Ali Riza Taskale

Ali Riza Taskale is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. He previously served as Associate Professor (2021–2022) and Assistant Professor (2017–2021) at Near East University, and as Assistant Professor (2014–2017) at Hacettepe University.

• PhD in Geography (University of Sheffield, 2013)
• MA in Sociology (Lancaster University, 2008)
• MSc in Sociology (Hacettepe University, 2006)

His research bridges speculative fiction and speculative finance, analyzing Silicon Valley’s ideological influence on contemporary capitalism and alternative futures. Key themes include reactionary futurism, militarized tech oligarchies, and speculative urbanism.

His 2025 publications explore intersections of financialized capitalism with fictional worldbuilding, corporate technopolitics in Silicon Valley, and critical urban analyses through speculative narratives like New York 2140. Keywords span Political Economy, Urban Studies, and Speculative Fiction.

Scientific awards include the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. He contributes to editorial work at Distinktion journal and leads the SF-SF project examining speculative methodologies in socio-political critique.