Lindsay Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsay Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-3909-5971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thinking with Robots
The word robot first appeared in English in 1922, in a translated New York production of the Czech writer Karel Čapek’s 1920 play, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). There, it echoes the words for labor (robota) and laborer or serf (robotnik), from a range of Slavic languages, including Čapek’s Czech, in which robota specifically suggests forced labor or drudgery. In Čapek’s play, an international success translated into over thirty languages wi…
What We Learned About the Humanities from a Study of Thousands of Newspaper Articles
How might a computational analysis of the humanities in public discourse inform future efforts in humanities education and research? This question motivates this short essay; here, we reflect on key arguments from our longer article “The Humanities in Public: A Computational Analysis of US National and Campus Newspapers” with an eye toward imagining possible use cases and applications for our findings. After summarizing our main claims, we sugges…
The Humanities in Public
Academic defenses of the humanities often make two assumptions: first, that the overwhelming public perception of the humanities is one of crisis, and second, that our understanding of what the humanities mean is best traced through a lineage of famous reference points, from Matthew Arnold to the Harvard Redbook. We challenge these assumptions by reconsidering the humanities from the perspective of a corpus of over 147,000 relatively recent natio…
What Everyone Says
Using computational means to understand patterns in how the humanities are mentioned in U.S. journalism, the WhatEvery1Says project brings into focus challenging problems in the perception of the humanities. This essay reports on the project's findings and some of the further questions that emerged from them. For example, how does the “humanities crisis” appear among the many crises of our time? Why do the humanities figure so often in connection…
Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American LiteratureThe Poetics of InsecurityConsuming Catastrophe
Can we speak of a literary, or of a critical, disaster studies? If so, what would its archives look like, and what methods might we employ in examining them? The three books under review offer diverging answers to these questions. The authors provide a diverse sampling of recent work on the rhetoric, aesthetics, and politics of disaster that is now emerging in American literary and cultural studies.John Hay’s Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebell…
Forms of Duration
This essay examines two kinds of speculative fiction focused on the management of climate change: preparedness documents on climate change as a threat to national security, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (1993-96), a science fiction trilogy about the terraformation and colonization of Mars. Focusing on narrative scenarios and exercises that train officials to respond to natural disasters, this essay positions these preparedness documents…
Pandemics of the future
This paper explores disease surveillance systems in relation to preparedness, a security paradigm that strives to make future catastrophic events available for “real time” intervention in the present. I examine three different disease surveillance systems — the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System, which is composed of physical laboratories and online information dissemination tools; Flu Trends, an algorithmic syndromic surveillance …
Pandemics of the future
This paper explores disease surveillance systems in relation to preparedness, a security paradigm that strives to make future catastrophic events available for “real time” intervention in the present. I examine three different disease surveillance systems — the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System, which is composed of physical laboratories and online information dissemination tools; Flu Trends, an algorithmic syndromic surveillance …
Forms of Duration
This essay examines two kinds of speculative fiction focused on the management of climate change: preparedness documents on climate change as a threat to national security, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (1993-96), a science fiction trilogy about the terraformation and colonization of Mars. Focusing on narrative scenarios and exercises that train officials to respond to natural disasters, this essay positions these preparedness documents…
Pandemics of the future
This paper explores disease surveillance systems in relation to preparedness, a security paradigm that strives to make future catastrophic events available for “real time” intervention in the present. I examine three different disease surveillance systems — the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System, which is composed of physical laboratories and online information dissemination tools; Flu Trends, an algorithmic syndromic surveillance …
Forms of Duration
This essay examines two kinds of speculative fiction focused on the management of climate change: preparedness documents on climate change as a threat to national security, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (1993-96), a science fiction trilogy about the terraformation and colonization of Mars. Focusing on narrative scenarios and exercises that train officials to respond to natural disasters, this essay positions these preparedness documents…
Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American LiteratureThe Poetics of InsecurityConsuming Catastrophe
Can we speak of a literary, or of a critical, disaster studies? If so, what would its archives look like, and what methods might we employ in examining them? The three books under review offer diverging answers to these questions. The authors provide a diverse sampling of recent work on the rhetoric, aesthetics, and politics of disaster that is now emerging in American literary and cultural studies.John Hay’s Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebell…
What We Learned About the Humanities from a Study of Thousands of Newspaper Articles
How might a computational analysis of the humanities in public discourse inform future efforts in humanities education and research? This question motivates this short essay; here, we reflect on key arguments from our longer article “The Humanities in Public: A Computational Analysis of US National and Campus Newspapers” with an eye toward imagining possible use cases and applications for our findings. After summarizing our main claims, we sugges…
The Humanities in Public
Academic defenses of the humanities often make two assumptions: first, that the overwhelming public perception of the humanities is one of crisis, and second, that our understanding of what the humanities mean is best traced through a lineage of famous reference points, from Matthew Arnold to the Harvard Redbook. We challenge these assumptions by reconsidering the humanities from the perspective of a corpus of over 147,000 relatively recent natio…
What Everyone Says
Using computational means to understand patterns in how the humanities are mentioned in U.S. journalism, the WhatEvery1Says project brings into focus challenging problems in the perception of the humanities. This essay reports on the project's findings and some of the further questions that emerged from them. For example, how does the “humanities crisis” appear among the many crises of our time? Why do the humanities figure so often in connection…
Thinking with Robots
The word robot first appeared in English in 1922, in a translated New York production of the Czech writer Karel Čapek’s 1920 play, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). There, it echoes the words for labor (robota) and laborer or serf (robotnik), from a range of Slavic languages, including Čapek’s Czech, in which robota specifically suggests forced labor or drudgery. In Čapek’s play, an international success translated into over thirty languages wi…
Art (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Digital humanities (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)