@utopianstudpsu.bsky.social to all Utopianists: the double issue of Utopian Studies—vol.35.2-3—will be out on line in several days!
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Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer
Absolution is the kind of prequel that shouldn’t be read first.
I reviewed Jeff VanderMeer's new novel Absolution for Strange Horizons. I think I captured the literary and ecological spirit of his Southern Reach fiction, so enjoy!
strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
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From the last paragraph of my review: "I wouldn’t say Absolution has a message—it eats messages and shits out horrors—but it does have something to say. ... Absolution offers up a truth against extraction, against conquest: (1/2)
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Moved over to bluesky ... Hello all!
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Doctor of dystopian fiction, post-truth, and "endotexts" working behind the scenes in HE.
Co-host of @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social.
Former teacher - GCSE revision materials available at https://youtube.com/@dystopiajunkie
A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
PhD candidate | lit | ethics | utopia | environment
he/they
https://up-pt.academia.edu/ManuelSOUSAOLIVEIRA
Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'. Real writer. No algorithms.
Grassroots utopias, social movements & pedagogy. Mutual aid & anti-authoritarian organising in/against/beyond capitalist crises.
Book nerd interested in utopia/dystopia, SF & modernism. Senior Lecturer in English Lit. Currently thinking about deserts (& usually also dessert) ✡️🌈He/him
Senior Lecturer English and American Lit @ Winchester Uni: Lit & Film, utopia/dystopia, apocalypse, terror. Co-host Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast. D&D. Dog pics. Views own. He/Him
Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M, Kingsville. Author of (P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship (Edinburgh UP, 2022). Honorable Mention for 2021 SSAWW Book Edition Award for Helen Brent, MD.
Lecturer in Liberal Arts @ Bristol
Walt Whitman // C19 socialism // utopias // interdisciplinarity // equity in HE
Book on Whitman and British socialism http://goo.gl/fGYLXY
Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Author. (repped by @erikhane.bsky.social)
horror, utopia, the gothic nightmare of capitalism
CAPITALISM A HORROR STORY out now, working on a new book about HOUSES
Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.
Author, speaker, all-purpose movie guy, media studies prof @ Utrecht University. Forthcoming: books on the Fast & Furious franchise and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Pre-order: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Lecturer in English: C19 US & Australian Lit, racial transformation, white supremacy.
Melbourne. she/her
‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now!
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal-whiteness-in-early-us-fiction.html
PhD researcher at the University of Dundee. Thesis topic is female authored utopian literature (Gynotopia) 1666-present. Interested in anything gender and sexuality studies in SF or utopian literature! Always open to talk anything SF!
Asst prof @northumbriauni.bsky.social contemporary culture | Essays New Humanist, The Week, Review31...| 📖 The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel @bloomsburylit.bsky.social; Sleep and Its Meanings @mitpress.bsky.social Spring '26 | dilettadecristofaro.com
https://alirizataskale.com
External Lecturer at Roskilde University
@distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue editor
Recent pub: Reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21624887.2025.2474781
Multilingual Marxist metalhead studying ideology and utopia, PhDing and lecturing @ptts_muenster. Yaprak sarma is superior to your favorite food.
I read, I write, I teach, I learn
English Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/
BLOG The Joys of Teaching Literature
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/blog/
I co-edit Hélice, https://www.revistahelice.com
phd @ university of salzburg // thinking about black and indigenous speculations, ecology, and the unsettled cosmos. he/him.
