The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

Dan Hassler-Forest is an author and public speaker affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His research is focused on the ways in which popular media reflect changing social relations in late capitalism. His most recent books are Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label and Janelle Monáe’s “Dirty Computer.”

Dan Hassler-Forest

Janelle Monáe Offers Stories of Hope for Our Dystopian Times

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Bong Joon-ho: Love in the Time of Capitalism

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Disney’s Endgame: Corporate Stockholm Syndrome in the Age of the Mega-Franchise

“The Last Jedi”: Saving Star Wars from Itself

The Politics of the Planet of the Apes

Ellie Mae O’Hagan is an editor at openDemocracy and a freelance journalist writing mainly for the Guardian. She has also written for The New York Times, the Independent, the Times, Vice, Foreign Policy, and others. She tweets <a href="https://twitter.com/MissEllieMae">@MissEllieMae</a>.

Ellie Mae O’Hagan

Mark Bould teaches film and literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He co-edits the Studies in Global Science Fiction monograph series, and his latest book is The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (Verso, 2021).

Mark Bould

Roger Luckhurst is the Geoffrey Tillotson Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. His recent books include a cultural history of the corridor (Reaktion, 2019) and Gothic: An Illustrated History (Thames &amp; Hudson/Princeton UP, 2021). His global history of the graveyard will appear in 2024.

Roger Luckhurst

Carl Freedman was born in 1951. He is the William A. Read Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University and the author of many books, articles, and reviews that cover a wide range of topics in modern thought and culture, most notably Marxist critical theory, science fiction, film, and United States electoral politics. His best-known book is Critical Theory and Science Fiction (2000); his most recent is Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville (2015). He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Carl Freedman

Jeremy Gilbert is professor of Cultural and Political Theory. He was written widely on politics, music, and contemporary culture. He has an active blog here: http://www.jeremygilbert.org/#blog

Jeremy Gilbert

In Memoriam: Mark Fisher

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Politicizing Star Wars: Anti-Fascism vs. Nostalgia in “Rogue One”