This page collects essays (some academic, some not so much), rants, interventions, and reviews which are not (too directly) related to science fiction literature (but which, perhaps unsurprisingly, often end up bending in that direction regardless).
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- Review – Speculative Epistemologies: An Eccentric Account of SF from the 1960s to the Present by John Rieder [SFRA Review 53(2), 2023]
- Dimensions of Experience (an essay towards a narratology of futures) [FoAM Anarchive, 2022]
- Hip Deep in the Thick Present (a mosaic essay) [FoAM Anarchive 2022]
- Review – Invoking Hope by Phillip E Wegner [Extrapolation 63(2), 2022]
- Review – Green Utopias: Environmental Hope Before and After Nature by Lisa Garforth [Vector online]
- Review – An Ecotopian Lexicon by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy (eds.) [Extrapolation 62 (2), 2021]
- Review – Imagining Urban Futures by Carl Abbot [Planning Theory & Practice, 2018]
- Review – The Proactionary Imperative by Steve Fuller and Veronika Lipinska [Journal of Knowledge Futures, 2017]
- Review – Fuel: a Speculative Dictionary by Karen Pinkus [New Scientist, December 2016]
- Review – The Town Moor, a sound art installation by Chris Watson [New Scientist, June 2016]
- Review – Syzygy, an exhibition by Katie Paterson [New Scientist, May 2016]
- Essay – Dream States: 500 years of Utopia [NESTA Long+Short, March 2016]
- Interview – Human Augmentation & Transhumanism (with Lydia Nichols) [Changeist/Medium, December 2015]
- Essay – Rational Renationalisation: a capitalist case for infrastructural Corbynomics [NESTA Long+Short, November 2015]
- Essay – Who wants to live forever? Transhumanism and the privileged white male [NESTA Long+Short, June 2015]
- Essay – Infrastructure Cyborgs, Part 1; Infrastructure Cyborgs, Part 2 [FutureEverything, July 2015]
- Review – Sonic Pattern & Textility of Code, live generative music by various artists, Access Space, Sheffield [Now Then Magazine, July 2015]
- Essay – The Good Life is a fiction [Medium, November 2013]
- Review/rant – Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas and The Transhumanist Reader [ARCfinity, September(?) 2013]
- Talk – An Introduction to Infrastructure Fiction [video, script+slides; Improving Reality, Brighton, September 2013]
- Comment – The artist as engineer: we need to talk about infrastructure [Guardian, September 2013]
- Essay – An Introduction to Infrastructure Fiction [Superflux.in, July 2013]