30/07/2025
Charlie Blake, 1956–2025
It is with shock and sadness that we must report the death of Charlie Blake (b. 18 August 1956, he died between July 13–19). Charlie was a driving force throughout Angelaki’s 32-year history and was part of the Oxford Deleuze discussion group out of which the Journal emerged. When the Editorial Board was first formed, Charlie was one of the five Executive Editors, the directing group of the Journal. He published a number of special issues with the Journal, beginning with Intellectuals and Global Culture (coedited with Linnie Blake, 1997), and a collection with the Angelaki Humanities book series, Evil Spirits: Nihilism and the Fate of Modernity (coedited with Gary Banham, Manchester UP, 2000). His last special issue was The Sea: A Literary–Philosophical Immersion (coedited with Helen Palmer), published at the beginning of this year. From 2010–2023, Charlie was Angelaki’s Theme Commissioning Editor, a role which his relentless energy and appetite for new ideas and travel made him exceptionally well-fitted for. He was a constant source of enthusiasm and encouragement throughout the Journal’s history and his death is a major loss.
A free-to-view obituary will be published in a forthcoming General Issue and it is planned that a page at the Journal’s website will be devoted to it.
Gerard Greenway (Managing Editor, Theme Commissioning Editor)
Pelagia Goulimari (General Editor)
Salah El Moncef (General Issue Editor)
