Christopher Webb is a writer and critic based in London. His work on contemporary fiction, cinema, and internet culture has appeared in various publications, including Aesthetica, British Journal of Photography, Literary Review, and Times Literary Supplement.

He holds a PhD from UCL, where his research was fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and in 2020 he was awarded a Foundation Grant by the Society of Authors.

He is the author of Useless Activity, a cultural history of British avant-garde fiction from 1960–1975. Through close readings of Alexander Trocchi, B. S. Johnson, and Eva Figes, the book argues that the experimental writing of this period became increasingly anxious about its own “uselessness”, an anxiety that was symptomatic of a time when ideas about the value of artistic labour--and work more generally--were being contested and revised.