{"id":150,"date":"2026-05-28T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/?p=150"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:15:21","slug":"thanks-to-phil-crockett-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/05\/28\/thanks-to-phil-crockett-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to Phil Crockett Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>and to everyone who came along to her brilliant creative writing workshop on speculative fiction and imagining different worlds, and to her fantastic sociology seminar on world-building, fictional imaginaries of transformation, and activist practices on May 27th. It was a great day for interdisciplinary conversations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized wp-duotone-midnight\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/05\/CrockettThomas_Abolition-Science-fiction-e-book_Page_50-722x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151\" style=\"width:368px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/05\/CrockettThomas_Abolition-Science-fiction-e-book_Page_50-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/05\/CrockettThomas_Abolition-Science-fiction-e-book_Page_50-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/05\/CrockettThomas_Abolition-Science-fiction-e-book_Page_50-768x1089.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/05\/CrockettThomas_Abolition-Science-fiction-e-book_Page_50-1083x1536.jpg 1083w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/05\/CrockettThomas_Abolition-Science-fiction-e-book_Page_50-1444x2048.jpg 1444w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/05\/CrockettThomas_Abolition-Science-fiction-e-book_Page_50.jpg 1749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and to everyone who came along to her brilliant creative writing workshop on speculative fiction and imagining different worlds, and to her fantastic sociology seminar on world-building, fictional imaginaries of transformation, and activist practices on May 27th. It was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/05\/28\/thanks-to-phil-crockett-thomas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}