A scholar whose work on spatial thinking, cultural movement, and the politics of place maps directly onto the cultural formation analysis at the core of Interstice's methodology.
Christian Beck is a scholar of British literature, cultural theory, and the literature of place and space. His research sits at the intersection of spatial thinking, cultural movement, and political geography — tracing how literature imagines, contests, and reshapes the spaces in which human life is formed.
He is the author of Spatial Resistance (Lexington Books, 2019) and the editor of Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), with a forthcoming volume from Palgrave in 2026. His scholarly trajectory runs through the Deleuzian tradition — thinking with movement, multiplicity, and the production of space — and his co-edited special issue with François-Xavier Gleyzon on Deleuze in the Journal for Cultural Research (2016) is one of the roots of Interstice's intellectual formation.
At Interstice, Christian brings the depth of a scholar for whom space is never neutral — whose work on how places are formed, navigated, and contested maps directly onto the kind of cultural formation analysis the practice conducts. His presence on the advisory board anchors Interstice in a tradition of spatial and political thinking that takes seriously the question of where, and for whom, communication happens.
"A truly remarkable journey through time, space, and alternate spaces."— Mietek Boduszynski, Pomona College, on Spatial Resistance
How contemporary spaces — physical, digital, aerial — are organized, delimited, and contested. His work traces the ways that fiction, digital practice, and everyday spatial life can open ground for alternative politics.
Movement — across borders, generations, disciplines, and systems. His edited volume on mobility and resistance brings together scholars working on displacement, colonial legacies, and the spatial dimensions of social justice.
The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari runs through his work — nomadic thinking, multiplicity, the production of space. His co-edited special issue on Deleuze in the Journal for Cultural Research (2016), with François-Xavier Gleyzon, is foundational to the intellectual lineage Interstice draws from.
His forthcoming volume with Palgrave Macmillan (2026) takes up the question of what literature says by not saying — silence, withholding, and the politics of speech and non-speech in literary and political discourse.
Christian's work does not treat space as backdrop. It treats space as what is produced, delimited, and contested — the ground on which political and cultural life actually happens. His monographs move from medieval literature through contemporary digital practice to drone warfare, tracing how the organization of space shapes what is possible within it.
That attention to space as formation — not as neutral terrain but as the active condition of cultural life — is precisely the kind of thinking Interstice's methodology depends on. A brand, an institution, a program, a public communication: each occupies cultural space, and each carries the politics of the space it occupies, whether it notices or not.
Christian advises through Interstice — for retained advisory, scholarly collaboration, and work where spatial thinking meets cultural formation. To begin a conversation, reach the practice directly.
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