The economics magazine STIR hosted a panel discussion on “Economic Science Fictions” to celebrate the launch of its Autumn 2018 issue on “Co-operating out of Crisis.” I was pleased to be ask to contribute with a short talk on “The Economics of Nowhere”...

In July 2018, I was delighted to be invited to deliver one of the keynote addresses at After Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference, the fifth annual conference organised by Fantastika Journal. The theme of the 2018 conference was what comes ‘after’, with papers...

I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled “Mapping Imaginary Topographies and Times: Literary Utopias from the Renaissance to the Present.” Since I’m currently writing a...

The Los Angeles Review of Books recently published a review article of China Miéville: Critical Essays, the collection I co-edited for Gylphi published in 2015. Gylphi also published Carl Freedman's excellent Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville, which was also...

As part of the New Scientist Live 2017 festival of ideas, I was thrilled to be asked to interview Margaret Atwood. The event, titled "Science, fiction and the future", took place on the Main Stage – VIP Area at the ExCeL Centre in London on Sunday 1st October...