Full Chronological Publication List
FORTHCOMING: Rebel Inc., Colonialism Simulator. First Person Scholar [details tbc].
FORTHCOMING: Blame the War, Not the Troops: Good Kill. Journal of War and Culture: Aesthetics of Drone Warfare Special Issue. Edited by Beryl Pong and Sophie Maxwell [details tbc].
FORTHCOMING: The Ticking Bomb Drone Strike: Drone Warfare and Emergency Ethics in Eye in the Sky. In: Drone Warfare and Post-9/11 Cultural Practices. Edited by Muhammad Waqar Azeem. Palgrave [details tbc].
2021
Camp X-Ray and the Task of Critique: Torturability and the Politics of Ethical Recognition in Guantánamo
Journal of Film and Video 73.3, pp. 23-33.
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.3.0023
The Report and the Task of Critique: Torture, Exposure, and the Spectacle of Accountability
Quarterly Review of Film and Video 38.8, pp. tbc.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2021.1963164
Guantanamo Memoir Film Skewers George W. Bush, But Exonerates Barack Obama
Truthout, 15/7/2021
Rise of the Smog God: Ecological Apocalypse in Godzilla Vs. Hedorah
We Are The Mutants, 15/6/2021
Dr Smash's Film Club 06: Circle of Shit: The Human Centipede Series (2009-2015)
Repeater Radio, 16/4/2021
url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/alex-adams-dr-smashs-film-club-06-circle-of-shit/
Dr Smash's Film Club 05: Marvel's Weeping Executioner: The Punisher
Repeater Radio, 2/4/2021
url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/alex-adams-dr-smashs-film-club-05-marvels-weeping-executioner/
The Greatest Showa on Earth: 1962’s King Kong vs. Godzilla
We Are The Mutants, 25/3/2021
url: https://wearethemutants.com/2021/03/25/the-greatest-showa-on-earth-1962s-king-kong-vs-godzilla/
Dr Smash's Film Club 04: Torture Therapy: The Saw Franchise (2004-2021)
Repeater Radio, 19/3/2021
url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/dr-smashs-film-club-2/
Death TV: Drone Warfare in Contemporary Popular Culture
Free Online PDF & Softcover Hard Copy: Drone Wars UK
url: https://dronewars.net/2021/03/10/death-tv-drone-warfare-in-contemporary-popular-culture/
Pop Culture Portrays Aerial Bombardment of Middle East as “Business as Usual”
Truthout, 7/3/2021
url: https://truthout.org/articles/pop-culture-portrays-aerial-bombardment-of-middle-east-as-business-as-usual/
Dr Smash's Film Club 03: Pikachu, Torturer: Police Brutality and Family Entertainment [audio]
Repeater Radio, 5/3/2021
url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/dr-smashs-film-club-1/
Dr Smash's Film Club 02: Death TV: Drone Warfare in Contemporary Popular Culture [audio]
Repeater Radio, 19/2/2021
url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/dr-smashs-film-club/
Dr Smash's Film Club 01: Torture Tourism: The Hostel Series (2005-2011) [audio]
Repeater Radio, 29/1/2021
url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/dr-smashs-film-club-01-hostel/
Interview: The Translator Interviews the Author: Alex Adams on Torture and its Justifications (trans. Iman Marouf)
Takween Creative Writing Platform, 12/1/2021
url: https://takweenkw.com/blog/3049/single
2020
كيف يبرر التعذيب؟ في عمق سيناريو القنبلة الموقوتة (How to Justify Torture: Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario, arabic translation.) Trans. Iman Marouf. Kuwait: Takween Publishing.
"It Ain't No Man": The Colonial Iconography of Predator
We Are The Mutants, 3/12/2020
url: https://wearethemutants.com/2020/12/03/it-aint-no-man-the-colonial-iconography-of-predator/
Drone Strikes in Popular Culture: Eye in the Sky
Drone Wars Blog, 24/6/2020
url: https://dronewars.net/2020/06/24/drone-strikes-in-popular-culture-eye-in-the-sky/
A Direct Line Through Time, and Some Hope: Eminent Monsters
Repeater Books Blog, 1/6/2020
url: https://repeaterbooks.com/a-direct-line-through-time-and-some-hope-eminent-monsters-alex-adams
2019
Confronting Britain’s Legacy of Torture
Truthdig, 25/11/2019
url: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/britain-land-of-tea-and-torture/
Interview: Making Torture American Again, With Help From Hollywood
Truthdig, 23/9/2019
url: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/making-torture-american-again-with-help-from-hollywood/
Interview: Torture and the Bomb that Never Existed [audio]
This Is Hell!, 7/9/2019
url: https://thisishell.com/interviews/1072-alex-adams
How Pop Culture Tries to Justify Torture
Truthout, 7/9/2019
url: https://truthout.org/articles/how-pop-culture-tries-to-justify-torture/
Interview: Getting Away With Torture is Easy if You're Captain America
The Outline, 5/9/2019
url: https://theoutline.com/post/7876/how-to-justify-torture-alex-adams-interview
How to Justify Torture: Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario
Repeater Books: Paperback and eBook
Blackstone Publishing: Audiobook
Political Torture in Popular Culture: The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate
Routledge: Paperback Reissue of 1st edition (2016)
2018
Graner’s Laugh: The Conceptual Architecture of a Guantánamo Rape Joke
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44.1, pp. 107-130.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/698279
Knowing the Double Agent: Islam, Uncertainty, and the Fragility of the Surveillant Gaze in Homeland
In: Surveillance, Race, Culture. Edited by Antonia Mackay and Susan Flynn. Palgrave. pp. 125-143.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77938-6_7
2017
“The Sweet Tang of Rape”: Torture, Survival, and Masculinity in Ian Fleming’s Bond Novels
Feminist Theory 18.2, pp. 137-158.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700117700043
Review Essay: Robert Young, Empire, Colony, Postcolony
Interventions 19.5, pp. 738-740.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2017.1281399
Review Essay: Neil Jackson, Shaun Kimber, Johnny Walker, and Thomas Joseph Watson (eds.), Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media
Visual Studies 32.1, pp. 92-93.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2016.1274182
2016
Political Torture in Popular Culture: The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate
Routledge: Hardback 1st edition, eBook
Guantánamo Boy and the Task of Critique
The Lion and the Unicorn 40.3, pp. 245-261.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2016.0023
2015
Review Essay: Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and Peter Hulme (eds.), Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance
Interventions 17.2, pp. 296-298.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2015.1000682
2014
The Infinitely Complex Ropeskipping Existence
In: Double Dutch: A Game. Edited by Isabel Lima. Arts Council UK. pp. 21-29.
Terrorism as Sexual Envy: Adversarial Masculinities in Two Fictions of Ticking Bomb Torture
In: Terrorist Transgressions: Gender and the Visual Culture of the Terrorist. Edited by Sue Malvern and Gabriel Koureas. IB Tauris. pp. 181-201.
“What Can Be Infinitely Destroyed Is What Can Infinitely Survive”: Literary and Filmic Representations of Political Torture from Algiers to Guantánamo
PhD thesis
url: https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/jspui/handle/10443/2388
2012
Review Essay: Jane Hiddleston, Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality: The Anxiety of Theory
Interventions 14.2, pp. 324-326.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2012.694700