Shawn Gilmore
@gipperfish.bsky.social
Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.
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Shawn Gilmore
@gipperfish.bsky.social
· Apr 25
“We’re organizing for a revolution in America”: Remaking Resistance in Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017) — The Vault of Culture
In this feature, Shawn Gilmore argues that MachineGames’ soft reboot entries in the Wolfenstein franchise, set in a world overrun by Nazi machines of war, increasingly humble (both physically and em...
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Now's a great time to check out my piece from a few weeks ago, considering how resistance and revolution are imagined in MachineGames' Wolfenstein reboots, over at @vaultofculture.bsky.social:
www.vaultofculture.com/vault/featur...
www.vaultofculture.com/vault/featur...
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Our dystopian future is looking light, bright, and just a touch whimsical.
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Our dystopian future is looking light, bright, and just a touch whimsical.
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This story sums up college football very neatly: a player stabs two of his teammates (violence is a ubiquitous part of the sport, even internal to the team, even off he field, even encouraged by coaches)… and then the game proceeds as if nothing is out of the ordinary.
Because it isn’t, really.
Because it isn’t, really.
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This story sums up college football very neatly: a player stabs two of his teammates (violence is a ubiquitous part of the sport, even internal to the team, even off he field, even encouraged by coaches)… and then the game proceeds as if nothing is out of the ordinary.
Because it isn’t, really.
Because it isn’t, really.
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Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Meet THE DOOMS! ALL CAPS!
Tribute art of the four coolest Dooms pop culture's gotta offer!
Tribute art of the four coolest Dooms pop culture's gotta offer!
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Meet THE DOOMS! ALL CAPS!
Tribute art of the four coolest Dooms pop culture's gotta offer!
Tribute art of the four coolest Dooms pop culture's gotta offer!
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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Batman: Dark Patterns #11 (DC, Dec 2025) contains a classic obsessive wall: www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...
NST #1322: Batman: Dark Patterns #11 (Dec 2025) — The Vault of Culture
Batman: Dark Patterns #11 (DC, Dec 2025) contains a classic obsessive wall.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Batman: Dark Patterns #11 (DC, Dec 2025) contains a classic obsessive wall: www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
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Earlier this month, lawsuits brought against OpenAI suggested the potential of ChatGPT to cause serious mental health harms in users.
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Earlier this month, lawsuits brought against OpenAI suggested the potential of ChatGPT to cause serious mental health harms in users.
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.
My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Ok, it's that time of year again - gearing up to make an overly complicated popup card for my boy's birthday! Sharing a few from over the years that I'm particularly pleased with... (none of these photograph very well, videos of them give a better sense) 1/?
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ok, it's that time of year again - gearing up to make an overly complicated popup card for my boy's birthday! Sharing a few from over the years that I'm particularly pleased with... (none of these photograph very well, videos of them give a better sense) 1/?
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An endless theme of my millennial life is perpetual bailouts for irresponsible and reckless corporations.
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
An endless theme of my millennial life is perpetual bailouts for irresponsible and reckless corporations.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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If you haven't seen it. It's not full legit 100% he missed Alexander but at least realized he fucked up and admitted it that's marathons. This also has someone singing the song Celes sings at the opera live it's pure content
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
If you haven't seen it. It's not full legit 100% he missed Alexander but at least realized he fucked up and admitted it that's marathons. This also has someone singing the song Celes sings at the opera live it's pure content
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"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
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You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
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PS The fact this girl is now basically the sigil of a money-making machine is, of course, sickening.
One that, for instance, someone like Patrick Bateman is casually looking at every morning during their first piss before getting ready to go out and destroy lives
One that, for instance, someone like Patrick Bateman is casually looking at every morning during their first piss before getting ready to go out and destroy lives
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
PS The fact this girl is now basically the sigil of a money-making machine is, of course, sickening.
One that, for instance, someone like Patrick Bateman is casually looking at every morning during their first piss before getting ready to go out and destroy lives
One that, for instance, someone like Patrick Bateman is casually looking at every morning during their first piss before getting ready to go out and destroy lives
My colleague Lucinda Cole’s new book!
Excellent new book alert! Lucinda Cole's THE FIFTH PLAGUE: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities!
#C18L
#medicalhumanities
#animalstudies
In her words...
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link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#C18L
#medicalhumanities
#animalstudies
In her words...
1/2
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The Fifth Plague
This book offers a perspective on animal diseases and their impact on human society, enriching your understanding of interconnected health narratives.
link.springer.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
My colleague Lucinda Cole’s new book!
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“Conversation with Smaug”, by JRR Tolkien, for 1937’s “The Hobbit”.
I’ve no idea what state of mind Tolkien was in when he painted it. But every time I’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it a lot, I get the impression that he was having a really great time. It’s so zestful, in its details & as a whole.
I’ve no idea what state of mind Tolkien was in when he painted it. But every time I’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it a lot, I get the impression that he was having a really great time. It’s so zestful, in its details & as a whole.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“Conversation with Smaug”, by JRR Tolkien, for 1937’s “The Hobbit”.
I’ve no idea what state of mind Tolkien was in when he painted it. But every time I’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it a lot, I get the impression that he was having a really great time. It’s so zestful, in its details & as a whole.
I’ve no idea what state of mind Tolkien was in when he painted it. But every time I’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it a lot, I get the impression that he was having a really great time. It’s so zestful, in its details & as a whole.
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Stanislav Plutenko
Madonnas of Modernity, 2020
Oil and tempera on canvas
51 x 47 cm
Madonnas of Modernity, 2020
Oil and tempera on canvas
51 x 47 cm
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Stanislav Plutenko
Madonnas of Modernity, 2020
Oil and tempera on canvas
51 x 47 cm
Madonnas of Modernity, 2020
Oil and tempera on canvas
51 x 47 cm
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.