Alfie Bown is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at King's College London. His books include Post-Comedy (Polity, 2024), Dream Lovers (Pluto, 2022) and The Playstation Dreamworld (Polity, 2017). He has also written for The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Philosophical Salon and other places. He is editor of Everyday Analysis, the psychoanalytic pamphlet house.