Ben Carver

Ben Carver researches and writes about all and any kinds of speculative fiction: utopian, science-fictional, counterfactual, invasion, etc. He teaches writing at the European University Institute in Florence.

By Ben Carver

  • essay
    27.10.2022

    Alien Frequencies

    Cover til The Sounds of Earth Record. ©  Wikimedia Commons
    The mixtape has always been a format with which to swagger and seduce, meant to project both front and vulnerability. How, though, might we interpret a sampler from another star system; what might its effect on us be? A journey with Ziggy Stardust, Yuri Gagarin, afrofuturists and intellectuals from Mars.
    By Ben Carver