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Issue 9.3 – Special Issue "Futurity in Crisis" Previous Issues

Lay Down And Rot: Incels and Lost Futures

In this essay, we examine an alternative contemporary narrative of foreclosed futures that is shared by members of the Incel (involuntary celibate) community. Incel is one node in the Manosphere, a loosely affiliated online network of groups who share concerns about men and masculinity. Deeply fatalistic, Incel consists of a community of largely young men who share a belief that all but the most attractive men have no chance of future happiness or romantic love, due to the skewing of “dating markets” in favour of women (Price 247).

Issue 7.3 - Special Issue "The Global Contemporary and the Ecological" Previous Issues

Infrastructural Futures in Chinese Science Fiction

Andy Hageman July 1, 2019 No Comments China Chinese Sci-fi Chinese science fiction future futures Infastructural criticism literature science fiction speculative fiction

Andy Hageman explores the topic of infrastructure in Chinese Science Fiction.

Issue 7.1 - Alluvium Relaunch Previous Issues

Alluvium Editorial 7.1: Relaunch

Zoe Bulaitis March 4, 2019 No Comments Alluvium BACLS c21 Caroline Wintersgill Chloe Ashbridge conference contemporary contemporary culture contemporary fiction definitions editorial future global relaunch twenty-first-century literature What Happens Now writing Zoe Bulaitis

We are delighted to be presenting you with the first new issue of Alluvium, which is relaunching as a graduate-run journal affiliated to the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS).