In a similar vein, video that goes into how Obsession and Backrooms both critique consumerism, AI, and capitalism as a whole.
youtu.be/yUiJdyYmvuU?...
We’re introducing Darker Times team members this week over on Instagram, but what better way to get to know us than through our writing?
@emilyhughes.bsky.social’s piece, Getting Back to the Why, is available to read now!
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Signed copies of what are in my opinion two of the best left-wing books of the century:
NEW VIDEO! I look at Tony Blair's politics of "Radical centrism", compare it to Poulantzas' view of Authoritarian Statism and show how Blair's obsession with AI is the logical end point of trying to squeeze the masses out of democracy (link below)
DO NOT MISS: @thelitcritguy.bsky.social on Obsession
It'll change your life, I swear.
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still thinking about this very good analysis of Obsession from @thelitcritguy.bsky.social: "Bear willingly makes Nikki into an object, not just with the magic of the One Wish Willow, but through a social logic that is incapable of understanding subjectivity outside of the idea of a means to an end."
NEW WRITING: On Curry Barker's excellent horror movie Obsession, objectification and the alienating horror of the contemporary social world. Very excited to be back at @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/obsessi...
Gareth Watkins
NEW WRITING: On Curry Barker's excellent horror movie Obsession, objectification and the alienating horror of the contemporary social world. Very excited to be back at @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/obsessi...
John Duncan
writer.
phd in gothic literature. writing on horror, utopia, the gothic nightmare of capitalism
CAPITALISM A HORROR STORY out now, working on a new book about HOUSES
Jon
In director Curry Barker’s hit indie horror film, we can see the fundamental ghastliness of consumer society.
(essentially inarguable that this model of objectification is bound up within patriarchal misogyny and a wider reactionary political movement too because all of that depends on seeing other people as not real people)
