In the Chinks of the Wyndham Machine
(2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mark Bould's Outputs (204)
Class and horror (2025)
Book Chapter
A critical overview of the interrelationships between class and horror (fiction and film), organised around Erik Olin Wright’s discussion of the three kinds of sociological model of social and economic class: stratification/individual attributes; Web... Read More about Class and horror.
Mark Bould in Conversation with María Abizanda Cardona (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Interview for the Spanish Association for American Studies/Sociedad española para el estudio de los Estados Unidos de América Young Scholars Reading Group
Interview with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi introducing UK premier of Lone Star restoration (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2024)
Book
The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf stu... Read More about The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction.
Science fiction debate: Why have we stopped imagining the future? An interview with Mark Bould, Amy Cutler and David M. Higgins by Andres Reimann (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Roundtable discussion on the imaginative closure of the future in mainstream discourse and dystopian fiction, and the potentials of science fiction to jump start that imagination
Introduction to Georgiy Daneliya’s Kin-dza-dza! (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
The Enshittification of the Internet: Cory Doctorow in Conversation with Mark Bould (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
On the Anthropocene Unconscious (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Public reading from and interview about The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture
Climate fiction in short (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
It’s about time: Cinema and science fiction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Since their inception in the late 19th century, both cinema and science fiction have repeatedly explored questions of time and temporality in terms of form as well as narrative and theme.
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.
Space/race: Recovering John M. Faucette (2019)
Book Chapter
This essay analyses the four short novels of pioneering (but utterly forgotten) African American sf writer, John M. Faucette.
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.