“Babe, wake up. New Marxist vampire novel is on the scene.”

This is maybe my favorite horror novel of the year so far.

Look, I'll keep saying this for as long as it takes - go buy @boneysoups.bsky.social's THE RED SACREMENT 👻

Blood and History: @thelitcritguy.bsky.social reviews Sara Hinkley’s THE RED SACRAMENT (@titanbooks.bsky.social)

Minion Literature in the Americas

Thousands more must watch! youtu.be/Dxve-8skKUM?...

Kentucky Route Zero

I have thoughts on this

New episode!! What’s Next for Sci-Fi and its Empires? W/ RevLeftRadio Joined by our great friend Breht, we talk about the elaborate dynamics of empires, their history, and their potential futures! Enjoy! theleftpage.libsyn.com/whats-next-f...

There is no other person than Jon that could make me (re)familiarize myself with Kierkegaard Although his work remains unconvincing to me. Admittedly this is rarely my goal reading older philosophy anyway, I think it's a fascinating lense to view media through And here Jon shows us how:

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The Prairieland 8 are political prisoners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I do not wish to align! I do not wish to circle back! I do not want to manage stakeholders! I wish to be free!

all i want to do is write books!! instead I am forced to learn what microsoft teams is!

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NEW WRITING: "The ethical ideal of the Imperium of Man is always-already fractured, which explains why the emotional arc of so many of these novels is the move from aesthetic certainty to ethical anxiety." www.patreon.com/TheLitCritGu...

The 40k posting WILL continue until moral improves. 💪

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back at it.

The people in hell want ice water

DAN ABNETT COME ON THE POD 🙏

Finally less than forty of these novels to go. 😭😭😭

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

Wonderful stuff.

Absolutely spot on writing here indeed:

people tell me that one hotel in LA isn't actually that confusing, but all the same Fred would have loved the Backrooms

NEW WRITING, for @currentaffairs.bsky.social on the Backrooms movie, Fredric Jameson and the nightmare maze of contemporary capitalism that we can't find our way out of www.currentaffairs.org/news/backroo...

Thank you to comrades in Spain for telling me that Capitalism A Horror Story was part of Lucía Lijtmaer's culture show on national radio 😱 I love that book - a ghost that keeps appearing in the most unexpected of locations 👻

My newest piece for Current Affairs is out and I think this description of cognitive mapping helps illustrate why I think the film is so interesting. 🤔

I really really really want to see this movie. I remember when the original post went viral, and the picture gave me a vague sense of dread.

A horror movie that powerfully depicts the idea of alienation? "The world is stripped of illusion, stripped of narrative, stripped of any place to stand, and reduced to (...) a non-place, in which human beings are essentially anonymous, interchangeable, and alone." 👏👏👏

this is great; i’m definitely watching backrooms.

I walked out of the film into a sprawling parking lot, confronted by big box store architecture occluding the horizon

"As he put it in his famous book Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: “‘Cognitive mapping’ was nothing but a code word for ‘class consciousness.’” In other words, you can’t participate in a class struggle if you can’t even see the dimensions of the battlefield."

not to make this about me but you can't imagine how fun and enlightening it is to watch these get put together. Jon's back in CA.

NEW WRITING, for @currentaffairs.bsky.social on the Backrooms movie, Fredric Jameson and the nightmare maze of contemporary capitalism that we can't find our way out of www.currentaffairs.org/news/backroo...

organically did the vince mcmahon meme here

I entered the Docs (THE DANIEL DOCS) to chat about the red sacrament, karl marx, vampires + the kinsey scale, and what an immortal would wear to a The Drift party:

So Jon does a thread like this every year, but the transition in this one from Serious Book; Serious Book; Serious Book; Specific Arc Warhammer Novel 1; Specifc Arc Warhammer Novel 2 etc makes this year my favourite. And he’s gonna do all 62 of them. Magnificent.

This book, and his previous work in the series, have made Lorgar and Angron two of the most emotionally complex and interesting characters in the series so far.

As we see the end of the Starmer years, I am reflecting on my favourite things about him. Personally, it was when he told a newspaper that he didn’t dream or have any internal thoughts

This is interesting though not quite as effective as I was hoping. Found myself thinking, at various points, about Portal, Control, Severance, Fredric Jameson and Kafka.

Now watching

hello would you like to come to the launch of my debut novel

166 - Radical Infrastructure feat. Britt Paris We have @hellobrittparis.bsky.social joining us to talk about the Internet as infrastructure and why librarians should care. We talk about communalism, Muskism, and all your other favorite isms. We also have better transcripts again!

Oh you like Warhammer 40,000? Go on then, name all forty thousand hammers.

Utopia is real, and you can find it in Shakespeare & Co in Paris 🎉🎉

you know what, nobody tells you how good it feels to be read closely and well by someone you admire. they don't warn you about this at all. you just gotta log on one day and figure it out

oh good, you say, new lit crit guy!!! then you look a little closer and realize….YOU’RE the lit the guy is critting

"perhaps the most striking thing about this novel is the degree to which it reintroduces a blood-red historical materialism into the all too often dried and desiccated body of that most familiar of monsters: the beautiful vampire predator."