Hugh Charles O’connell
Biographic Data
| ID | 94980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugh Charles O’connell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugh Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | O’connell |
| SIGNATURE | O’CONNELL H C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Disruption as preemption, preemption as enclosure: Silicon Valley as financial science fiction
The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, after which the US became a global military and economic leader, this book explores the origins of American utopianism and provides a trenchant critique from the point of view of those left out of the hegemonic ideal. Centring the voices of those oppressed by or omitted from the consumerist American Dream, this book celebrates alternative ways of thinking…
Tade Thompson, Wormwood Trilogy (2016–2019) / Africanfuturism’s Salvage Utopianism
Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction by Sherryl Vint
Reviewed by: Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction by Sherryl Vint Hugh C. O'Connell On Humanist Handmaidens and Posthumanist Possibilities. Sherryl Vint. Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction. Cambridge UP, Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture, 2021. ix + 271 pp. $39.99 hc, $32 ebk. With Biopolitical Futures, Sherryl Vint turns to contemporary sf to interrogate bio…
Can We Imagine a World Without Funds or Banks?” Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako as African-Utopian Speculative Fiction
This article reconsiders Abderrahmane Sissako's 2006 film Bamako as a formal example of sf predicated upon an African-utopian impulse that intervenes in the political closure of capitalist realism and the ontology of debt perpetuated by structural adjustment programs. Due to the radically unlikely events of the film's narrative, in which international financial institutions can be put on trial by ordinary citizens, this article argues that Bamako…
Introduction: Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction
The Novums of Fiscalmancy: Speculative Finance and Speculative Fiction in Ian McDonald'sThe Dervish House
Research Article| March 01 2019 The Novums of Fiscalmancy: Speculative Finance and Speculative Fiction in Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House Hugh C. O’Connell Hugh C. O’Connell University of Massachusetts Boston Hugh C. O’Connell is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His current research examines the relationship between speculative fiction and speculative finance. Recent essays on British and postcolonial …
We are change: The Novum as Event in Nnedi Okorafor'sLagoon
Nnedi Okorafor is a member of a growing vanguard of global SF/F authors who challenge the hegemony of SF as a purely Western genre. This decentering of SF foremost demands a critical engagement with its dominant, operative tropes. In this light, Lagoon subverts the stock colonial ideology long associated with the first contact alien invasion narrative. Drawing on Afrofuturist criticism, this essay argues that Lagoon utilizes the figure of the ali…
The British Science Fiction Boom: Tracking the Currents of the Future between Postimperialism, Postnationalism, and Globalization: Editorial Introduction
The Boom's Near Future: Postnational Ill-Fantasy, or Literature Under the Sign of Crisis
(Re)Turning Money into Rebellion: Reification and Utopianism in Early Punk Production
A weak utopianism of postcolonial nationalist Bildung: Re-reading Ayi Kwei Armah'sThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Most criticism of Ayi Kwei Armah's 1968 novel The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born has concentrated on the pessimistic aspects of the text, highlighting the failures of postcolonial nationalist movements, and ranking Armah's work "among the bleakest and most disenabling texts to be produced during the first decade of independence in Africa" (Lazarus, "(Re)turn to the People" in The World of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, ed. Charles Cantalupo [Trenton, NJ: Af…
We are change: The Novum as Event in Nnedi Okorafor'sLagoon
Nnedi Okorafor is a member of a growing vanguard of global SF/F authors who challenge the hegemony of SF as a purely Western genre. This decentering of SF foremost demands a critical engagement with its dominant, operative tropes. In this light, Lagoon subverts the stock colonial ideology long associated with the first contact alien invasion narrative. Drawing on Afrofuturist criticism, this essay argues that Lagoon utilizes the figure of the ali…
A weak utopianism of postcolonial nationalist Bildung: Re-reading Ayi Kwei Armah'sThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Most criticism of Ayi Kwei Armah's 1968 novel The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born has concentrated on the pessimistic aspects of the text, highlighting the failures of postcolonial nationalist movements, and ranking Armah's work "among the bleakest and most disenabling texts to be produced during the first decade of independence in Africa" (Lazarus, "(Re)turn to the People" in The World of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, ed. Charles Cantalupo [Trenton, NJ: Af…
Introduction: Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction
The Boom's Near Future: Postnational Ill-Fantasy, or Literature Under the Sign of Crisis
(Re)Turning Money into Rebellion: Reification and Utopianism in Early Punk Production
A weak utopianism of postcolonial nationalist Bildung: Re-reading Ayi Kwei Armah'sThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Most criticism of Ayi Kwei Armah's 1968 novel The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born has concentrated on the pessimistic aspects of the text, highlighting the failures of postcolonial nationalist movements, and ranking Armah's work "among the bleakest and most disenabling texts to be produced during the first decade of independence in Africa" (Lazarus, "(Re)turn to the People" in The World of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, ed. Charles Cantalupo [Trenton, NJ: Af…
The British Science Fiction Boom: Tracking the Currents of the Future between Postimperialism, Postnationalism, and Globalization: Editorial Introduction
The Boom's Near Future: Postnational Ill-Fantasy, or Literature Under the Sign of Crisis
We are change: The Novum as Event in Nnedi Okorafor'sLagoon
Nnedi Okorafor is a member of a growing vanguard of global SF/F authors who challenge the hegemony of SF as a purely Western genre. This decentering of SF foremost demands a critical engagement with its dominant, operative tropes. In this light, Lagoon subverts the stock colonial ideology long associated with the first contact alien invasion narrative. Drawing on Afrofuturist criticism, this essay argues that Lagoon utilizes the figure of the ali…
Can We Imagine a World Without Funds or Banks?” Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako as African-Utopian Speculative Fiction
This article reconsiders Abderrahmane Sissako's 2006 film Bamako as a formal example of sf predicated upon an African-utopian impulse that intervenes in the political closure of capitalist realism and the ontology of debt perpetuated by structural adjustment programs. Due to the radically unlikely events of the film's narrative, in which international financial institutions can be put on trial by ordinary citizens, this article argues that Bamako…
Introduction: Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction
The Novums of Fiscalmancy: Speculative Finance and Speculative Fiction in Ian McDonald'sThe Dervish House
Research Article| March 01 2019 The Novums of Fiscalmancy: Speculative Finance and Speculative Fiction in Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House Hugh C. O’Connell Hugh C. O’Connell University of Massachusetts Boston Hugh C. O’Connell is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His current research examines the relationship between speculative fiction and speculative finance. Recent essays on British and postcolonial …
Tade Thompson, Wormwood Trilogy (2016–2019) / Africanfuturism’s Salvage Utopianism
Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction by Sherryl Vint
Reviewed by: Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction by Sherryl Vint Hugh C. O'Connell On Humanist Handmaidens and Posthumanist Possibilities. Sherryl Vint. Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction. Cambridge UP, Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture, 2021. ix + 271 pp. $39.99 hc, $32 ebk. With Biopolitical Futures, Sherryl Vint turns to contemporary sf to interrogate bio…
The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, after which the US became a global military and economic leader, this book explores the origins of American utopianism and provides a trenchant critique from the point of view of those left out of the hegemonic ideal. Centring the voices of those oppressed by or omitted from the consumerist American Dream, this book celebrates alternative ways of thinking…
Disruption as preemption, preemption as enclosure: Silicon Valley as financial science fiction
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