultimate goal of his field as "thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter." 1 Nanotechnology is the practical manipulation of atoms; it is engineering conducted on the molecular scale. Many scientists involved in this ambitious program envision building nanoscopic machines, often called "assemblers" or "nanobots," that will be u…
Greener on the Other Side: Science Fiction and the Problem of Green Nanotechnology
Green nanotechnology promises high-tech solutions to global ecological challenges. Focused on environmental risks and economic growth in the here and now, the promotional discourse of green nanotechnology firmly rejects science fiction. However, the extent to which green nanotechnology forecloses science fiction actually impedes its own green aspirations. Drawing on the novels of Kim Stanley Robinson-particularly the Mars trilogy and the Science …
Just for Fun: The Playful Image of Nanotechnology
Nano/Splatter: Disintegrating the Postbiological Body
Nano/Splatter:Disintegrating the Postbiological Body Colin Milburn (bio) This much we know; that it isn't simply our lives at stake, but the very biology that supports them. —Wil McCarthy, Bloom (1998) Let the bodies hit the floor. —Drowning Pool, "Bodies" (2001) Nanobiology and the Machinic Phylum At the intersection of biotechnology and nanotechnology, in the hybrid frontier of "nanobiology," we find the future. The future of technoscience and …
Monsters in Eden: Darwin and Derrida
Focusing on the tropology of the monster within the writings of Charles Darwin and Jacques Derrida, this essay demonstrates certain significant linkages joining Darwinism to deconstruction. The monstrous relations between Darwin and Derrida--both genealogical and intertextual--reveal themselves in shared evolutionary-deconstructive approaches to the concept of species, the metaphor of the book of nature, and the mythology of the Garden of Eden. C…
Nanotechnology in the Age of Posthuman Engineering: Science Fiction as Science
K. Eric Drexler, pioneer and popularizer of the emerging science of nanotechnology, has summarized the ultimate goal of his field as "thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter." 1 Nanotechnology is the practical manipulation of atoms; it is engineering conducted on the molecular scale. Many scientists involved in this ambitious program envision building nanoscopic machines, often called "assemblers" or "nanobots," that will be u…
Monsters in Eden: Darwin and Derrida
Focusing on the tropology of the monster within the writings of Charles Darwin and Jacques Derrida, this essay demonstrates certain significant linkages joining Darwinism to deconstruction. The monstrous relations between Darwin and Derrida--both genealogical and intertextual--reveal themselves in shared evolutionary-deconstructive approaches to the concept of species, the metaphor of the book of nature, and the mythology of the Garden of Eden. C…
Nano/Splatter: Disintegrating the Postbiological Body
Nano/Splatter:Disintegrating the Postbiological Body Colin Milburn (bio) This much we know; that it isn't simply our lives at stake, but the very biology that supports them. —Wil McCarthy, Bloom (1998) Let the bodies hit the floor. —Drowning Pool, "Bodies" (2001) Nanobiology and the Machinic Phylum At the intersection of biotechnology and nanotechnology, in the hybrid frontier of "nanobiology," we find the future. The future of technoscience and …
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global
Book Review| January 01 2010 Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. By Heise, Ursula K.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 260 pp. Paper $24.95. Colin Milburn Colin Milburn University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2010) 47 (4): 551–555. https:…
Modifiable Futures: Science Fiction at the Bench
Science fiction remains an alien dimension of the history of science. Historical and literary studies of science have become increasingly attentive to various "literary technologies" in scientific practice, the metaphorical features of scientific discourse, and the impact of popular science writing on the social development of scientific knowledge. But the function of science fiction and even literature as such in the history of scientific and te…
Just for Fun: The Playful Image of Nanotechnology
Speculative Genomes and Volatile Futures
Junkware , by Thierry Bardini
Greener on the Other Side: Science Fiction and the Problem of Green Nanotechnology
Green nanotechnology promises high-tech solutions to global ecological challenges. Focused on environmental risks and economic growth in the here and now, the promotional discourse of green nanotechnology firmly rejects science fiction. However, the extent to which green nanotechnology forecloses science fiction actually impedes its own green aspirations. Drawing on the novels of Kim Stanley Robinson-particularly the Mars trilogy and the Science …
A Useful if Ungrounded Study
Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life
In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Discussing a wide range of games, from Portal and Final Fantasy VII to Super Mario Sunshine and Shadow of the Colossus , Milburn illustrates how they impact the lives of gamers and non-gamers alike. They also serve as resources for critique, resistance, and insurgency, offering a …
Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life
The screen flickers. A siren blares. The future has arrived: "In a.d. 2101 war was beginning. " As flames engulf the bridge of the lead battle cruiser, the captain of the zig fleet asks, "What happen?" The mechanic responds, "Somebody set up us the bomb. " Amid the chaos of explosions, the communications operator shouts, "We get signal. " While the captain strug gles to understand the catastrophe, bellowing an incredulous "What!" to his crew, the…
Thinking Outside Thought
Ahead of Time: Gerald Feinberg and the Governance of Futurity
Looking back at his research on tachyons in the 1960s and 1970s, the physicist Gerald Feinberg recalled that he started thinking about particles that go faster than light after reading James Blish's 1954 science fiction story "Beep." While the technical conceits of Blish's tale may have stirred Feinberg's curiosity, its literary implications were yet more significant. As a story about faster-than-light messages that travel backward in time, "Beep…
Quantum Technologies and Society: Towards a Different Spin
Due primarily to technological advances over the last decade, quantum research has become a key priority area for science and technology policy all over the world. With this manifesto, we wish to prevent quantum technology from running into fiascos of implementation at the interface of science and society. To this end, we identify key stumbling blocks and propose recommendations
Join the Fold: Video Games, Science Fiction, and the Refolding of Citizen Science
This article explores the value of science fiction narratives in games for citizen science. Focusing on the protein-folding game Foldit, it describes the process of modifying and redesigning the game to feature a framing narrative and other alterations to the main tutorial campaign. The campaign narrative, Foldit: First Contact, situates the practices of citizen science in an expanded context of meanings and ethical implications, promoting critic…
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