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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

The following essay on walking simulators/critical look at What Remains of Edith Finch contains spoilers. But now I’m starting to worry...

A question for readers... One of the projects I am keen to work on is a study of grimdark fiction. This week I wish to take a break from...

Ideology in Martinaise and La Mancha Much is made of the complexity of the world of Disco Elysium, but its setting is really nothing more...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a review of Unheimlich Manoevres in the Dark....

The second 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...

Review On the Shoulders of Otava & Naming the Bones Before reading Laura Mauro On the Shoulders of Otava, I decided to pick up Naming the...

Not a plot contrivance, nor cultural relativism, nor justified The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy… and a...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay is a review of Philip K. Dick’s Time Out Of...

This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay is about apocolypse, revolution and Robinson...

A review of the zine LOST FUTURES ‘Almost-worlds begging to be made real.’ — kieran cutting ‘My temporal record has jumped, from chapter...