Dr James Burton

James Burton is Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Cultural History.  His research interests include cultural theory, science fiction, posthumanism, process philosophy, ecology and theories of fiction.  He is the author of 'The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip.K.Dick' and associate editor, alongside Erich Hörl, of 'General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm', (2017) a collection of theoretical essays on the contemporary imbrication of different kinds of ecology.

Teaching

Arts and Cultural Theory (BA); Global Cultural Politics (BA); Cultural Studies and Capitalism (MA)

Areas of Supervision

Proposals are particularly welcome for theoretically-orientated critical research projects in the following and related areas:

• Posthumanism
• Ecology
• Science Fiction and culture
• Literature and Philosophy
• Concepts and cultural forms of fiction 

Publications and research outputs

Book Section

• Manimism and the Primary Error
• The Animal That Laughs at Itself: False False Alarms about the End of 'Man'
• Astronoetic Voyaging: Speculation, Media and Futurity
• Thinking with Whitehead about Existential Risk
• Metafiction and general ecology: Making worlds with worlds
• Devastation
• From Exegesis to Ecology

Article

• Manimism: Worrying about the Relationship between Rationality and Animism
• Towards a Parasitic Ethics
• On Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth

Edited Book

• General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm

Book

• The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick