I was delighted to be featured, alongside my Birkbeck colleague Prof. Roger Luckhurst,  in a recent radio programme on BBC Radio 3. Titled “The Robots Are Us” and presented by Ken Hollings, the programme looked at the legacy of Karel Čapek’s play Rossum’s Universal...

After the recent keynote I delivered for the London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC)’s annual conference, on the topic of automated labour and the question of free time in science fiction, I was thrilled to be invited by BBC radio producer Phil Tinline to contribute to a radio...

I’ve been working on a new side project on automation and utopian visions of futurity – from Marxist revolutionary theory to theories of post- and anti-work. When the London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC) invited me to deliver one of the keynote talks for this...