https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy/status/1323972170784100352 Habent sua fata libelli - books have their destiny, even if it's just twitter. Thanks to COVID-19, I've been self-isolating for the last ten days or so - happily, my symptoms haven’t been too serious beyond some fatigue, headaches and a mild cough. So, I’ve been trying to fill the time by reading more, … Continue reading Building A Library
Observe the conduct of these people closelyFind it estranging even if not very strange Hard to explain even if it is the customHard to understand even if it is the rule Observe the smallest action, seeming simple, With mistrust...Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusionOrdered disorder, planned caprice,And dehumanised humanity, lest … Continue reading Back To Normal
It’s easy enough to talk about the political nature of horror. At this point, the challenge is ignoring the political semiotics of horror, especially in film, thanks to a whole host of work that has emerged in the past decade or so. A more complicated problem, and maybe a more interesting one, is working out the direct … Continue reading Towards A Gothic Marxism III: First Sketches
As Sylvia Federici points out in her landmark work. Caliban And The Witch one of the features of the emergence of capitalism was the production of a new kind of subject. The growing mercantile bourgeoisie required labour power to work for them and thus, society and the idea of the subject had to be reshaped. … Continue reading Towards A Gothic Marxism Part II: Monsters For Socialism
We live in an age of monsters. Such a statement is hardly controversial anymore – from every aspect of culture monsters peer at us, we consume them, we profess our fear, yet the market is saturated with vampires, ghouls, demons, and ghosts. We loathe the monsters, we hide from them. but we love them too. … Continue reading Towards A Gothic Marxism I: On Monsters
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