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Inledning, kommentarer och översättning av Elisabeth Mansén

Om poesi och vår förtjusning över naturens skönhet: Tankar av Mary Wollstonecraft, översättning, inledning och kommentarer av Elisabeth Mansén (2023)

Efterskrift till Elin Kvicklund, Syner av grönt i vattenskuggan (2023)

Förord till boken: Mary/Maria av Mary Wollstonecraft (översättning av: Erik Carlquist), 2023

Gustaf III var en komplex person, djupt engagerad i 1700-talets politiska, filosofiska och kulturella frågor. Hans brev, skrivelser och tal visar honom som en författare med stor variation och precision. Som regent, mecenat och mångsidig författare var Gustaf III sin tids viktigaste kulturpersonlighet, enigmatisk och kontroversiell såväl då som nu. I citatsamlingen Dixit presenteras Gustaf III:s ord och tankar, tematiskt indelade i ämnen som liv och död, kärlek och vänskap, lycka, resor, mode, politik och revolutioner.

Two common problems in Remote Guidance applications include the remote guides lack of direct control over their view into the worker’s physical environment and the difficulties that arise with trying to place virtual 3D objects in a real 3D environment,via a moving, shaky, 2D image.The first issue can be called a lack of remote spatial awareness, the guide can see only what the worker enables them to see. In the worst case the guide is rendered blind to the task environment while the worker is unable to use their device. A common occurrence is tasks that require both hands.The second issue arises from the inherent difficulty present in trying to correctly place a 3D object using only a limited perspective. Camera shake and unreliable tracking of the physical environment being depicted only further add to this problem. Studies show that 3D annotations make for much more effective means of communication, especially in 3D task environments. Allowing the guide some measure of control over their own view has also been shown to improve the guides ability to aid their partner. This paper investigates a method of Remote Guidance where the task of environment tracking and object placement are separated. A prototype application is developed and tested against a baseline 2D-annotation Remote Guidance tool. The study finds the prototype to be an effective way of placing virtual 3D objects in a remote environment. Experimental results show that communication is indeed made better by the inclusion of 3D objects into Remote Guidance. This comes at the cost of a slight increase in the timetaken to complete a task as the complexity of the 3D tool is greater than the 2D one. Unfortunately, the experiment performed fails to properly account for remote spatial awareness.

Brev från en resa i Sverige, Norge och Danmark av Mary Wollstonecraft, översättning, inledning, noter & kommentarer: Elisabeth Mansén

In this essay, an interdisciplinary group of researchers sets out to address the period 1780–1840 in Sweden in a new way, by placing nature at its centre. With the help of ecocritical and transcultural theory, combined with renewed attention to the Swedish fine arts, learned discourses, and practices, we suggest a new approach to these revolutionary decades. The perceived dissonance, the interplay between climatic conditions and cultural template in early modern and modern Sweden, has not been fully addressed in current research, despite the fact that the relationship between humankind and the environment is a central issue in contemporary society and scholarship. Representations of nature situate the nation, they negotiate the relationship between a sensed reality and an ideal, between human and more-than-human beings. We suggest a focus on the unpredictable space created by negotiations of nature in Swedish representations during this crucial period, and, furthermore, on the ways in which this creative space is charged with utopian possibilities in the early Anthropocene. This is the background and the driving force of the planned research project ‘Cool Nature: Utopian Landscapes in Sweden 1780–1840’.