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Niall GallenOct 29, 20206 min readGenre Speciation and Science Fiction: Realer than Realism?In this post, PhD Candidate Niall Gallen uses J.G. Ballard’s 1971 essay ‘Fictions of Every Kind’ to scrutinise the status of 20th Century...
Jemma SaundersAug 1, 20204 min readPhD motivation from a tweet about Birmingham. Yes, a tweet. Yes, Birmingham.On 15th July, the official BBC Archive Twitter account posted an old news clip about the 1992 Olympic bid. The video was headlined as...
Jayde MartinMay 26, 20207 min readScience-fiction is More Than Just Aliens and Mutants The point of this post, however, is to complicate this argument even further to unravel the science-fiction genre conspiracy
Rhys James JenkinsMay 25, 20204 min readAn Eldritch Angle on Popular CultureEverything I’ve done up until this point has, in some way, linked to the study of popular culture
Daniel BuckinghamMay 23, 20202 min readPopular Culture - An Act of DefianceI chose to embark upon a love affair with P.G. Wodehouse, who remains one of the central figures of the doctoral work I’m conducting today.