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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My latest book CRISIS MASCULINITY is out on 10 September. It's about male identity, toxic masculinity, and the pressures of late capitalism. "Challenging, illuminating, and essential reading." DARREN MCGARVEY "Urgent and essential." EWAN MORRISON bramegieben.bigcartel.com/product/cris...

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

My new essay series begins with a critical reading of concepts from Judith Butler's 'Gender Trouble' and an introduction to some of the themes I'll explore. Read now 💪 bit.ly/crisismasc

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

👻 NEW STRANGE EXILES! 👻 Poet and theorist Alex Mazey, author of 'Sad Boy Aesthetics' from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and the forthcoming 'Rival Streamer' from @trickhouse.bsky.social on Jean Baudrillard, Mark Fisher, video games and Lil Peep 🎧 bit.ly/strangex42

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Re-upping this skeet for those who may want to follow, as I'll be bailing from this place soon 🙏 Join me!

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

NEW ESSAY SERIES! 💪 A year-long journey into the #manosphere, modern #masculinity, and the dark underbelly of capitalist realism from the author of THE DARKEST TIMELINE. Find out more and sign up free: bit.ly/crisismasc

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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Marx saw the issue of censorship as central to his critique of the economic system. Read more here on Revol Press's substack: revolpress.substack.com/p/marx-and-c...

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We're all going to capitalist hell

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Just need 6 more folk to sign up free for Strange Exiles to hit 1k on Substack. If you're not already on the list, hit the link, drop your email. I'll be ghosting all social media soon, so get involved if you want to follow my writing! 🙏 strangeexiles.substack.com

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This looks utterly compelling but will be a tough watch for me as a person who has struggled a great deal with my bipolar. It's cost me so much, on a personal level. But this sounds like an outstanding achievement in documentary filmmaking. youtu.be/OpKEUIAkO_Q?...

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In Whose Name? | Teaser Trailer | Only In Theaters September 19

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Christopher Lasch’s Angry Ghost @ghostofchristo1.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

New essay. From triumphal 1990s ideas about an American century underpinned by Internet power, to the mid-2010s belief that social media was a “global conversation,” to mid-2020s anxieties about communication breakdowns and civil war. open.substack.com/pub/paroxysm...

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Managing the Global Discourse

Care, Content Moderation, and Cultural Imperialism

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

My first piece for Discontent dropped today, drawing on the philosophy of Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Slavoj Žižek and Julie Reshe. www.discontent.wtf/news/against...

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Against 'Morality': How moral certainties subvert ideology

Subverting Ideology

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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

See on the Revol Press substack a transcript of a talk by Mark Fisher on education and capitalism, given at the MACRO museum, Rome, in 2013. revolpress.substack.com/p/towards-a-...

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Towards a Free Education: Conference Speech Transcript – Mark Fisher (2013)

The late Mark Fisher on neoliberalism, education, and the task of rebuilding the left to counteract capitalist realism.

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I sort of understand why happy escapist bullshit dominates the cultural landscape at the moment, and the notion that expressing joy is a political act in dark times. But I also hope doomer / depressive / transgressive aesthetics come back before I'm too old to make new art.

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a man is dressed as a clown with a rainbow wig

ALT: a man is dressed as a clown with a rainbow wig

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I was on This Is Revolution today with the homie Jason Myles talking left wing publishing, the far right clown show, protest, mental health and more. Watch it back! 💥 www.youtube.com/live/BwtWG9S...

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Left Publishing in the Trump Era ft. Mike and Bram from Revol Press

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

My latest essay on the Poll Tax riot, the anti-Iraq War marches, and why we need to rethink how we protest in order to beat the rise of the far right. Now on the Revol Press blog: revolpress.substack.com/p/lost-arts-...

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

👻 NEW EPISODE! 👻 I talk to writer and artist Robert Shepherd about his essay series 'Our Ghost', plus memes, Marxism, Doctor Who, and his thoughts on our dystopian AI future. 🎧 bit.ly/strangex41 📚 strangeexiles.substack.com

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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

People look to social media to assert themselves, but to what degree does it undermine their subjectivity, reducing them to object status? An excerpt from Mike Watson's 'Hungry Ghosts in the Machine' revolpress.substack.com/p/nietzsche-...

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Nietzsche and the Nihilism of Shitposting

People look to social media to assert themselves, but to what degree does it undermine their subjectivity, reducing them to object status? An excerpt from Mike Watson's 'Hungry Ghosts in the Machine'

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A podcast about ideas, identity and ideology. This is Strange Exiles⏳ bit.ly/strangex40 Tish & Adam Turl bit.ly/strangex39 Simon Copland bit.ly/strangex38 Chris Kelso bit.ly/strangex37 Brad Kelly ... more soon

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Thanks for all the great feedback, questions and arguments this post has generated in comments and DMs! 🙏

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

NEW ESSAY FOR REVOL PRESS! Just over a year since I published The Darkest Timeline, a book that took a deep dive into the idea of “the end of the world.” Did I predict things accurately? Thanks to Revol and @mikerwatson.bsky.social 👇 revolpress.substack.com/p/bram-e-gie...

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Bram E. Gieben: Farther down 'The Darkest Timeline'

One year on from the publication of his book on our dystopian present and dark future, the author and critic asks - have things gotten worse?

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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I answer some interview questions on the Revol Press substack about the future of publishing in general, and what Revol plans next. I also talk about how we stay out of divisive left mudslinging: revolpress.substack.com/p/running-an... Illustration: Vladan Jeremic w/ @bramegieben.bsky.social

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Running an independent left press today: Interview with Mike Watson

Revol Press founder Mike Watson talks about left publishing, the future of the press, and what it means to be genuinely independent. Plus, what's coming next...

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

On the escalation of fascist tendencies in US politics, from my conversation with @bornagainlabor.bsky.social on the latest Strange Exiles 🚩 bit.ly/strangex40

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The gaffer at Revol, pulling nae punches 💥

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

What if you could send #ElonMusk back in time to kill all the baby versions of himself before he became a capitalist monster? Tish and Adam Turl aka @bornagainlabor.bsky.social on why we need to legalize time travel, from the latest Strange Exiles⏳ bit.ly/strangex40

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Ricky Monahan Brown @rickyballboy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Via new Scottish publisher Tantallon Tìr for 274 Miles, a collection of work by some of the most exciting contemporary writers in Scotland (and me): ‘Finish something. Stare at its imperfections, fix them, expunge them, do whatever you need to do, but finish it.’ tantallontir.com/author-spotl...

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Exploring the Works and Writing of Ricky Monahan Brown

Explore the literary world of Ricky Monahan Brown, a Scottish writer inspired by Stevenson and known for his captivating stories and poetry.

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

NEW STRANGE EXILES! Artists, writers and curators @bornagainlabor.bsky.social and partner Tish Turl discuss their work with Locust Review and the Born Again Labor Museum 🎨 bit.ly/strangex40

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Episode 40: Adam & Tish Turl - Art, Activism and Hope

Writers, artists and curators Adam and Tish Turl on the origins of their Born Again Labor Museum project, the Locust Review collective and more

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This absolutely broke me 😓 #gbc youtu.be/MGgNg1rfJVk

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Company of Wolves @companyofwolves.org · 12/08/2025

Assembly's doing a flash sale! COME SEE THE SHOW. @edfringe.bsky.social

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Get along to this if you can 👍 www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Repost for the 💙 crowd. If you're the type of person who believes in trigger warnings, safe spaces, and myths about recovery as a victory over adversity, go and see Darren McGarvey at the Fringe. You'll leave changed. 10/10 www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2459/...

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Trauma Industrial Complex: The Live Show is Darren McGarvey’s unflinching, darkly humorous deep dive into the rise of trauma culture.As a live companion to h...

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Mike - certainly not an LLM hallucination @sellmeyoursoul.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Only Collapse by the prophet @bramegieben.bsky.social came up on shuffle today and if it doesn’t sum up our modern era, I don’t know what does. Also it’s a banger. Listen, purchase, support the arts, continue to fight back against entropy!

Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Tomorrow night 🫶 Come see if I got rusty

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This is actually tomorrow, 5 August, I effed up the dates. See you there? 👀

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Still a few weeks left to get in touch with Revol about this opportunity. Thanks to everyone we've spoken to so far!

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Final clip from my interview with Simon Copland about the toxic politics and very real needs of men who fall into "the #manosphere" - and the theory that inspired The Male Complaint, from @politybooks.bsky.social. Follow the 🔗 in bio to subscribe to Strange Exiles 💪 More soon...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 30/07/2025

“Scottish radical traditions have been airbrushed out of history… Re-examining the threads of Alexander Trocchi’s influence on culture, publishing and radical politics is an antidote to this process of erasure.” Trocchi’s influence on radical Scottish media bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/15/c...

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Cosmonauts and Stale Porridge, Alexander Trocchi’s Influence on Radical Scottish Media

Cosmonauts and Stale Porridge, Alexander Trocchi’s Influence on Radical Scottish Media, exploring Scotland’s radical publishing traditions. This is adapted from a talk at the Trocchi at 100 event i…

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Easing back into hiphop / spoken word gigs and recording. Just filled in an artist bio: I write about apocalypse, cyberpunk and disaffection 🤘 Catch me at Flourish spoken word, McChuills, Glasgow, 6 Aug. Don't call it a comeback linktr.ee/t3xtur3

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 28/07/2025

ALT Book Fringe 2025 4–29 Aug, Edinburgh Entirely run & curated by 3 of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – @argonautbooks.bsky.social, @lighthousebks.bsky.social & @typewronger.bsky.social – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-...

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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Revol Press (which I co-run with Bram E Gieben) are looking for submissions: 'Left wing theory publisher Revol Press seek new books by authors who identify as female, or who come from other marginalised communities.' Details here: opportunities.creativescotland.com/opportunity/...

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Nonfiction: Proposals sought by Revol Press

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

OPPORTUNITY: Left wing theory publisher Revol Press seek new books by authors who identify as female, or who come from other marginalised communities. Via @creativescots.bsky.social DM me or @mikerwatson.bsky.social with any questions 🙏 opportunities.creativescotland.com/opportunity/...

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