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...

I was fortunate enough to be able to travel to the US in Autumn 2011 to attend a fantastic conference, "Critical Refusals: The 4th Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society," held at the University of Pennsylvania in October 2011. Whilst this was the biennial...