Sean Seeger

Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) at The University of Edinburgh Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) on jobs.ac.uk!

We're hiring! Come and join a friendly department in the Scottish capital. A two year part-time contract in Creative Writing (Prose): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY206/t...

My book came out on Friday!

Hybrid Novels has chapters on Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith & David Foster Wallace, before turning to Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole & Tao Lin.

c20/c21 scholars/students… order in to your libraries!

www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Novel...

It’s here!

My book is out a week today!

Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Hybrid-Novel...

Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hybr...

Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/hybrid-...

PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University Discover a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University!

A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

The team have done a fantastic job with our new Space Gallery, the objects look gorgeous - these photos almost don't do them justice! - and some great stories woven throughout. We are now the only museum in the world where you can see an Apollo command module alongside a Soyuz module.🚀

Episode 15: Daniel Jenkin-Smith, Bureaucracy, Utopia, Dystopia

We all love bureaucracy, right? Here it is for your enjoyment... bureaucratic utopias and dystopias with Daniel Jenkin Smith. Please rate, subscribe, recommend, and all that other bureaucratic nonsense!
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To mark the 50th anniversary of The Shining, editors Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale solicit chapter proposals for a new collection of scholarly essays.

Direct 250-word proposals and inquiries to Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu and Anthony.Magistrale@uvm.edu by Dec. 1st, 2025.

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Most read in Extrapolation 🔭
'Daniel Bell, Social Forecasting, and Science Fiction' by @sean-seeger.bsky.social & Daniel Davison-Vecchione
Read it #OpenAccess via the LUP website: bit.ly/EXTR-Bell
@amb42.bsky.social @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social

A quick reminder: if you read something you love, don't forget to write to the author to thank them for it, and tell them why you loved it.

This is an absolutely superb cover, Matthew! Can't wait to receive my copy of this.

Cover art is in! Wastelands and Wonderlands coming in April. Massive thanks to the creative team at SUNY for another brilliant cover! This has some amazing contribs and I can't wait for you to read their work!

This sounds like a fascinating book! I'll be checking it out as soon as it's available.

IT ACTUALLY EXISTS!

My first book - Gothic Precarity - now actually exists! It will be published on Monday 15th September and is available to pre-order now: www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...

In the meantime, please forgive me while I gaze at these…

#Gothc #gothicprecarity #precarity #neoliberalism

Episode 14: Athira Unni, Postcolonial Dystopias and Social Reproduction Theory

Here it is, episode 14. An interview with scholar Athira Unni about, among other things, postcolonial dystopias (particularly from South Asia and the Caribbean) and social reproduction theory. Please consider subscribing, reviewing, and rating the pod. open.spotify.com/episode/3cbZ...

The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy This book brings the emerging field of petrocultures and energy humanities discourse into conversation with the field of animal studies.

My book The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multi species Encounters in Extraction Zones is coming out this year 25th July: link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Having children dress as characters for book week teaches them to embrace naive mimesis. They should be encouraged to personify formal categories like omniscient naration, free indirect discourse, etc

Published this week: ANIMALITY AND HORROR CINEMA: CREATURELY FEAR ON FILM.

Another fantastic title from Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature.

Brilliantly edited from Peter Sands, Mo O'Neill and
@samjhind.bsky.social

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

UK to evacuate nine Gaza students with university scholarships Move follows months of pressure from MPs, academics and campaigners, with dozens of other students still stranded

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Our newest book "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" by Matthew Benjamin Cole looks at how stories of our world gone wrong haunt political thought. You can start reading this #OpenAccess book at doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

Apocalypse, maybe: how end-of-the world movies have changed The Life of Chuck is the latest in a suite of recent movies that view the end of the world from an oddly aloof perspective. Armageddon isn’t what it used to be.

Have you noticed how films about the end of the world are more thoughtful than they used to be? Me on a new genre: the "apocalypse, maybe" movie

We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Who’s with me for a campaign to stop politicians wearing hi viz jackets and hard hats when talking about the economy and instead being filmed playing Total War: Warhammer

description of "relational uncertainty" seminar: what is the role of aesthetics and the work of art in uncertain social relations?

hey modernists (and not really modernists) if you're going to MSA in Boston, consider signing up to the seminar Brian and I are running on ✨relational uncertainty✨. It's about why people are messes and why that's productive for art and theorizing @glavey.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

a belated #modwrite announcement: my first academic book should be out with the Edinburgh UP in October. On its cover is Alexandra Hughes's stunning art. More on what’s between the covers soon, but for now, enjoy Alex’s stunning work, and see more here: alexandrahughes.co.uk

I'm excited to announce that Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right won the Hugo Award for Best Related Work! This is such an honor, and I appreciate everyone who helped me along the way.