Things I have written
React! React! React!
or Three Stories of Autoimmunity or Another Reason Not to Smoke Working in response to the work of Dr Megan Macleod and her team at the School of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow, I made React! React! React! or Three Stories of Autoimmunity or Another Reason Not to Smoke, a risograph publication that imagines…
Read MoreThe Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus
I gave the paper Who’s nou? How one story used television to summon a non-human fiction-self device for the author at this conference organised by London Arts-Based Research Centre at Oxford University, 24-26 May 2025. Here’s the blurb: This conference aims to convene screenwriters, performance storytellers, digital storytellers, authors, educators, practitioners, journalists, scholars, researchers, psychologists,…
Read MoreClass Matters
Shown as part of Class Matters (2-21 May 2024, Annex Gallery, Glasgow School of Art), this is a kind of developmental work, unsure of its place (on a wall) and more concerned with the text that supported it… Huge thanks to Deborah Jackson, James Hutchinson & Elizabeth Hodson. All teenage bedrooms are sites of cultural…
Read MoreHow Many Electric Sheep? Yet Another Adaptation of Blade Runner (v2024)
Presented at Transitions: 2024 Annual Conference of Science Fiction Research Association in Tartu, Estonia, 10 May 2024, this paper examined a double-sided flick-book titled A 35mm 208-ish Frame Version of Blade Runner (Topping, 2018), considering the work and the paper itself as adaptations and novel narrative threads which enrich and complicate the transitional cultural object…
Read MoreShit Hair (2024)
This hand-made publication (edition of 250) was given away at the Queer Materialities Live! symposium, 14 March 2024 (GSA). The work is the first output of a new interdisciplinary project concerned with abject and celebratory aspects of hair and other materials which are commonly used as hair substitutes. Shit Hair seeks out lost and forgotten…
Read MoreGothic Nature Journal: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic
The Man Who Fell to Millom (2018) is part of Gothic Nature Journal Issue III. Download it here. Huge thanks to Editors-in-Chief Dr Elizabeth Parker, Dr Michelle Poland and Dr Harriet Stilley for the inclusion. Read all Gothic Nature editions at https://gothicnaturejournal.com/
Read MoreNeMLA 53rd Annual Convention 2022
Delighted to be given the opportunity to present remotely at the Northeast Modern Language Association 53rd Annual Convention this year – my second contribution to this friendly, interdisciplinary affair. I was discussing the flick book A 35mm 208-ish Frame Version of Blade Runner (2018) in the context of literary and film adaptation. Thank you Bill…
Read MoreCommunication Measures to Bridge 4.543 Billion Years – GeoWeek at the University of Cumbria Institute of Arts
Last week I met with many heartily missed friends at UoCIoA to deliver this brief introduction to The Man Who Fell to Millom… In 2018 I was commissioned by Irene Rogan, Director of the Moving Mountains Festival (in Millom, Cumbria) to make a film about the operational Ghyll Scaur Quarry. However, after visiting the quarry…
Read MoreThe Peter & nou Handbook: A Field Guide to an SF Practice (So Far), 2021
While this text is too chunky (it’s the quality really) to be accessible from this site, feel free to take a look at it on the GSA online research depositary thing, RADAR. I think you can just jump straight in here. Some context: This text examines The Peter & nou Project, a developing body of…
Read MoreA Thing What I Wrote (2020)
Delivered to the University of Cumbria Research Office, Lancaster in a suitcase at 3.30pm on Thursday 27th February 2020. Thankfully then Professor Robert Williams and family took me out for a pint. Now I have no idea what to do with myself… The Peter & nou Handbook: A Field Guide to a Speculative Practice (So…
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