An Anti*Capitalist Resistance roundup. Three new(ish) pieces of mine available on the A*CR. Capitalism without a Human Face is a review...

A further appraisal of web 2.0, the left, and online fascism Some time ago I took the decision to leave twitter. I did this for...

The fourth instalment of my close read of Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope. Every essay is a stand-alone piece, but if you want to...

A look at camp, kitsch, bad movies, good movies, and the Matrix franchise. With a fourth Matrix film on its way, there is a renewed...

On teaching the short story Although I love to talk at length on my passions, sometimes oblivious to the social cues and niceties that...

A look back and forwards at The New. How long ago was The New? Some twenty odd years. There is a vast ocean of time between right now and...

We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no...

This is a roundup of a group of articles I have recently done for the Anti*Capitalist Resistance on trans solidarity. These were largely...

An examination of some of the political assumptions behind the dystopian literary genre. Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle...

On overcoming writing procrastination. The alleged problem of writer’s block is, in truth, often one of various different and deeper...

SPOILER ALERT: This blog contains spoilers for The Mist (Netflix 2017). Recently I watched Netflix’s The Mist, a TV series adaptation of...

An essay about VR gaming technology, what it can do and what does it mean. The first time I ever experienced VR (virtual reality) was—I...

The third installment of my close read of Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope. Every essay is a stand-alone piece, but if you want to...

Alcibiades as a young villain. There is a type of popular villain today defined, in the main, by their extreme likeability. And they are...

A blog inspired by a heat wave, about why I wrote it. Honestly, I was considering cancelling one week’s blogging in response to how much...

This is a review of Andrea Lawlor’s book Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl. CW for explicit discussions of sexuality. I love the word...

Why No Man’s Sky is a unique and, ultimately, brilliant game; a meditation through exploration. No Man’s Sky is a procedurally generated...

In this piece I look at the value I have found from writing and publishing one essay per week. For a considerable time, I have been...

A Review of Hannah Dee’s The Red in the Rainbow: Sexuality, Socialism and LGBT Liberation (2010) and an examination of changing...

Judge Dredd and Doctor Who, a neoliberal dystopia. Grimdark takes its name from the miniature wargame Warhammer 40,000, and its famous...