[2][3] He is the author and editor of 19 nonfictions, including the prize-winning[citation needed] Ars Americana, Ars Politica (2010) and the staple of American popular culture studies From Lowbrow to Nobrow (2005).

[citation needed] He obtained his doctorate summa cum laude from McGill University in Montreal, in 1996.

[11] A number of his monographs, collections, as well as articles from the Times Literary Supplement to the MIT Technology Review and other venues deal with the analysis of the work of the writer and philosopher Stanislaw Lem.

[citation needed] In 2012 Ars Americana was the subject of Professor Swirski's plenary lecture at UNE's Institute for Global Humanities alongside Noam Chomsky and other speakers.

[14] In March 2015, he was a keynoter at the Millennium International Documentary Film Festival in Brussels.