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@thelitcritguy.bsky.social
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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

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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Seventeen to go. Only seventeen 🫠
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s wild how late they are. Cute was the aesthetic move fifteen years ago, now dominated by korean and Chinese producers. And also that thing isn’t that cute www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/fro...
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From minimal to magical: Playful designs, cute collaborations reshape K-beauty marketing
Korea's beauty industry is ramping up collaborations with cute, popular characters for limited-edition merchandise to generate hype on social media and drive sales. The shift reflects the industry’s f...
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you'd like to know what reading dozens upon dozens of 40k novels can do to a person, I invite you to listen to the below.
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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How do we narrativize dystopia when utopian futures have faded? How does the Horus Heresy help us understand Hegel's ideas about tragedy, religion, and Empire? Join @laboringleon.bsky.social , @thelitcritguy.bsky.social , and myself as we get Grimdark! open.spotify.com/episode/6J1P...
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
living through a red scare in Berlin while Nazis are taking over other states is very exciting! if only someone diagnosed the mass psychology of group paranoia
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Rip Ferrus Manus, you would have loved Armoured Core VI by FromSoftware
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Steve Baxi @stevebaxi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🚨NEW POST🚨 Zach Cregger's take on Resident Evil is a blast, trading out a gun-totting Milla Jovovich in favor of traditional survival horror that embodies all the anxiety of its spineless yet lovable lead. Great time at the movies! 🔗 www.patreon.com/stevebaxi/po...
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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On the next episode of Acid Horizon:
Dan Abnett's title from the book "Horus Rising" but it says "Hegel Rising: The seeds of heresy are sown"
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reposting because I have under one month left of an interminable three-month notice period, and any and all bits of freelance work I can get in the meantime is going to help me through a financially difficult time as I start working for myself.
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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"The forces of the enemy mobilise a political subject, but not in a history of their choosing." Me for Prometheus drawing on Baudrillard, Jonas Marvin, Kian Aspinall and @johntheduncan.bsky.social 's analysis of 'neoliberal fascisms' in the consumer society.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/09/2026
#OtD 10 Sep 1676 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley died aged 66. He was a tailor and the primary theoretician of the Diggers during the English civil war who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8250...
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Let people enjoy things? No.
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
reading this like dearheadofmine.substack.com/p/the-nonfic...
Marge Simpson saying "at times like this, I guess all you can do is laugh" as she sits in silence
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wrote a whole book about why this is true 🙏
The front cover for "A Primer on Utopian philosophy"
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sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
you heard it here first: Gretchen and I are in the business of making you look cool and business is booming 😎
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In my review of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, I talk about letting go of discourse, getting out of your head, and embracing bimbo mindset.
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Realizing I have more James Swallow novels in my future
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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For the latest bonus episode of Acid Horizon I spoke to @jonasmarvin.bsky.social about his latest book The Breaking of the English Working Class. open.spotify.com/episode/5uK0...
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*PATREON PREVIEW* 'The Breaking of the English Working Class' with Jonas Patrick Marvin
Acid Horizon · Episode
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The girl gremlin is trans and I'm certain she got her ideas of glamour from Bugs Bunny. If we look at the evidence in the film then we know that they reproduce asexually when Gizmo is soaked with water. They are all versions of TV obsessed Gizmo who was assigned male at bi-[is tackled by security]
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Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We'll be exploring the future of AI with Eleanor Drage and @ceciliarikap.bsky.social on 7/10! In conversation with @thelitcritguy.bsky.social, we'll explore how corporations wield their power using AI and how to re-determine what AI should be for. 🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
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Prometheus Magazine @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Adam C. Jones looks at how neoliberalism has restructured the political subjects required for classical fascism, producing a "Simulacral Fascism" of signs and sensibilities detached from historical forms. prometheus-mag.com/2026/09/01/t...
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
oh you hate AI huh. well what if it was a lifesaving vaccine instead. not so easy now is it
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Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 28/08/2026
In my latest essay, I discuss Unedited Footage of a Bear, This House Has People In It, sharing art with the people you love, and how that experience can give you permission to see art in new ways You can read it now for free, along with my entire archive, at the link below
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Looking For Meaning In Other People's Houses
Let's talk about how important it is to share weird art with the people you love.
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The Gotham Guillotine @gothamguillotine.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
While we've received many terrifying stories, chilling poems, and spooky essays, we haven't received as much art for our third issue. If you're an artist, graphic designer, or photographer, please consider submitting your scariest work to us.
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sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"This stunning debut plunges the reader in a decadent dreamscape of 1870s Paris."-Chelsea G Summers "The unholy progeny of Anne Rice and Karl Marx."-Natalie Adler "[P]erhaps the most vital, politically engaged vampire novel of the last decade.”-Ancillary Review of Books THE RED SACRAMENT out now🩸
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The Red Sacrament
A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris on the cusp of revolt and revolution, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and ...
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Byronic Commando @wench.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
moby dick is so funny
footnote at the bottom of a page: I am aware that down to the present time, the fish styled Lamantins and Dugongs (Pig-fish and Sow-fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are included by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig-fish are a nosy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Working on something very special for all the goths out there alongside @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social
Gothic Marxism: A manifesto on the dark way of being red. 

Adam C. Jones & Jon Greenaway 

Spectres, ghosts, horror and monstrosity are everywhere. These discourses are not simply aesthetic or cultural markers. These are political symptoms, produced by a necrotic and decaying capitalism. As a result, the last few years have seen an increasing interest in an analysis of the horrors that surround us, for a Marxism that can speak to the bleak, seemingly haunted nature of our present moment. What follows is not intended as an exhaustive or rigid program for Gothic Marxism, but a series of interrelated principles that feed into one another, acting as a guide to shape analysis of the current conjuncture and, like a flare in the night, illustrate our own illumination on the dark way of being red.
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Working on something very special for all the goths out there alongside @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social
Gothic Marxism: A manifesto on the dark way of being red. 

Adam C. Jones & Jon Greenaway 

Spectres, ghosts, horror and monstrosity are everywhere. These discourses are not simply aesthetic or cultural markers. These are political symptoms, produced by a necrotic and decaying capitalism. As a result, the last few years have seen an increasing interest in an analysis of the horrors that surround us, for a Marxism that can speak to the bleak, seemingly haunted nature of our present moment. What follows is not intended as an exhaustive or rigid program for Gothic Marxism, but a series of interrelated principles that feed into one another, acting as a guide to shape analysis of the current conjuncture and, like a flare in the night, illustrate our own illumination on the dark way of being red.
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Jon Irwin @winwinirwin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"It is the logic of the assembly line applied to human connection." Missed it the first time around. But love this piece from @thelitcritguy.bsky.social, fellow J-O-N. Also interesting stuff about the commodification of play. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...
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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The new China Mieville novel got sent to me in two volumes. Part one is over 600 pages.
The Rouse by China Mieville part one
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I'm still thinking about the @currentaffairs.bsky.social article about Jimmy Fallon "Fallon acts as the high priest of a terrified optimism, his rictus grin serving as a shield against the encroaching silence of the real." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...
currentaffairs.org
The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So does any paying outlet want to commission me to write about what happens to the UK right wing after Nigel Farage, because I have Thoughts.
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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 18/08/2026
When you finish, drop the $7.50 to unlock @thelitcritguy.bsky.social's Patreon post on it--it clarified some things for me about the philosophical dynamics of the novel: www.patreon.com/TheLitCritGu...
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Climbing Stories: On The Magic Mountain. | TheLitCritGuy
Climbing Stories: On The Magic Mountain. by TheLitCritGuy on Patreon. Join TheLitCritGuy's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
MILWAUKEE — this THURSDAY come out to @boswellbooks.bsky.social and hang with Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece and I — RSVP 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/devin-thom... @mkedsa.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
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Devin Thomas O'Shea, author of THE VEILED PROPHET- a Boswell event
In conversation with Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece.
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think about this point by Adorno so often of late.
My thesis about this would be that all
humans deep down, whether they admit this or not, know that it
would be possible or it could be different. Not only could they live
without hunger and probably without anxiety, but they could also
live as free human beings. At the same time, the social apparatus has
hardened itself against people, and thus, whatever appears before
their eyes all over the world as attainable possibility, as the evident
possibility of fulfillment, presents itself to them as radically impossible. And when people universally say today what was once reserved
only for philistines in more harmless times, "Oh, that's just utopian;
oh, that's possible only in the land of Cockaigne. Basically that
shouldn't be like that at all," then I would say that this is due to the
situation compelling people to master the contradiction between the
evident possibility offulfillment and the just as evident impossibility
offulfillment only in this way, compelling them to identify themselves
with this impossibility and to make this impossibility into their own
affair. In other words, to use Freud, they "identify themselves with
the aggressor" and say that this should not be, whereby they feel that
it is precisely this that should be, but they are prevented from attaining
it by a wicked spell cast over the world.
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A real pleasure and privilege to talk with the Centre for Postcapitalist theory on "Capitalism A Horror Story", gothic Marxism and the challenges of emancipatory thinking today ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Seems like a worthwhile episode to click on and listen to tbh. I'm not biased at all just speaking objectively seems like something you want to check out. You specifically.
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Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 11/08/2026
The Sameer Project is pausing operations due to a lack of funding. This is devastating. If you can support their efforts, please do so. Every penny goes to helping families in Palestine survive
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
😭
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Astronaut in Distress
Alt: Astronaut in Distress
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
doing the most embrassing thing possible, writing about my own writing www.patreon.com/TheLitCritGu...
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a short note on being seen and some (perhaps) overly harsh self criticism | TheLitCritGuy
Forgive me, but I'm going to do something profoundly embarrassing - write something about my own writing. For reasons I won't get into at th
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Alex Booer @alexbooer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Every time Jon talks about haunted houses I learn something, uh, horrifying, about real life. So I’m looking forward to this one!
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
you have to GO INTO IT soundcloud.com/user-3179105...
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249 - Super Mario Bros with John Leavitt!
It'sa me, one of the most infamous video game movies of all time! We're joined by John Leavitt to talk about Super Mario Bros! ...and don't you worry, it's got slime monsters, body horror, and the
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Jax Romana, Bimbo Reprobate ✨🌹🌈 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
FUCK YEAH JON LET'S GO
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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
there is no one i know personally more deserving of this. so excited.
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The Gotham Guillotine @gothamguillotine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Contributors to The Gotham Guillotine's Issue 3: Gothic Marxism will appear alongside writing by @scumbelievable.bsky.social, @thelitcritguy.bsky.social, Alison Rumfitt, and an interview with China Miéville. Submissions are open until September 16th. Link in bio. Submit now OR ELSE!
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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 06/08/2026
hell yes HELL YES
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