Dr Niall Gallen is an Early Career Researcher with an interest in responses to technology and its relationship to forms of social change across literature, visual art and within subcultures. His AHRC funded PhD investigated the cultural politics of forms of advocacy for accelerated change in the works of The Independent Group, Eduardo Paolozzi, J.G. Ballard, and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit.
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Space Dreams
Samantha Harvey’s novel muses on distorted time and a ‘swarm of satellites’ circling the earth
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Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami’s narrator searches the night sky for descendants of Sputnik, 1999
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Satellite nervous systems
“Among the peoples of the world strange new vortices of power will appear unexpectedly”
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