Justin L. Mann

Justin L. Mann, assistant professor of English who studies Black speculative fiction and security, discusses how Black imaginaries reveal the politics of securitization. He traces ties between SF, Reagan-era policy, and mass incarceration. Short, sharp takes cover Octavia Butler, climate and pandemic fictions, racial tectonics, and abolitionist alternatives to technocratic safety.

Justin L. Mann, assistant professor of English at Northwestern and author of Breaking the World, studies Black speculative fiction and critical security. He discusses how SF shaped Reagan-era securitization, contrasts state futurism with Black insecurity, reads Butler and Jemisin for world-breaking practices, and connects biosecurity, militarization, and climate narratives to racialized vulnerability.