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The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF (2023)
Journal Article

If the Anthropocene is the unconscious of the art, literature, and media of our time, then sf films that are not overtly about climate change will nonetheless express Anthropocenic concerns. In Marjorie Prime (2017), an intense inward focus on the do... Read More about The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF.

Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk (2023)
Journal Article

We live in perilous times. Atmospheric CO2 levels continue to rise, and with them global temperatures. Business-as-usual immiserates and impoverishes us all, depleting soil and water, melting glaciers and ice caps, acidifying oceans, deforesting, des... Read More about Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk.

Cli-fi cinema (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter outlines the relationship between science fiction (sf) and climate fiction, both literary and cinematic, and urges a broader understanding of what it means to tell stories about anthropogenic climate destabilization. It considers a wide... Read More about Cli-fi cinema.

The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (2021)
Book

The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene – the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth – is to be found b... Read More about The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture.

Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs (2019)
Journal Article

© Liverpool University Press. This article is concerned with questions of history, memory and meaning, and with the construction of Afrofuturism as both an archive and a living tradition. It will begin by outlining the origins of the term, and consid... Read More about Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs.

From world sf (via, if we must, World Sf) to world-sf: An introduction (2017)
Journal Article

This article situates the recent turn to sf from outside the America-British tradition within broader developments in American Studies, Comparative Literature and World Literature. Building on the work of WReC, it argues that the next stage for sf st... Read More about From world sf (via, if we must, World Sf) to world-sf: An introduction.

Afrocyberpunk cinema: The postcolony finds its own use for things (2017)
Book Chapter

Noting the effective exclusion of Africa from cyberpunk visions of the future, this essay considers several films from Africa, directed by Sylvestre Amoussou, Nadia El Fani, Neill Blomkamp and Jean-Pierre Bekolo, which draw upon and develop cyberpunk... Read More about Afrocyberpunk cinema: The postcolony finds its own use for things.

Review: ‘African science fiction: On Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry’s “African SF” Special Issue’ (2017)
Journal Article

Review

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.

Review essay: ‘Max Sexton and Malcolm Cook, Adapting Science Fiction to TV: Small Screen, Expanded Universe, Steven Gil, Science Wars through the Stargate: Explorations of Science and Society in Stargate SG-1 and Douglas and Shea T. Brode, eds, Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek: The Original Cast Adventures’ (2017)
Journal Article

Review essay

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.

Between the sleep and the dream of reason: Dystopian science fiction cinema (2017)
Book Chapter

A critical overview of dystopian sf film.

Review: ‘David S. Roh, Betsy Huang and Greta A. Niu, eds, Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media’ (2017)
Journal Article

Book review

Review: ‘Brian Willems, Shooting the Moon’ (2017)
Journal Article

Book review

Paying freedom dues: Marxism, black radicalism, and blaxploitation sf (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter traces the relationship between Marxism and black radical theory and practice in America, noting the frequent presence of sf imagery at the intersection. It then outlines the development of blaxploitation and establishes a hitherto unrem... Read More about Paying freedom dues: Marxism, black radicalism, and blaxploitation sf.

Introduction to the 1930 sonorised German cut of Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (2015)
Other

An introduction to the 1930 sonorised German cut of Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin

Video nasties (2015)
Other

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

Book review: If colonialism was the apocalypse, what happens next? On Nerine Dorman, ed., 'Terra Incognita: New Short Speculative Stories from Africa' and Dilman Dila, 'A Killing in the Sun’ (2015)
Journal Article

Review article on contemporary African sf.

The coy cult text: The Man Who Wasn’t There as noir SF (2015)
Book Chapter

Situates the Coen brothers' film in relation to the intersections of film noir and science fiction, uncovering its latent science-fictionality.

Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick (2015)
Book Chapter

This essay proposes a slipstream cinema along the lines of slipstream fiction proposed by Bruce Sterling - and suggests that it is where we might find the cinematic legacy of Philip K Dick, rather than in the typically disappointing adaptations of hi... Read More about Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick.