Alessio Kolioulis - Publications

LATEST

Kolioulis, A. Seijas, A. and Acuto, M. "Integrating night studies into climate science", Nature Climate Change (2024) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02117-9
The Urban Crisis at Night (Urban Polycrisis Series), Urban Political Podcast 95, 19 August 2025. Link.

FORTHCOMING

Kolioulis, A., Reia, J. and Straw, W. (eds.). Routledge Handbook of the Night-time Economy. Forthcoming 2026.

IN PREPARATION

Book Manuscript in preparation, working Title: Red Moon. Re-thinking the Night-Time Economy through the Nocturnal Commons.
Journal Article. “Building the Nocturnal Commons. Infrastructures of Labour in Development”

REPORTS

"Defining and discussing the notion of commoning". GOLD VI Working Paper Series #14 (April 2022). Barcelona: United Cities and Local Governments. Link.
Kolioulis, A. (et al.) "Working Nights: municipal strategies for nocturnal workers". London: Autonomy, December 2021. Link.
Kolioulis, A. (et al.) "Voices of Creatives. Scenarios for the New Normal in the Creative Industries of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East after Covid-19". Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), 2021. Link.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

“More day in the night? The gentrification of London’s night-time through clubbing”. Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana 14, 2(1) (2019): 209-220. https://doi.org/10.13128/bsgi.v1i2.536
“Of Drones and Angels. GAIKA’s Sonic Images of Urban Resistance.” Mediapolis: Journal of Cities and Culture 2, no. 3 (2017). Open Access.
“Borderlands: Dub Techno’s Hauntological Politics of Acoustic Ecology.” Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 7, no. 2 (2015): 64-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2015.07.02.04

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review: "Managing Cities at Night. A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy". Urban Studies. Link.
Review of Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London (Repeater Books 2018) by Alberto Duman Anna Minton Dan Hancox Malcolm James. London School of Economics Review of Books Blog (2019). Open Access.
Review of General Theory of the Precariat (Institute of Network Cultures 2017) by Alex Foti. London School of Economics Review of Books Blog (2018). Open Access.

EDITED BOOKS

Kolioulis, A., (engagée Collective eds.). Villes Radicales. Du droit à la ville à la démocratie radicale. Paris, Eterotopia France, 2019. ISBN: 979-10-93250-32-8.

PhD

Kolioulis, A. "Écologie de la musique techno : subjectivité, machines et territoires urbains : pour une critique de l’esthétique techno à partir de Detroit et Londres". Paris 8, December 2018. Link (French).

CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS

"Le message, c’est la techno. Réflexions sur les courts-circuits de l’industrie des musiques électroniques" In Vincent Chanson (dir.), Techno & co. Chroniques de la culture dance électronique, Paris, Amsterdam, 2025.
"La città oltre il postfordismo. Geografie urbane e nuove economie di piattaforma" in U. Fadini e A. Zanini (eds.). Postfordismo e oltre. Firenze, Clinamen, 2023. ISBN: 9788884103307.
“The Future of Dancefloors: Building More Flexible, Open and Innovative Clubbing Experiences”. In M. Fichman, R. Foster, L. Leichsenring, M. Milan, D. Raiselis, A. Seijas, and J. Yuan. Global Night-Time Recovery Plan. VibeLab, 2020. Open Access.
“Techno is the Message. Reflections on the Short Circuits of the Electronic Music Industry”. In A. Szepanski. Ultrablack of Music. Frankfurt: Mille Plateaux, 2020. ISBN: 978-3-944233-91-8.
(Postface) “Un Besoin d'Espace. Notes sur l’urbanité ingouvernable de Colin Ward” In C. Ward. L’enfant dans la ville. Paris, Eterotopia France, 2020. ISBN: 979-10-93250-41-0.
(English Translation) “A Need for More Room. Notes on Colin Ward’s Ungovernable Urbanism”. Anarchist Studies Blog, 12 May 2020. Open Access.
Kolioulis, A. and Süß, R. S. (eds.). “Introduction”, in (eds.) Villes Radicales. Du droit à la ville à la démocratie radicale. Paris, Eterotopia France, 2019. ISBN: 979-10-93250-32-8.
Kolioulis, A. and Rietveld, H. “Detroit: Techno City” In Lashua, B., Spracklen, K., Wagg, S. (eds.) Sounds and the City Volume 2. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94081-6_3
(Postface) Gandy, M., Kolioulis, A., and Villani, T. “Qu’est-ce que l’écologie queer?” In Gandy, M. Ecologie Queer. Paris, Eterotopia France, 2015. ISBN: 979-10-93250-07-6.

SELECTED SEMINARS & CONFERENCES

(Invited) Keynote Speaker. New South Wales Government's NEON Conference 2025, Sydney 30 October.
"Night Shift: The hidden workforce powering 24-hour cities" (with Anna Edwards, Michele Acuto and Alison Young) - RGS Conference, 26-29 August 2025.
(Invited) "Improving the environmental impact of the night-time economy" – EU URBACT Cities After Dark Seminar Series, 05 August 2025.
(Invited) "Climate Change after Dark", C40 Lunch Seminar Series, London, 3 July 2024.
(Invited) "On the entrepreneurial ecosystem of night time businesses", EU NightSchool, FUSE Brussels, Belgium, 8 June 2024.
(Invited) "A City for and by Night Workers" Public Lecture, Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne, 3 April 2024, Link.
(Invited) "Climate Change after Dark Webinar", 24HourNation podcast, 4 March 2024, Video.
(Invited) 6th STADT NACH ACHT Conference. Panel "Pioneering an EU Standard for Nightlife Research", 16-18 November 2023, Berlin. Link.
(Invited) 2nd Scientific Conference on 'Transforming the City. Public Space, Environment, Inequalities & Democracy", Panel "Mapping spatial and social inequality of our cities". 20-22 October 2023, Athens. Link.
"Advancing Dialogue on Night Work". UCL-Centre for Cities Melbourne. UCL East, 21-22 June 2023.
"Night Work and Night Spaces. Delivering the City and the Politics of Space" Historical Materialism 19th annual Conference, SOAS. 13 November 2022.
(Invited). "Sweating on the dance floor. On climate change and the creative industries." Rencontres universitaires - La musique à l’âge de l’Anthropocène. Université de Caen, NDK Festival, 19 October 2022. Link.
Higher Education Research Association (HERA) Conference. "Humanities in Crisis / Crisis in Humanities conference". 8/9 September 2022. Wroclaw, Poland.
"Triple Launch: Building a Sustainable Queer Nightlife in London". UCL, 27 July 2022. Link.
"Building the Nocturnal Commons. Infrastructures of Labour in Development". NITE Third International Conference, Leiden University, 19-20 May 2022. Link.
(Invited). "Night working and night hubs". Mid-Term Conference of the International Night Studies Network. 21 April 2022. Link.
(Invited). "Rising up for the crisis. "Nighttime economy for cities, communities and for the industry". Night Time Economy Summit, NTIA/VibeLab Global Cities After Dark, 7-8 April 2022. Link.
"Insights and Findings: Voices of the Creatives Study". VibeLab, 28 April 2021. Link.
(Invited). “Night-time economies and night-time workers”. Municipal Socialism Introductory Workshop at Labour Party The World Transformed Conference, 03 September 2020.
(Invited). “Democratise the Night: Dance Music as a Right to the City against the Financialisation of Night-Time”. Night Spaces: Migration, Culture and Integration in Europe, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment (UCL), 13 May 2020.
"Eccesso e scarto. Eco-logiche dell’accumulazione." Eco/Logiche Politiche, saperi, corpi e soggettività nel tempo della crisi ambientale, Cox 18, 4 April 2020. Link.
“Good Night, White Night: decolonizing and democratizing popular night economies”. First International Conference on Night Studies, Lisbon 2-4 July 2020.
(Invited). “Dance music as a right to the city against the financialization of night-time”. In the City: A Seminar Series on Urban Life, Art, Culture and Politics. Centre for Cultural Studies Research & the School for Arts and Digital Industries, University of East London, 25 March 2020.
“What are the barriers to radical municipal experiments in the UK?”. Experimental Recipes for a Radical Municipalism. Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London, 28-30 August 2019.
“More day in the night: the gentrification of London’s night-time through clubbing”. City Futures IV Conference organized by EURA and UAA– Dublin, 20-22 June 2019.
“Techno as Urban Resistance: A brief history of the collective Underground Resistance” The Art of Political Contention (Panel 1 - Arts and Contentious Ideas, Ideologies and Identities), London School of Economics (LSE), London, 29 May 2018.

INTERVIEWS & PODCASTS

The Urban Crisis at Night (Urban Polycrisis Series), Urban Political Podcast 95, 19 August 2025. Link.
“#2 Secchiate sui Night Workers.” Secchiate (Substack), July 25, 2024. Link.
Should you fight for your right to party? Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd, 30 January 2023. Link.
Cities After Dark - Into the Night Episode 1. Connected Cities at the University of Melbourne, 2021. Open Access.
What is a good city at night? Re-thinking the role of night-time economies for development. DPU Breakfast 3 November 2021. Link.
"Interview: Alessio Kolioulis on Colin Ward’s The Child in the City and its French translation". Freedom News. 13 May 2020. Link.

Thinking Cities: Debating just development in the Global South. UCL The Bartlett Development Planning Unit Podcast series. Open Access.

BLOGS

“The Impact of COVID-19 on Night-Time Economies, Arts and Culture”. UCL The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, 30 June 2020. Open Access.
Gilbert, J., Kolioulis, A. and Süß, R., S. “Radical democracy and Municipalist Movements”. Open Democracy, 22 September 2018. Open Access.
Kolioulis, A. and Süß, R., S. “Circularity. A new strategic horizon”. Open Democracy, 15 January 2018. Open Access.

Editorial

engagée

engagée is an independent journal at the intersection of politics, philosophy and art. The project gives special importance to current political issues, publishing critical analyses and theoretically informed interventions. Links: Website, Patreon.

"Radical Cities", vol. 6/7 (2018)
"Urban Citizenship", vol. 8 (2019)
"Disobedient Future", vol. 9 (2020)
"Who Cares", vol. 10 (2021)

Eterotopia France

ETEROTOPIA France est un lieu de production, de recherche et de comparaison avec une perspective européenne, tout en portant une attention particulière sur les rapports entre la France et l’Italie. Aussi bien dans ses choix éditoriaux que dans les rencontres qu’il organise, Eterotopia France propose deux principaux axes. Le premier vise à reprendre les classiques de la pensée moderne dans différentes disciplines telles que la philosophie, l’architecture, l’urbanisme et l’art contemporain. Le second, au caractère plus expérimental, cherche à porter à connaissance des recherches et des thèmes innovants, travaux effectués en général par de jeunes auteurs dans ces mêmes domaines.

M. Gandy. ÉCOLOGIE QUEER Nature, Sexualité et Hétérotopie. Paris: Eterotopia France, 2015.
Collectif « engagée ». VILLES RADICALES Du droit à la ville à la démocratie radicale. Paris: Eterotopia France, 2019.
C. Ward. L’ENFANT DANS LA VILLE. Paris: Eterotopia France, 2020.
R. Süß. LA POLITIQUE DE LA PROVOCATION La révolte contre les échecs démocratiques. Paris: Eterotopia, 2021.

In Italiano

ARTICLES & BLOGS

"Game Non-Stop. Note su finanza e società digitale – di Andrea Fumagalli e Alessio Kolioulis". Effimera (2021)
"LiberarSi della Destra. Per un Comunismo Stravagante." Effimera (2020)
"Mark Fisher e il Capitalist Realism." Effimera (2017)
“Approccio alle Istituzioni Eterotopiche.” Millepiani 41, (2018)
“Fantasmagorica. Storia di una serata.” Millepiani Urban 6, (2014)
“La libertà ai tempi del controllo.” Millepiani 40, (2013)
Kolioulis, A. and Guerreschi, L. “Un’armatura Speciale. Un breve studio sul corpo senza organi.” Millepiani 39, (2012)
“I movimenti del plusvalore. Verso un’antropologia economica deleuzeana.” Millepiani 37/38, (2011)
“Pornofinanza. Figure dell’immaginario bioeconomico.” Millepiani 36, (2010)

INTERVIEWS & TRANSLATIONS

"La cura come continuazione della guerra – intervista di Alessio Kolioulis a Cristina Morini". Effimera (2021).
"Socialismo Psichedelico. Acid Communism, Acid Corbynism e Politiche di Sensibilizzazione – di Jeremy Gilbert". Effimera (2018)
“Verso l’Acid Communism. Presa di coscienza e post-capitalismo”. Effimera (2017)
Spine e possibilità della lotta alla corruzione: contributi al dibattito #3 - Interventi di Mariya Ivancheva (Bulgaria) e Otonom (Turchia). Commonware (2014)
Corporate open source – Proprietà intellettuale e lotta sul valore - di CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD. Commonware (2013)
Data Aesthetics. Dalla Crisi Ecologica alla Creazione Artistica - Un'intervista a Paul D. Miller. Millepiani 40, (2013)

BOOK REVIEWS

"Crepe nella città. Una nota su Progetto Minore di Camillo Boano". Tropico del Cancro (2021)
Review of The foreigner (Notting Hills Editions 2011) by Richard Sennett. Millepiani 39, (2012).
Review of L'ordine del discorso economico. Linguaggio della ricchezza e pratiche di governo in Michael Foucault (Ombre Corte 2010) by Adelino Zanini, Millepiani 37/38, (2011).

Cultural Theory & Practice

ARTICLES & BLOGS

“Techno is the Message” In Sczepanski, Achim (ed.). Ultrablack of Music. Frankfurt: Mille Plateaux, 2020.
“Has Techno Decelerated? On Technoculutre, Acceleration and Breaks”. Non.Music.Copyriot, 18 May 2018.
“A Conversation with Mark Dancey” Techno&Philosophy Blog, 16 March 2018.
“Politicizzare il suono. Sul concetto di ritornello in Guattari” In Ghelfi, A. and Nencini R. (eds.) Guattari Reader, Florence, Quaderni di Testalepre, September 2018.
“Il suono della Londra che verrà”. NOT Nero Edizioni, 23 February 2018. https://not.neroeditions.com/gaika-londra
“A sensory overload. Rudy Loewe’s fusion of light and sound – Interview” Techno&Philosophy Blog, 14 October 2017.
Review of “londonunderlondon” by Mark Fisher and Justin Barton Review, engagée, 20 September 2017.
“Is there such a thing as Techno Art?” Panel intervention at the launch of the exhibition Techno and the City, Fiumano Gallery, London, UK, 3 November 2016.
“Le plaisire organisé et le nouvelle esprit sociale.” Intervention at EDESTA Seminar, Institute National de l’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), Paris, France, 14 November 2014.
“Short story of a night out”. Intervention at EDESTA Seminar, Institute National de l’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), Paris, France, 30 November 2013.

CONFERENCES & INVITATIONS

“Has techno decelerated?” Intervention at Rebel Machines / Subversive Bodies. Unlearning Automated Behaviours, MACAO Centre for Arts and Social Research, Milan, 28 April 2018. https://zero.eu/en/eventi/110956-rebel-machines-subversive-bodies-unlearning-automated-behaviors,milano/
Kolioulis, A. and Guerreschi, L. “Oedipus does not exist. Territorial Production by Means of Social Psychologies.” Paper presented at the Deleuze Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013.
“Market ex Machina. On the concept of the invisible hand in Adam Smith.” Paper presented at the Historical Materialism Conference, London, November 2011.

VIDEOS

“What is Techno Art?” - Abdul Qadim Haqq meets Techno&Philosphy collective in Detroit. May 2016.

EXHIBITIONS

(Curator) Techno and the City 2017 – Amsterdam Dance Event Official Programme, organised at LAB111, Amsterdam. Review: http://peoplesbeats.net/techno-and-city-une-exposition-qui-regroupe-les-valeurs-de-la-musique-electronique/
(Curator) Techno and the City 2016 – Fiumano Gallery, 3-10 November 2016.