Dr James Burton
Staff details
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
Burton, James. 2015. The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781474227667
Edited Book
Hoerl, Erich and Burton, James, eds. 2017. General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-3500-1469-5
Book Section
Burton, James. 2022. The Animal That Laughs at Itself: False False Alarms about the End of 'Man'. In: Christoph F.E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, eds. Errans: Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing. 24 Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, pp. 49-74. ISBN 9783965580350
Burton, James. 2022. Astronoetic Voyaging: Speculation, Media and Futurity. In: Joanna Zylinska, ed. The Future of Media. London: Goldsmiths Press, pp. 333-351. ISBN 9781913380144
Burton, James. 2019. Thinking with Whitehead about Existential Risk. In: Roland Faber; Michael Halewood and Andrew M. Davis, eds. Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield), pp. 115-134. ISBN 9781793612564
Burton, James. 2017. Metafiction and general ecology: Making worlds with worlds. In: Erich Hoerl and James Burton, eds. General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 253-283. ISBN 9781350014695
Fuller, Matthew and Goriunova, Olga. 2017. Devastation. In: Erich Hoerl and James Burton, eds. General Ecology. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 323-344. ISBN 9781350014701
Burton, James. 2015. From Exegesis to Ecology. In: Alexander Dunst and Stefan Schlensag, eds. The World According to Philip K. Dick. Palgrave, pp. 209-227. ISBN 978-1-137-41458-8
Article
Burton, James. 2022. Manimism: Worrying about the Relationship between Rationality and Animism. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics(104/5), pp. 214-237. ISSN 0950-2378
Burton, James and Tam, Daisy. 2016. Towards a Parasitic Ethics. Theory, Culture & Society, 33(4), pp. 103-125. ISSN 0263-2764
Burton, James. 2014. On Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth. Theory, Culture & Society, ISSN 0263-2764
