- Dissertation Title:
- My dissertation, "The Ends of the World-System: Population Panics and Resource Culture from Chesney to London," studies turn of the century British science fiction to more fully comprehend the conditions of the present. I approach the period through its historical situation of imperial decline and through the fossil fuels (coal) at the heart of its transnational economic, social, and political system. I study its science fictional imaginations of the future, mainly constellated around the threat of social collapse occasioned by future war, invasion, or resource scarcity, then emergent in order to elucidate how cultural production mediates the rapid pace of techno-social development through the science fiction form.
I'm interested in questions of energy transition, postcolonialism, imperial culture, and cultural figurations of technological change.
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