Stephen Darren Dougherty

• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2025). From Pure Language to Word Embeddings: Benjamin, Metaphysics, and Machine Translation. Translation Review (TR). ISSN 0737-4836. 121, s. 15–24. doi: 10.1080/07374836.2025.2460943. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2025). Plasticity at the Dawn of Deep Learning. University of Toronto quarterly. ISSN 0042-0247. 94(2), s. 202–216. doi: 10.3138/utq.94.02.06. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article explores Catherine Malabou’s philosophical concepts presented in her book Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing and their unexpected relevance to the emergence of deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Malabou diagnoses the eclipse of traditional writing and deconstruction, replacing it with the concept of plasticity, a transformative and adaptive capacity. The article examines how Malabou’s ideas prefigure the development of large language models like ChatGPT, which embody plasticity through their dynamic neural architectures. Despite not directly addressing AI, Malabou’s work anticipates the shift toward a new form of writing and knowledge production driven by machine learning.

• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2024). A Collaborative Glossary of Terms: Plasticity and Posthumanism. I Tabbi, Joseph Paul (Red.), The Cambridge introduction to literary posthumanism. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781009256476. s. 162–197. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2024). Gender, Fairy Tale, and Ecology in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'A White Heron'. Polilog. Studia Neofilologiczne. ISSN 2083-5485. s. 19–31. doi: 10.34858/polilog.14.2024.413. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This essay situates Sarah Orne Jewett’s short story A White Heron within the related con-texts of children’s literature, the fairy tale, and crit ical ecofeminism, featuring comparative analysis of Jewett’s story and Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves. Both stories are at least partly re-imaginings of Little Red Riding Hood, and both stories pursue what I identify as comparable ecofeminist or proto-ecofeminist agendas.While I argue it is Jewett’s shy and withdrawn protagonist Sylvia who is actually the more convincing ecofeminist warrior, and not Carter’s bold and aggressive heroine, it is only after Sylvia escapes from the story of Little Red Riding Hood that she becomes so; it is only after this intertextual dimension of A White Heron disappears from Jewett’s storytelling that Sylvia assumes an ecofeminist mantle, and a decisively moral status.

• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2024). Olaf Stapledon's Thwarted Cosmopolitics in 'Last and First Men' and 'Star Maker'. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 51(2), s. 202–220. doi: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a931152. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2024). When Robots Choose to Die. Liz W. Faber. Robot Suicide: Death, Identity, and AI in Science Fiction. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 51(1), s. 105–107. doi: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a920239. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2023). Response to John Cayley’s ‘Modelit'. Electronic Book Review (EBR). doi: 10.7273/zvz6-9024. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2022). At the Crossroads...': Essence and Accidents in Catherine Malabou's Philosophy of Plasticity. I Lushetich, Natasha; Campbell, Iain C. & Smith, Dominic (Red.), Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISSN 9781538171578. s. 219–234. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2021). Plasticity and the Event of Literature: Reading Catherine Malabou with Anne Carson. I Mukim, Mantra & Attridge, Derek (Red.), Twenty-First Century Reformulations. Routledge. ISSN 9781003171461. doi: 10.4324/9781003171461. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2021). "Messages from the Stars: 2001: A Space Odyssey and His Master's Voice". Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 48(2), s. 306–331. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2021). We Need to Talk About English: On National Literature Surveys and Other Aspects of the Curriculum. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 20(2), s. 249–266. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2020). Holbergprisen 2019: Paul Gilroy. Agder Vitenskapsakademi Årbok. ISSN 0809-7283. Årbok 2019, s. 223–227. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2019). "The Life in Death of Psychoanalysis". Mosaic. ISSN 0027-1276. 52(1), s. 69–85. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2019). "Liu Cixin, Arthur C. Clarke, and “Repositioning”. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 46(1), s. 39–62. doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.46.1.0039. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2018). "Victor's Responsibility and the Monster's Favorite Books: Allegory, Technology, and Romantic Ideology in _Frankenstein_". Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture. ISSN 0862-8424. 28, s. 19–33. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2017). "Radio, the Genome, and Greg Bear's Biological Fiction". Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 44(1), s. 104–121. doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.44.1.0104. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2017). "Adam Roberts, Reader's Writer". Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 44(3), s. 581–586. doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.44.3.0581. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2017). "Vagabonds, The Death Ship, and Denationalization". Papers on Language and Literature. ISSN 0031-1294. 53(4), s. 323–346. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2017). The Machine in the Garden in the 21st century. American Studies in Scandinavia. ISSN 0044-8060. 49(1), s. 83–99. doi: 10.22439/asca.v49i1.5464. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2014). "Adam Roberts's Alien Invasion". Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 41(3), s. 597–616. doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.41.3.0597. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2013). The Dangerous Rays of the Future: Democracy, Media, Science Fiction. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 40, s. 510–528. doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.40.3.0510. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2012). Embodiment and Technicity in Geoff Ryman's Air. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 39, s. 40–59. doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.39.1.0040. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this essay I read Geoff Ryman's novel Air (2004) as a rumination on the process whereby our orientation to the world is modified by the introduction of new media technology. The imagined technology in Ryman's novel-Air-is the Internet without physical interface: it is the World Wide Web plugged directly into people's minds. In terms of the logic of the narrative, Air is and is not the Internet. Ryman uses this gap between similitude and difference to open up some critical distance for readers to reflect on the physical and psychical effects of the Internet and other digital communications technologies.

• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2011). Postdeconstruction and the Rhetorics of Touch. Journal for Cultural Research. ISSN 1479-7585. 15(1), s. 75–92. doi: 10.1080/14797585.2011.525105. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Discourses of touch have become important discursive sites around which questions concerning the body, its materiality, and its place in the sphere of cultural analysis are currently arrayed — the powers of touch that we postulate influence our understanding of the limits and capacities of both our bodies and the technologies through which we extend our bodily touch. What is at stake in the contestation of touch, then, are really questions about communication and community. How does this bodily reorientation in the humanities and in the social sciences affect our understanding of how we communicate, and what we communicate? How does it impact our thinking about our embodied relation to communication technologies? In order to address these questions, we must first consider how (and why) some of these new rhetorics of touch announce themselves as 'post‐deconstructive'. That is, we must understand that the relation between these new rhetorics of touch and deconstruction is critical to their constitution. This essay explores three books — Ann Weinstone's "Avatar Bodies" (2004), Erin Manning's "Politics of Touch" (2007), and Jean‐Luc Nancy's "Being Singular Plural" (2000) — wherein this relation is negotiated.

• Dougherty, Stephen (2010). Computing the Unconscious. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. ISSN 0033-2828. 79(1), s. 171–201. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This essay examines the unconscious as modeled by cognitive science and compares it to the psychoanalytic unconscious. In making this comparsion, the author underscores the important but usually overlooked fact that computational psychology and psychoanalytic theory are both varieties of posthumanism. He argues that if posthumanism is to advance a vision for our future that is no longer fixated on a normative image of the human, then its own normative claims about the primacy of Darwinian functioning must be disrupted and undermined through a renewed emphasis on its Freudian heritage.

• Dougherty, Stephen (2010). Autism and Modular Minds in Elizabeth Moon's "The Speed of Dark". Mosaic. ISSN 0027-1276. 43(4), s. 35–50. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The classical cognitive scientific model of autism purports to explain why we are social creatures. Yet it has attempted to do so through varieties of the mind-as-computer analogy, which undermines the model's ability to carry out its analyses of society. I investigate this problematic through the lens of Elizabeth Moon's novel about autism, "The Speed of Dark".

• Dougherty, Stephen (2008). Beat Vision: What Americans Don't See On the Road. American Studies in Scandinavia. ISSN 0044-8060. 40(1-2), s. 3–13. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen (2007). New Media's Body. Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture. ISSN 0862-8424. s. 66–78. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2026). Persons, Corporations, Group Minds, and Replicants: The Science Fiction of the Fourteenth Amendment. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2026). "The Bicentennial Man" at America250: Asimov and the Fragility of Personhood. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2025). Between Genome and Code: The Interplay of Genetic Engineering and AI in Speculative Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2025). Speculative Visions of Language Theories and Geopolitics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Slotnes, Oda Sagebakken; Vatne, Helle Marie & Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2025). Litteraturens mønstre: Migration Literature with Stephen Dougherty. doi: https:/player.captivate.fm/episode/3616f2e9-fb5f-4bfc-97de-bcf462e9dd79/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Episode 19: What is migration literature? How have the immigrant experience shaped American fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? In conversation with Professor Stephen Dougherty, this episode addresses how American writers engage with displacement and identity, with examples ranging from Willa Cather's My Antonia to Junot Diaz' The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao.

• Dougherty, Stephen Darren; Haas, Astrid; Rabitsch, Stefan & Rice, Curt (2025). Challenging Times for American Studies. doi: https:/asanor.org/events/online-event-challenging-times-for-american-studies/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The U.S. is historically the most important research partner for Norwegian academia. For decades, collaborations with U.S. academics and higher education institutions have constituted a central part of Norwegian strategies for internationalization. How has this changed recently? What are the new challenges for Norwegian internationalization? What are the new risks, and possibly, new opportunities?

• Dougherty, Stephen Darren & Jonsson, Emelie (2025). Academic track: Showcasing ongoing SF/F teaching/research in Norway #1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  1) Speculative Vision of Language Theories and Geopolitics, 2) Deep and Twisty Roots: Scientific Romance, Scientification, and You

• Dougherty, Stephen Darren & Erdmann, Susan Lynn (2025). Special Issue Editorial. Translation Review (TR). ISSN 0737-4836. 121(1), s. 1–3. doi: 10.1080/07374836.2025.2460939. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2024). Democracy and Science Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2024). Thinking About the Global Turn Expansively. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2024). Let the Light Shine Through: A review of Paul Matthews's Transparent Minds in Science Fiction. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 51(3), s. 477–480. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2023). The Sound of Mr. Gum. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2023). Walter Benjamin's Language Metaphysics, Inside and Outside Translation Studies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2023). Democracy and Science Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2022). "Reflections on the Material History of Our Drifting Planet". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2021). "Copernican Remains". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2021). "Copernican Remains". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2021). "Catherine Malabou, Anne Carson, and the Plasticity of Inheritance". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2020). "Olaf Stapledon, Immanuel Kant and the Fiction of Aliens, or Cosmopolitanism in the Interwar Period". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2020). "Plasticity's Indeterminacy: Catherine Malabou on the Brain, Temporality, and Change". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2020). "Event, Non-Event, and Interpretation: Catherine Malabou with Anne Carson". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2019). "History in a Minor Key," review of Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature, Ben Carver. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 46(2), s. 386–391. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2019). "Paul Gilroy/Holberg Prize". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Erdmann, Susan Lynn & Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2019). Intercultural higher education; whose language? whose culture. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Erdmann, Susan Lynn & Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2019). Frenemies; Teaching culture when culture goes off the rails. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2017). "Translation, Innovation and Simulation". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2017). "Messages from the Stars: Posthumanist Grand Narratives in Science Fiction". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2017). "Liu Cixin, Arthur C. Clarke, and Global Science Fiction". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2016). “Interstellar Translation”. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2016). “Passports and Death Ships”. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2016). “Computers and Communion: Phenomenology in Advancement of Digital Technology”. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2016). “Innovation as Simulation/Innovation as Translation”. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2016). “The Life in Death of Psychoanalysis”. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2016). "Electing the President". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2016). "The U.S. Presidential Election Process". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2015). "The Life in Death of Psychoanalysis". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2015). “What’s the Difference Between a Machine and a Garden? On Leo Marx and Contemporary Ecological Thought”. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2014). "Radio Genome". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2014). "Liu Cixin's Sense of Wonder". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2014). "Leibniz Time", Review of Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature, by Elana Gomel. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 41(3), s. 655–658. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2014). "Hybrid Banks", Review of The Transgressive Iain Banks, Martin Colebrook and Katherine Cox eds. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 41(2), s. 443–445. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2013). "Chernobyl as Window on SF/History in Adam Roberts’s Yellow Blue Tibia". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2013). "The Self Is a Reader, The Reader a Time Traveler", Review of Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative by David Wittenberg. Science Fiction Studies. ISSN 0091-7729. 40(3), s. 529–533. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2012). Lacan’s Language Lesson: Metaphor and Metonymy in Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Neuroscience. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2011). Is the Internet Alive? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen Darren (2011). New Media, Science Fiction, and the Public Sphere in Robert J. Sawyer’s "www" Trilogy. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen (2010). Embodiment and Technicity in Geoff Ryman's "Air". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen (2010). Remediation and the Politics of Information in Geoff Ryman's <i>Air</i>. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen (2009). The Two Touches. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen (2008). Democracy, Decontruction, and the Future. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen (2007). How to Do Words With Things : Review of Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics, by Ira Livingston. Electronic Book Review (EBR). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen (2007). New Media's Body. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Dougherty, Stephen (2007). Keeping Our Vision in the Digital Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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