Our short 2025 in review episode out now on our Soundcloud channel and other podcast platforms, featuring brief excerpts from our discussions with @zackpolanski.bsky.social, the Foundational Economy Collective, @julietjfall.bsky.social and others on.soundcloud.com/4TE7ZqvzJaR9...

A short piece in @theconversation.com on Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams and the adaptation currently on Netflix theconversation.com/train-dreams...

An interesting selection on this list of “books that got you through your twenties” for @theconversation.com There was only ever one choice for me: Joe Sacco’s Palestine. What would yours be? theconversation.com/twenty-exper...

If anybody's watching #TrainDreams on #Netflix and is interested a postcolonial/infrastructural reading of the novel, this essay I wrote a few years ago is available in full here drive.google.com/file/d/1Kydm...

What would you say if you had 5 minutes to talk to Matt Damon about the “global water crisis”? Our conversation with Filippo Menga about Thirst published this year by @versobooks.bsky.social is now available on our Soundcloud channel and most podcast platforms. on.soundcloud.com/cp29Zt2aTJKK...

Download the Introduction to Graphic Refuge by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, now Open Access on our website @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...

Great to see the intro to Graphic Refuge now available open access from @wlupress.bsky.social !

It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative. For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure. m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...

This was such an inspiring discussion highlighting the value of an infrastructural approach to borders but also of alternative methods that bring wide audiences with them through the research process

Looking forward to this conversation with Filippo (a coauthor of mine on comics and climate change from a few years ago) next week about his new book Thirst: The Quest to Solve the Global Water Crisis, out now with @versobooks.bsky.social. Join us!

Looking forward to presenting along @drdomdavies.bsky.social and @mediocre.bsky.social at the 22nd Annual Historical Materialism conference in our "Comics Against Capitalism" panel on Saturday, 8th 10:00-11:45 GMT. conference.historicalmaterialism.org #ComicsStudies

I just listened to an excellent presentation on comics & infrastructure by Dr Giada Peterle, part of online talks organised by @drdomdavies.bsky.social within @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social. Such a creative, inspiring & generous scholar! (Her drawings on my book from gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...)

If you like infrastructure and you like art, and you like thinking about infrastructure through the embodied visual arts, join us for this event!

Excited for this hybrid launch of Graphic Refuge with my co-author @crifkind.bsky.social and colleague @ernestopriego. Join us on 19 Nov for a discussion of the way comics intervene in our anti-migrant visual culture with relations of refuge. And some beautiful pictures of some beautiful comics!

It was great fun to record this conversation exploring transformations in the railway imaginary, from Dickens’s Dombey & Son to EM Forster’s Howard’s End and beyond

The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live! In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

And our third and final online event of the term assembles a diverse panel of academics, practitioners, and activists to reflect on what gentrification means today and how we can remake cities without displacing residents. Sign up below. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Looking forward to participating in MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event with authors @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social and fellow respondent Mihaela Precup www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... (19 November 2025 5pm) #ComicsStudies

Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

TTiN’s first event of the new term. Join us online for this lunchtime discussion about infrastructure, art, and autoethnography.

Thanks @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for inviting me and @drdomdavies.bsky.social to talk about our new co-authored book exploring how comics can document & disrupt dominant images of war & forced displacement @wlupress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/graphic-refuge

Also excited to have been accepted to participate in the 22nd Historical Materialism conference, in a panel with colleagues @drdomdavies.bsky.social & @mediocre.bsky.social [6-9 November 2025] www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

"The only social space left after the evisceration of society and the undermining of the individual is the family" The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues @drdomdavies.bsky.social www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

My latest for @redpeppermag.bsky.social argues that public opposition to inheritance tax must be understood in the context of Britain’s crumbling infrastructure. The more people lose faith in the state, the more they feel the need to look out for their families. www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...

It’s a privilege to have an essay in this month’s bumper issue of @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the cultural politics of decline in Britain. Out this week and available online to subscribers tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...

Can Refugee Comics Effect Political Change? Discussing Comics Journalism and “Refugeeness” - Ep. 3 of the podcast I did with co-author @drdomdavies.bsky.social is up! www.choice360.org/podcasts/epi...

The first of our 4 part conversation about Graphic Refuge is now out with The Authority File on all good podcast platforms!

TTiN is now on Apple Podcasts! Check out our talks and conversations from 2024-25 and give us a follow and a rating! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

1 year ago today Britain went to the polls & I spoke with Moya for Novara FM about the ways infrastructure had become embroiled in a cultural politics that often passed unnoticed. We unpacked these in our conversation and I think it still it bears listening to. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Comics & graphic novels can empower refugees to tell their stories on their own terms – a glimpse into our book, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, what it covers & why it matters now. With @crifkind.bsky.social for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/comics-and-g...

An article in The Conversation be me and @drdomdavies.bsky.social based on our new book, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics @wlupress.bsky.social @uwinnipeg.bsky.social theconversation.com/comics-and-g...

Tomorrow!

Two senior @ukri.org figures this week have suggested unis could reduce how much research they do “Concentrating on unique and high contributions & concentrating on less research, has the potential to bring the amount of activity into balance with research funding,” Steven Hill told #ARMA25 (1/2)

We’re midway through our “Power Grids” exhibition at @britishacademy.bsky.social where we’re discussing the experience of failing infrastructure, how green energy can empower communities, and the rewards of using comics co-creation as a research method.

Join us online for TTiN's final lunchtime seminar of the academic year Book Launch with Alex Tickell – City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure Citizenship 12-1pm, Monday 23 June 2025 Register here for Zoom link www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Join us at the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase next week, 20 & 21 June, for our exhibit on how comics & graphic narratives can help us to reimagine our energy infrastructure – free to attend, many other exhibits & activities, book your space www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...

Took some time today to read the position papers for this workshop- all thought-provoking stuff. Also looking forward to the zine making session as closure! Great work from @drdomdavies.bsky.social and team putting this together.

This week not a bad time to pick up a copy of The Broken Promise of Infrastructure – if you want to think about the cultural politics of infrastructure, what it means for Britain's regions, and the contradictions behind these repeated promises lwbooks.co.uk/product/the-...

Workshop in two weeks: "Knowing Infrastructures in and beyond the neoilberal university" – Friday 13 June, City St George's, London, hosted by @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social Full programme & registration here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Copies of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Comics co-authored with @drdomdavies.bsky.social will also be available at a discount thx to @wlupress.bsky.social during @comicsscholars.ca www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/G/Grap...

We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university. This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading. Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university – Friday 13 June How do we reorganise our knowledge infrastructures in the service of collective liberation? Where is the future of radical knowledge production? Programme below, register here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

off-roading academia? archive.is/EGZhn

You are invited to a one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity. Abstracts (200 words) + bios (100 words) due: 10 July 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to rethink comics and AI with a multidisciplinary community! #CFP: comicsandai.org #ComicsStudies

It's finally in print! Got my author copies of Graphic Refuge: Visuality & Mobility in Refugee Comics today (Pepper loves the packaging. Pub date June 10 but can pre-order now www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/G/Grap... @wlupress.bsky.social @drdomdavies.bsky.social @cssc

The open call is out for abstracts for @tninstitute.bsky.social annual State of Power report - deadline 2 June www.tni.org/en/article/c...

Reform’s devastating electoral success in places like County Durham this week shows that British politics is approaching a tipping point – will Labour respond with watered-down jingoism, or rediscover its soul? Tribune editor Alex Niven on the local elections. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/refo...

I’m in the middle of marking 60 papers about the way visual culture reproduces hatred of migrants. These students are not middle class or white. There is a constituency that doesn’t buy the reform narrative. But what is there on the table to encourage them to vote at the moment?

Last day to respond to CFP Knowing Infrastructures in and beyond the neoliberal university

“We will tackle illegal migration... I say no to putting people in hotels. Tents are good enough for France. They should be good enough… here in Britain. I take my hat off to our great leader, Nigel… I know one day he will make a magnificent prime minister.“ ~ Andrea Jenkins