As part of Birkbeck’s Arts Week 2017, we organised a panel titled "Will 2017 be 1984" (you can listen to a podcast recording of the panel here) which considered the uncanny relevance of Orwell’s novel…
View More Will 2017 be 1984?Author: Caroline Edwards
Dr Caroline Edwards is Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She is completing a monograph titled Fictions of the Not Yet: Time in the Contemporary British Novel and is co-editor of China Miéville: Critical Essays (Gylphi, 2015), Maggie Gee: Critical Essays (Gylphi: 2015) and A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (Routledge, 2017). Caroline is Founding & Commissioning Editor of Alluvium and a Co-Director of the Open Library of Humanities.
Peak Oil in the Popular Imagination
In the 21st century, we remain beholden to the oil economy. Oil shapes our geopolitics, our economic forecasts, the global transportation of our commodities, and impacts upon the costs of day-to-day living. Since the invention of the internal combustion engine, the petroleum industry has risen to such prominence that we cannot understand modern capitalism outside of its history as petro-capitalism …
View More Peak Oil in the Popular ImaginationEditors’ Introduction: Issue 1.1
Welcome to the launch issue of Alluvium, a new online journal of literary criticism that is dedicated to 21st-century writing as well as 21st-century approaches…
View More Editors’ Introduction: Issue 1.1