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)
Delighted to deliver this paper at Transitions – the 2024 SFRA conference at the University of Taru, Estonia (7-11 May 2024). Thank you to all who supported this work, including the distribution of flick books… The 2024 annual conference of the Science Fiction Research Association seeks to discuss all kinds of transitions as the thematic,…
Read MoreShit Hair (2024)
Made for Queer Materialities Live! at GSA, March 2024, this wee packet of dubious origin that you picked up off the lecture theatre floor, was filled with one of two kinds of something… Just say no.
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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