Ali Rıza Taşkale is an external lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University. Previously, he was a Marie Curie–Sklodowska Fellow in the same department. His research has been published in leading academic journals and cultural platforms, including Science as Culture, Urban Studies, Critical Studies on Security, Utopian Studies, Distinktion, Los Angeles Review of Books, Thesis Eleven, Theory, Culture & Society, and the Journal for Cultural Research. He is the author of Post-Politics in Context (Routledge, 2016) and currently serves on the editorial board of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, overseeing special issues and the forum exchange section. His current research investigates two intersecting areas: the structural and logical relationship between speculative fiction and speculative finance, and the role of science fiction in shaping the imaginaries and ideologies of tech elites. His forthcoming book, Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities in Speculative Literature and Film, will be published in the Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture series.