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Natalie, come on @horrorvanguard.bsky.social 👻👻👻
I'll be working on this month's newsletter piece, discussing my recent foray into digital horror, why I started on this project, and what I'll be working on for the foreseeable future
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Did you know that you could just go and read Goethe's Faust right now?
Faust | Project Gutenberg share.google/UCBleefMMdyU...
WAGNER I would have shared your watches with delight, That so our learned talk might be extended. To-morrow, though, I’ll ask, in Easter leisure, This and the other question, at your pleasure. Most zealously I seek for erudition: Much do I know—but to know all is my ambition. [Exit.
logging on to talk to the people who send me pdfs of academic books
Matt has been a mentor and a friend to half the critics coming up in the past few decades. He helped me get my very first gig. His bookstore is a treasure trove of gorgeous art and behind the scenes knowledge. I can't recommend it enough.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
They should invent a way out that isn't through
"Writing is the visible sign of thought in motion, and the freedom to pursue thought is not one granted through centralised tech monopolies"
thehaunt.substack.com/p/on-moral-r...
A really excellent piece on AI, and well the point of it all.
Only this morning I came across a Reddit post in which a bank employee complained that they were being disciplined for not using AI to write a short memo to their manager.
That the actual memo was well written and made sense did not matter. They were *obliged* to use AI.
"The imperative to use AI to create is an attempt to frame a problem of politics as a problem of efficiency. I do not need to be more efficient, I need time and freedom to read and to think and to write and to fail as we all do."
“AI is less a technology for generating text and more a disciplinary mechanism for keeping employees on a short lease while inculcating in them a sense of their own inherent disposability.”
Jon is cooking.
“The imperative to use AI to create is an attempt to frame a problem of politics as a problem of efficiency. I do not need to be more efficient, I need time and freedom to read and to think and to write and to fail as we all do.”
Heads up! I just got word from my contact at @uminnpress.bsky.social that actual copies of my book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING have arrived with their distributor, so early orders should start shipping pretty soon!! 🤗🎉 www.upress.umn.edu/978151792108...
"The imperative to use AI to create is an attempt to frame a problem of politics as a problem of efficiency. I do not need to be more efficient, I need time and freedom to read and to think and to write and to fail as we all do."
"So much of life, mediated as it is by the monopoly platforms of digital capitalism, seems to boil down to an inescapable feeling of always being behind, and of always apologizing that the thing I said I was really excited about doing months ago hasn’t yet appeared." Whew.
A shot of the dome of St Paul's and Blackfriars Railway Station
One of Rothko's Seagram Murals, dark and forbidding in the airy gallery of the Tate Modern
One of Emin's beautiful blankets, part of a new retrospective at the Tate Modern
Tracey Emin, "My Bed"
What a day, Emin and Rothko at the Tate Modern and getting to watch the London Symphony Orchestra perform my friend's opera of the work of Han Kang at the Barbican, truly sometimes we are forced to ask: is London actually.good?
Also Tracey Emin at the Tate Modern is intense, brutal, funny and thrilling
"I could do that"
No, you couldn't what are you talking about
Rothko in the flesh is always an unbelievable experience.
Author of THE MARIGOLD and coauthor of THE HANDYMAN METHOD Andrew F. Sullivan's EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD, pitched as Nosferatu meets Succession and drawing on Irish folklore, about territorial, supernatural beings desperate to thrive in the modern world and the ramshackle attempt to halt their domination, to Ed Schlesinger at Gallery, by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid (world English)
we out here.
(it's currently in the process of being written -- a sequel of sorts to Capitalism A Horror Story, on the properties of property, haunted houses, finance, the horror of the home and the utopian possibilities beyond the limits of private property)
Deeply moved to hear this Sophie, impossible to over state how much your work had helped shape my next book too so thank you!!
Enormously grateful to @reproutopia.bsky.social for this piece: not only an excellent review of books exemplifying some of the trends within contemporary horror criticism but also a wonderful exploration of the collectivity that draws us to horror in the first place: massreview.org/2026/03/03/s...
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
I'm ngl this is one of my favourite AH episodes. Peasant epistemologies, apocalyptic communism, Marxist historiography, the counter-revolution at the heart of modern concepts of freedom? All here! open.spotify.com/episode/200K...
The front cover of Persona by Aoife Josie Clements
10. Aoife Josie Clements, "Persona" -- starts off as what appears to be a very individual kind of body horror before widening into something existentially horrifying, done in a way I've seen very few writers pull off. Strange, deeply scary and tender -- another very impressive horror debut.
