"The Horse in Motion" a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge from 1878 Okay, confession time. I've been wasting too much time on social media again, getting lost in the flow, the soporific and anhedonic thrill of swiping. Happily, there are still moments in which you can come across something that jolts you back … Continue reading it is always too late to talk about time
Dulle Grietby Pieter Bruegel the Elder O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as … Continue reading Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Basilisk: Some early thoughts on the Political Theology of AIÂ
Happy Christmas friends and comrades. Taking some inspiration from xenogothic, whose blog and wider intellectual work I’ve deeply admired for years now, I thought it would be interesting to try and wrap up the year and collate all of the writing I’ve managed to publish this year. Much of the year I spent wracked with … Continue reading 2025 Retrospective
Some Notes on 2666 And after it there came so long a train Of people, that I ne’er would have believed That ever Death so many had undone. Over on Twitter, Erik Hane asked why everyone seems to be reading Bolano’s final novel, 2666, and this seemed like a good chance to try and offer … Continue reading 2666 Again
Capitalism A Horror Story will be published in July of this year. Thinking back, I think I can spot the very first seeds of the book in my mind as far back as around 2015 when, as a lonely and somewhat intellectually insecure Ph.D. student (how little has changed) I stumbled across China Mieville's talk … Continue reading And Next?
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
