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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another wonderful example of why we should all regard the Grim Reaper ambivalently at the worst, one day he will come for tech bros too no matter how hard they try to live forever.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We do that so well here,will Burnham get a pawn ♟ promotion in America 🇺🇸

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A really good play would not make this all worth while, but good God it would be something at least

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I explore frozen time, linear time, cyclical time and spiraling time. I introduce the idea of agonistic monstrosity: the monster is an external enemy, and defeating it reinforces the existing order. & Constructive monstrosity where the monster destabilises the subject and forces transformation.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I argue that the monstrous Green Knight destabilises the symbolic structures through which Gawain understands himself—and that contemporary artists use horror and iconoclasm to make that destabilisation physically and psychologically perceptible.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My paper 'Time, Horror, and Iconoclasm: Creative Responses to SGGK' is published in The journal Études Médiévales Anglaises, I delivered this as a presentation in Nancy (France) and this paper is the formalized peer reviewed outcome. ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/27...

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A contemporary Shakespeare had better be taking note!

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

search engine attached that is to the NPC silly isn't it,

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ha, well I'm sure its a lucrative faith, all those interviews and funding etc. What he's talking to has less substance than a dream cipher or an imaginary friend since they both lend a little of the Other within. The AI kings have gamified the world, people are speaking to NPCs with a search engine

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

in that chase for contact the human is being rewritten within, I think, since our neural architecture is partly formed and maintained through communication with others, with all the extra ambivalences, so a man doing this is not just wasting time, or neglecting the species hes dulling his own brain

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes, something about the abyss of subjectivity puts them off, at least now I know why I have no friends AI has taken them all

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just fleeting thoughts, in the Scarface example the betrayal of the cultural artefact is more clear because the guy who thinks Tony is cool is really in conflict with the writer and director with AI its more a betrayal of humanity as such, or something

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes but they sort of know that at the same time so it becomes a sort of masturbatory act, a betrayal of the signified which in this case would be the human-seeming interface that itself points towards an actual human of which I think there are still quite a few of (lols)

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

first thought of this when a a guy in a hairdressers told me I needed to be more like Tony Montana and really go after what I wanted, I think knew we were done for then

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I shall call this 'signifier-thrall' a state in which a subject is captured by a signifier's affective surplus over its signified — pursuing the feeling the signifier delivers while refusing, via disavowal, a reachable or once-reachable real referent that the signifier was pointing toward.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I thought the news presenter really chickened out today when he said ‘a far right party has been elected in Germany for the first time since; World War Two’ I had time to say ‘go on say it’ but they couldn’t utter the N-word.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On this point didn’t the King beat him to that

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today lots of Reform people saying things about Ann Widdecombe was televised as a party political broadcast, this is surely a tribute to an individual. No policies were mentioned, what’s happening

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I find it Increasingly difficult not to become misanthropic and bitter in a world that includes these utterly ridiculous people.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m really pleased that my Article ‘Monsters and Fixity: The invasion narratives inside us’ was published in the journal Science Fiction Film and Television 19.2 2026; and my physical copy arrived 😊. They have generously included images and a table to accompany the text.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Come disaster, bring low the petty tyrants”

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Here is a link to UAL's depository version. ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/27...

ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My text 'Monsters and fixity: The invasion narratives inside us' has been published in the journal Science Fiction Film & Television Volume 19, Number 2 @livunipress.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... This article introduces the “monster of fixity” to sf-horror discourse

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

2/2...I'm assuming that my argument is supportive to theirs, my own analysis leans on Freud while theirs is more Lacanian, though this is no guarantee! I'm looking forward to reading the full chapter. @routledgebooks.bsky.social

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

1/2 My text 'A Sentimental Android? M3GAN (2022) and Monstrous Doubling as a Negotiation of the Gendered Neo-Liberal Self' in the CineJ Cinema Journal, has another citation! I'm thrilled with this ☺️ cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/cinej/ar... ... I will have to wait to see exactly what Joseph and Sara say...

The book cover of the text 'Cinema and the Dream of the Living Machine
Routledge Advances in Film Studies' by Joseph Zornado and Sara Reilly.

section of the book from publishers website.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

He really doesn’t seem to mind about “tempting fate” if the electorate are as superficial as him Bin-face will win, that’s the real joke to be made for this clown 🤡, here’s hoping 🤞

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Very fitting I look like the latter (only fatter) and study the former!

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Titane (2021) is a great example of how art/film can confound theory, it’s an excellent film but progressive it ain’t! The idea that Alexia is a queer or feminist icon involves an incredible refusal of what it’s aesthetics actually do, just ask me (😂): ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The MAMO conference is back! CFP below

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Renewal as Fatality Voyager and it’s Möbius Journeys through Deep Space

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

PM had the demeanour of a man in a strip club who wants to go home to his wife, but has to pretend it’s all such a great laugh. I never thought I’d sound so elitist but it’s all beneath me.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It’s not the worst thing he’s done on the micro or macro level; but strangely such a tacky, vile event is haunting. Bad taste with an infectious moral dimension, how many have had a strong enough vaccine? The PM was on This Morning talking about it, something has ended/beginning.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I will for sure, the premise is that there is a mode of monstrosity which acts as an agent of the evacuated present, which is counter-temporal in form and in actions, and politically regressive (appearing at points of social disorientation to reinstate a valorised past via heroic authority): 🤔

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My insanely talented daughter India had her final degree show (Fine Art) @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social (Chelsea). It’s gone so quickly and I’m so proud!

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

…coming essay publication on Monsters of Fixity which was a difficult sell, because monster theory people like the idea that all monsters are boundary defying, Anny-way this really helped 😊

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

You know this insight, over present past-no condition in the present-over present future, has featured in several of my publications and your text is also an underpinning of my book and…

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Tree attempts to Raise the Rocks (2026) observational drawing.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

‘We live under the dead’ (a view of the Bridgewater Monument) (2026) and Pawn ♟ Promotion (view from the Bridgewater Monument) (2026): Diptych, oil on canvas.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The ugliness is still surprising even though it’s been slow burning for a long long time

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Instead we have everyone feeling like they can/should use it, often passing texts between various LLMs odd times.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I think this would be so much simpler for UAL, it clarifies for students what inappropriate use is -any use- instead of the very vague brief by brief rules of engagement which seems mad to me. If this was rule some people would cheat others wouldn’t and those that did, some would get caught,

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A way out of poverty for those who can’t afford to move out to study shut down, this disgusts me.

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