Alex Mazey won The Roy Fisher Prize from Keele University in 2018 and was the recipient of a Creative Future Writers’ Award the following year. He is a contributing researcher for the international academic journal Baudrillard Now and author of both Living in Disneyland and Sad Boy Aesthetics. His debut poetry collection, Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition, is available from the award-winning Bad Betty Press. His writing weaves incisive wit with fluid philosophical enquiry, offering a piercing, uniquely thought-provoking lens through which to explore the ubiquity of absurdities inherent to postmodern consumerist culture.

Main interests: aesthetics, hyperrealism, postmodernism, semiotics, Baudrillard

“Rather than attempt to recover lost meaning, today’s semiotics emboldens the conditions it helped to create, embracing the performative and ironic nature of signs with a sense of cynical amusement.” - Sardonicism in Semiotics