Jack Graham

The Hidden Abode

On The Boy (2016)

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2023-10-29 23:55:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Force Decides; on Israel-Palestine, bourgeois law & order, and a Marxist morality

This was written some years ago.  It remains depressingly relevant.

It is now clear to a great many people that what happened to the Native Americans as a result of t...

Robinson Crusoe and Zombies

On the End of the World, the Zombie Apocalypse, and other comforting Bourgeois Fantasies

Say what you like about the zombie apocalypse but at least you don’t have to go ...

The Property of Property

On Possession, Property, and Haunting; on Colonialism, Alienation, and Commodity Fetishism

Part 3 of a Gothic Marxist Consideration of Horror as Capitalist Cultural Production

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The Misogyny Vortex

On Horror, Women, Patriarchy, and Misogyny

Part 2 of a Gothic Marxist Consideration of Horror as Capitalist Cultural Production

The Conjuring movies are about good and...

Conjuring the Past

On Horror, Childhood, Memory, and Time

Part 1 of a Gothic Marxist consideration of Horror as Capitalist Cultural Production

In recent years, the mass culture industries have re...

'These Things of Darkness'; Dracula and Frankenstein as Gothic Capitalist Production

“This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine” - The Tempest

Adaptation, Culture, and Production

Dracula, the novel, and Frankenstein, the novel, have ...

Spooktober 2: Candyman (1992)

Myself, George, and Elliot continue our Halloween-season tour through the Horror movies that fascinate us with a conversation about 1992's unique and indefinable Candyman, based on a story...

Patreon have fucked this whole thing up

Okay.

Thanks to fucking Patreon fucking around with a perfectly good system and fucking it all to fucking hell, things have to change here.  No longer can we do it the nice, simple, easy...

Todorov and the Fantastic

A section from an essay I wrote about the TV series Legion:

Tzvetan Todorov’s theory of ‘the Fantastic’ sees the genre bifurcating into the ‘uncanny’ and the ‘marvelous�...

The Fenstanton Witch by M.R. James AUDIOBOOK

I have read another eerie tale, this time an unfairly neglected late work by the master of the modern ghost story M.R. James.  

In the time of Queen Anne, two clerical scholars at Cambri...

Marxists on Fascism: What is National Socialism? by Leon Trotsky AUDIOBOOK

"Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois..."

In a few hundred brisk but bristling words, writte...

Lukundoo by Edward Lucas Wright AUDIOBOOK

An audiobook of a short horror story.  White explorers meet revolting retribution in Africa.  An intriguing text with much to tell us about the morbid, sick, anxious psychology of racism,...

Same Log Spooktober 2 - Prince of Darkness (1987)

George, Elliot, and myself chat about John Carpenter's strange, unique, ominous, thoughtful, undervalued masterpiece Prince of Darkness from 1987.  As usual, we get into lots of digressions wh...

What is Fascism? (1934) by Ignazio Silone - AUDIOBOOK

An exclusive for my patrons.  Another little audiobook, in which I read the 20th century Italian Marxist Ignazio Silone's crystalline delineation of fascism from a book he published in 1934. &...

Same Log Spooktober 2: Manhunter (1986)

We're putting Hannibal Digested onto hiatus for a month and doing another Halloween season of four movies through October.  Segueing back via Michael Mann's Manhunter from 1986, the first movi...

IDSG Bonus Ep30 In Cold Blood

We're back, both of us, with a bonus episode to carefully dip our toes back in the brackish, fetid waters of IDSG.

In this episode we talk about In Cold Blood - Truman Capote's book,...

Hannibal Digested, Show 4 - Sorbet & Fromage

As the series kicks into high gear, so does our humble podcast.   

In Sorbet, we see Hannibal inspired and hunting for the ingredients for a banquet.  In Fromage, Hannibal make...

Wrong With Authority ep7: Gangs of New York

Here's one from the vaults, an old episode of now-defunct but fondly remembered podcast Wrong with Authority, featuring myself, Daniel, and our friends James Murphy and Kit Power.  On the show...

Hannibal Digested, Show 3 - 1.5 Coquilles & 1.6 Entrée

The meal continues.  Two more courses.

Lovecraft Retrospective: In the Walls of Eryx (1936)

George Lea asked me to join him and our mutual friend Rowan Fortune on an episode of George's running series of 2023-07-14 13:15:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Hannibal Digested, Show 2

Hey patrons, here's your exclusive advance access to the next episode of Hannibal Digested, in which I go through every episode of the bizarrely wonderful, gruesome, gothic, hallucinatory, literary...

Hannibal Digested, Show 1

As promised, here's the first part of the new collaboration between myself, the toothsome George Daniel Lea, and the frankly mouthwatering Elliot Chapman.  In this inaugural episode of Han...