Academic publications

Refereed journal papers:

• Raven PG (in press) “Rough guides and carbon ruins: the role of sf (studies) in the (re)construction of decarbonised futures.” Extrapolations (SI: Petromodernities)
• Raven PG (2021) “Rust (City) Never Sleeps.” Riffs 5 (1) (SI: Popular Music Futures)
• Raven PG (2021) “From predictive product to polyphonic practices: techniques of futuring beyond business-as-usual.” Alluvium 9:3 (Futurity in Crisis SI)
• Raven PG, Stripple J (2020) “Touring the carbon ruins: towards an ethics of speculative decarbonisation.” Global Discourse
• Raven PG (2017) “(Re)narrating the societal cyborg: a definition of infrastructure, an interrogation of integration.” People, Place & Policy
• Raven PG (2017) “Telling tomorrows: science fiction as an energy futures research tool.” Energy Research & Social Science
• Raven PG (2016) “The rhetorics of futurity: scenarios, design fiction, prototypes, and other evaporated modalities of science fiction.” Foundation: the International Review of Science Fiction [full-text available in French translation]
• Raven PG (2015) “Imagining the impossible: the shifting role of utopian thought in civic planning, science fiction, and futures studies.” Journal of Futures Studies
• Raven PG, Elahi S (2015) “The New Narrative: applying narratology to the shaping of futures outputs” Futures
• Keraca F, Raven PG, Machell J, Camci F (2014) “A comparative analysis framework for assessing the sustainability of a combined water and energy infrastructure” Technological Forecasting & Social Change
• Raven P G (2014) “The future’s four quarters: proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts” Technological Forecasting & Social Change
• Keraca F, Camci F, Raven PG (2013) “City Blood: A Visionary Infrastructure Solution for Household Energy Provision through Water Distribution Networks” Energy
• Karaca F, Raven PG, Machell J, Varga L, Camci F, Chitchyan R, Boxall J, Ulanicki B, Skworcow P, Strzelecka A, Ozawa-Meida L, Janus T (2013) “Single infrastructure utility provision to households: technological feasibility study” Futures

Chapters in edited volumes:

• Raven, PG (in press) “Writing energy”, in The Routledge Handbook of Energy Humanities, G MacDonald, J Stewart (eds.)
• Raven, PG (in press) “Rough guides and carbon ruins: narrative prototyping for reconfigured sociotechnical futurities”, in The Routledge Handbook of Energy Humanities, G MacDonald, J Stewart (eds.)
• Raven, PG (2022) “From TINA to TAMA: social futures and democratic dreaming in the ruins of capitalist realism”, in Being Human during Covid-19, P Martin, S de Saille (eds.), Bristol UP
• Raven, PG (2022) “Bruce Sterling”, in Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture, A McFarlane, GJ Murphy & L Schmeink, L (eds.), Routledge
• Raven, PG (2021) “Policy without polity: the ‘smart city’”, in The Handbook of Social Futures, M Buscher, C Lopez Galviz, A Nordin, E Spiers (eds.)
• Raven, PG (2021) “Experts in their own tomorrows: placemaking for participatory climate futures”, in The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking, C Courage et al. (eds.)
• Raven PG (2016) “New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomised Text in a Networked World” in Adam Roberts: Critical Essays, McFarlane A & Callow C (eds.) Gylphi, Kent, UK (longlisted for the BSFA Best Non-Fiction Award 2017)

Conference papers:

• “The Museum of Carbon Ruins” (dramatic performance); Petrocultures 2022, 24-27 August 2022, Stavanger, Norway
• “Utopias in the making: speculation as co-production, and a praxis of hope”; FinnCon2022 (academic track), 8-10 July 2022, University of Aalto, Finland
• “Utopias in the making: sf(nal) speculation as co-production, and a praxis of hope”; SFRA2022, 27 June – 1 July 2022, University of Oslo, Norway
• “Author[is]ing utopia: ongoing experiments with science fiction for social futures”; SpecFic2021, 1-3 December 2021, Karlstad University, Sweden
• “Reefer madness: the double externalisation of packaging, and the overextension of the metasystemic prosthesis”; Container Technologies Workshop, 29-31 March 2021, Potsdam University, Germany (virtual workshop/conference)
• “Ethnography (and/of) precarious urban futures: exploring urban precarity through co-productive and creative techniques of futuring”; Urban Europe, Precarious Futures?, 2 December 2020, Coventry University, UK (virtual conference)
• “Indistinguishable from magic? Extractivism, the infrastructural metasystem, and the obfuscation of consequences“; Extraction: Tracing the Veins, 28 June – 10 July 2020, Political Ecology Research Centre, Massey University, New Zealand (virtual conference)
• “Acting your age: design fiction, Nordic LARP and the embodiment of critical utopia-as-method against the Capitalocene”; The Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces, 5-7 December 2019, American Studies Centre, University of Warsaw, Poland
• “Jumping the shark: lessons from media fandoms regarding the coherence of climate imaginaries”; Scenarios and the Politics of the Future at the Climate-Security Nexus, 14-15 November 2019, Climate, Climatic Change and Society cluster (CLICCS), University of Hamburg
• “Climaginaries: putting the critical utopia to work”; Constructing the Future symposium, 30 October 2019, University of Huddersfield, UK
• “FOSSIL / The Museum of Carbon Ruins (an ongoing experiment in the anticipation of decarbonisation)” (a panel/performance/intervention), Anticipation 2019, 9-11 October, Oslo, Norway (w/ Stripple J, Nikoleris A, Versteeg W, MacDonald G)
• “Metasystemics: towards an ontological theory of concrete infrastructure”; RGS-IGB Conference 2019, 27-30 August 2019, London, UK
• “Toward the instrumentalisation of science fiction as a sandbox for social science”; Worlding SF, 6-8 December 2018, Graz, Austria (w/ Stripple, J)
• “Ways of telling tomorrows:(science) fictions, social practices and the future(s) of infrastructure”; DEMAND Centre Conference 2016, Lancaster, UK
• “Prototyping for (and with) publics: a role for (social) science fiction as policy sandbox”; Interpretive Policy Analysis 2015, Lille, France,
• “The self-effacement of Cyborgaia: (re)narrating the illegible morphogenesis of metasystemic infrastructure”; Critical Geographies of Urban Infrastructure, UGRG/Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, 6-7/11/2014
• “The rhetorics of futurity: scenarios, design fiction, prototypes, and other evaporated modalities of science fiction”, LonCon3 (World Science Fiction Convention – academic track), 14-18/8/2014
• “Worlds that tell stories, stories that tell worlds: diegesis and mimesis in science fiction and technoscience”, Science in Public 2013, Nottingham, 22-23/7/2013 (w/ Machell J, Boxall J B)
• “Thunder & Consolation: New Model Army as an ephemeral anarchist utopia”; New Genre Army (a conference on the work of Adam Roberts), Uni. Of Lincoln, 5/4/2013
• “The future’s four quarters: strategic thinking with science fiction”, British Academy of Management Strategic Visions workshop, Euston, London, 6/2/2013