Susan Vanderborg
Biographic Data
| ID | 6095338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Vanderborg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Vanderborg |
| SIGNATURE | VANDERBORG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Political Remediations in Interactive Fiction
This essay reads Emily Short and Liza Daly’s First Draft of the Revolution (2012) as a leading example of recent digital interactive fiction that uses remediations for political critique. The clashes and contradictions in First Draft ’s remediations of paper texts are where the piece discloses the propaganda of a suppressive regime as well as challenges the idea of a new medium’s immanent revolutionary potential. The essay briefly traces interact…
Transgenic Poetry
Transgenic poetry, in which a verbal text is coded as DNA and placed within a life form, has both extended and called into question some of the most basic generic conventions of poetry. This essay uses theories of parasitic language to examine transgenic poetry's emphasis on noise and loss, focusing on two prominent texts engaged with human reshaping of the environment: Eduardo Kac's Genesis and Christian Bok's ongoing The Xenotext Experiment
Corrigienda
Gendering “Otherspace”
This essay analyzes an sf text that challenges stereotypes about women and language transmission through its experiments with stylistic features of the book form—not only narrative conventions, but also rules of typography, margins, and page layouts. The text is Otherspace: Martian Ty/opography, a 1992 collaboration by book artists Johanna Drucker and Brad Freeman. The presentation of different verbal and visual passages on its page spreads is ex…
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Corrigienda
Gendering “Otherspace”
This essay analyzes an sf text that challenges stereotypes about women and language transmission through its experiments with stylistic features of the book form—not only narrative conventions, but also rules of typography, margins, and page layouts. The text is Otherspace: Martian Ty/opography, a 1992 collaboration by book artists Johanna Drucker and Brad Freeman. The presentation of different verbal and visual passages on its page spreads is ex…
Transgenic Poetry
Transgenic poetry, in which a verbal text is coded as DNA and placed within a life form, has both extended and called into question some of the most basic generic conventions of poetry. This essay uses theories of parasitic language to examine transgenic poetry's emphasis on noise and loss, focusing on two prominent texts engaged with human reshaping of the environment: Eduardo Kac's Genesis and Christian Bok's ongoing The Xenotext Experiment
Political Remediations in Interactive Fiction
This essay reads Emily Short and Liza Daly’s First Draft of the Revolution (2012) as a leading example of recent digital interactive fiction that uses remediations for political critique. The clashes and contradictions in First Draft ’s remediations of paper texts are where the piece discloses the propaganda of a suppressive regime as well as challenges the idea of a new medium’s immanent revolutionary potential. The essay briefly traces interact…
Art (4 works) · Art history (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Astrobiology (1 work) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Digital Games and Media (1 work) · Genetics (1 work)