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Sean Seeger

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Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Essex | C20th & C21st literature; speculative fiction; utopian studies; film studies; queer studies, cultural theory | 🏳️‍🌈

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Sean Seeger @sean-seeger.bsky.social · Jun 30

My latest article has just been published in the journal Utopian Studies. 'Speculative Queerness: Non-Normative Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future' can be accessed here:
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian...

Speculative Queerness: Non-Normative Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future

ABSTRACT. This article explores how David Cronenberg’s outwardly dystopian science fiction film Crimes of the Future (2022) can be interpreted as an implicitly utopian queer text. After surveying some...

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 11d

It’s here!

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George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 13d

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-...

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 22d

🌱 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.

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.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 19d

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.🚀

Science Museum @sciencemuseum.org.uk · 19d

Our new out-of-this-world gallery, Space, is now open!

Celebrating the first space age and the future of space exploration through incredible objects, be one of the first to experience this new gallery.

Entry included with your free museum admission ticket – book now: https://bit.ly/4mIEaP7

Visitors stand in the Science Museum's new Space gallery, observing an Apollo 10 command module, a Soyuz space capsule and a spacesuit. Also prominent are a 3D projection of the Moon and large rocket and satellite components.

Two visitors look at a large Saturn rocket thruster and a section of the BepiColombo spacecraft in the Science Museum's Space gallery.

Two visitors to the Science Museum's Space gallery sit on a bench, observing and pointing at a 3D projection of the Earth that appears suspended in the air. Another visitor observes from a standing position. A background wall shows the surface of the Moon.

A visitor to the new Space gallery at the Science Museum stands looking at Helen Sharman's spacesuit, white with blue and red trim and with a Union Flag patch visible on its left arm. In the background are the Soyuz space capsule, another visitor examining it, and its draping parachute.

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Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social · 21d

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!
open.spotify.com/episode/3mD0...

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

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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock @cypheractive.bsky.social · 21d

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 [email protected] and [email protected] by Dec. 1st, 2025.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 22d

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

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 26d

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.

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Sean Seeger @sean-seeger.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 26d

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!

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Sean Seeger @sean-seeger.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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Dr Tim Rideout @drtimrideout.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

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

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Josie Taylor @josietaylor.bsky.social · May 16

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...

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.

link.springer.com

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

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Dominic O'Key @dominicokey.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · Aug 21

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...

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

www.theguardian.com

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University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social · Aug 21

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...

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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · Aug 18

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.

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Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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.

www.flicks.com.au

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · Aug 19

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/

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 18

In Britain video games generate more revenue (£4.3bn) than the film (excluding streaming) and music industries combined (£3.4bn).
economist.com/britain/2025...

Britain is a global gaming superpower

Can it remain one?

economist.com

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