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Dulltopia (2017)
Journal Article

This essay questions Fredric Jameson's and Slavoj Zizek's recent claims that contemporary dystopias are just plain boring. It argues that if they are right, then we must dive deeper into boredom to locate dystopian critique of catastrophic neoliberal... Read More about Dulltopia.

Afrofuturism in the new wave era (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides a critical overview of the development of afrofuturism and black sf in the 1960s and 1970s across a range of media: mainstream fiction, popular music, film, comics, prose sf.

Video nasties (2015)
Other

Member of panel discussion before UK premiere of Joe D’Amato’s uncut Anthropophagus at The Cube

The futures market: American utopias (2015)
Book Chapter

Critical-historical overview of American utopian texts, from The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations to the current post-genre tumult.

Introduction - SF Now (2014)
Journal Article

Collection of 14 essays (including Graeme MacDonald's Pioneer Award-winning 'Improbability Drives: The Energy of SF'), 5 interview (with Junot Diaz, Steve Fuller, Kij Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Nnedi Okorafor) and 2 reviews, developed from the SF... Read More about Introduction - SF Now.

SF Now (Paradoxa 26) (2014)
Book

Special issue of annual journal also published as a book, co-edited by Mark Bould and Rhys Williams, collecting an array of articles, interviews and reviews on the intersections of contemporary sf and contemporary critical theory.

Exploring afrofuturism: The last angel of history (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Panel discussion of afrofuturism with Ashley Clarke, Anthony Joseph and Zoe Whitely at BFI’s Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder, BFI Southbank, 30 November 2014

What we owe to La Jetée (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Public lecture at BFI’s Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder/Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, The Watershed, Bristol, 11 November 2014