Jon
@thelitcritguy.bsky.social
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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
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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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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new writing is now up on the haunt: thehaunt.blog/2025/11/25/t...
The Haunted House On Film Part One
Over the next few months I’ve decided to spend some time exploring the haunted house in horror film. Given the simplicity of the plots and the general structure which has become so well established…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
new writing is now up on the haunt: thehaunt.blog/2025/11/25/t...
new writing is now up on the haunt: thehaunt.blog/2025/11/25/t...
The Haunted House On Film Part One
Over the next few months I’ve decided to spend some time exploring the haunted house in horror film. Given the simplicity of the plots and the general structure which has become so well established…
thehaunt.blog
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
new writing is now up on the haunt: thehaunt.blog/2025/11/25/t...
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It's the end of the year, which means everyone is holding a fundraiser, and I am no exception, lmao.
I have some goals that I'm still working on meeting through the end of 2026. Help me get to 1000 subs and I will personally fight your boss👊 (jokes, jokes...)
I have some goals that I'm still working on meeting through the end of 2026. Help me get to 1000 subs and I will personally fight your boss👊 (jokes, jokes...)
This holiday season, I'm passing the hat
A plea for sustained support.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It's the end of the year, which means everyone is holding a fundraiser, and I am no exception, lmao.
I have some goals that I'm still working on meeting through the end of 2026. Help me get to 1000 subs and I will personally fight your boss👊 (jokes, jokes...)
I have some goals that I'm still working on meeting through the end of 2026. Help me get to 1000 subs and I will personally fight your boss👊 (jokes, jokes...)
writing this up for patrons and it should be up in in the next day or so
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
writing this up for patrons and it should be up in in the next day or so
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One of the things that I've been writing and researching over the past year is how people are neurologically, psychologically and systematically primed for political cruelty, and one of the only heartening things is this - that it would disappear if it wasn't maintained by massive effort.
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
One of the things that I've been writing and researching over the past year is how people are neurologically, psychologically and systematically primed for political cruelty, and one of the only heartening things is this - that it would disappear if it wasn't maintained by massive effort.
Some upcoming films in this series 👻👻👻
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Some upcoming films in this series 👻👻👻
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NEW WRITING: As I start on the next book I've decided to spend some time exploring the haunted house in horror film. FIrst up, Fulci! (If you have suggestions for films you think would be worth writing about, please do let me know!)
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Haunted House on Film: Part One | TheLitCritGuy
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November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
NEW WRITING: As I start on the next book I've decided to spend some time exploring the haunted house in horror film. FIrst up, Fulci! (If you have suggestions for films you think would be worth writing about, please do let me know!)
www.patreon.com/posts/144241...
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In my latest newsletter, I talk about the promise of the internet, the horrors of social media, the fear of performance, the desire to live publicly online, and how I'm trying to reconcile all of these contradicting realities
Living in Public and Other Modern Agonies
On growing up online and being an adult in an age of horrors.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
In my latest newsletter, I talk about the promise of the internet, the horrors of social media, the fear of performance, the desire to live publicly online, and how I'm trying to reconcile all of these contradicting realities
NEW WRITING: As I start on the next book I've decided to spend some time exploring the haunted house in horror film. FIrst up, Fulci! (If you have suggestions for films you think would be worth writing about, please do let me know!)
www.patreon.com/posts/144241...
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Haunted House on Film: Part One | TheLitCritGuy
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November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
NEW WRITING: As I start on the next book I've decided to spend some time exploring the haunted house in horror film. FIrst up, Fulci! (If you have suggestions for films you think would be worth writing about, please do let me know!)
www.patreon.com/posts/144241...
www.patreon.com/posts/144241...
Dante Alighieri, writing around 1320.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Dante Alighieri, writing around 1320.
Day one of the first Ashes test and this remains extremely true.
Look, CLR James taught me that one: the Haitian revolution is a world historical event, two: Moby Dick is the paradigmatic novel of revolutionary democracy and three: test cricket is on the same level as epic theatre and should be treated as such.
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Day one of the first Ashes test and this remains extremely true.
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Beyond a Boundary made me fall in love with cricket.
CLR James writing about the game in conjunction with great society and politics reminded of some of the great baseball writing that does the same.
CLR James writing about the game in conjunction with great society and politics reminded of some of the great baseball writing that does the same.
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Beyond a Boundary made me fall in love with cricket.
CLR James writing about the game in conjunction with great society and politics reminded of some of the great baseball writing that does the same.
CLR James writing about the game in conjunction with great society and politics reminded of some of the great baseball writing that does the same.
Given that the Ashes are starting time to share what's genuinely my favorite moment in sports history.
youtu.be/DfTwIX8eeH4?...
youtu.be/DfTwIX8eeH4?...
Stokes & Leach Headingley 2019 Partnership in FULL
YouTube video by England & Wales Cricket Board
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November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Given that the Ashes are starting time to share what's genuinely my favorite moment in sports history.
youtu.be/DfTwIX8eeH4?...
youtu.be/DfTwIX8eeH4?...
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Twice this year I've had the experience of watching a movie and realizing I'm watching one of the best films ever made.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Twice this year I've had the experience of watching a movie and realizing I'm watching one of the best films ever made.
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I spent the last week listening to @horrorvanguard.bsky.social's 26-hour Amityville film series episode and now I have no idea what I should do with my life. Everything else that isn't a 26-hour discussion about Amityville Toilet feels lesser by comparison 😔
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I spent the last week listening to @horrorvanguard.bsky.social's 26-hour Amityville film series episode and now I have no idea what I should do with my life. Everything else that isn't a 26-hour discussion about Amityville Toilet feels lesser by comparison 😔
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Returning to @rosegardenofeyes.bsky.social's incredible account of watching LOGISTICS. A wonderful piece of writing.
I Watched An 857-Hour Movie To Encounter Capitalism’s Extremes
Logistics tracks, in reverse chronological order, the journey of a pedometer from a shop in Sweden to a factory in China.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Returning to @rosegardenofeyes.bsky.social's incredible account of watching LOGISTICS. A wonderful piece of writing.
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"Yes, it ended one way – yet it could have been otherwise and the implication is, as true as this was for that time and that place, it remains equally true for us today." thehaunt.blog/2025/11/10/t...
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"Yes, it ended one way – yet it could have been otherwise and the implication is, as true as this was for that time and that place, it remains equally true for us today." thehaunt.blog/2025/11/10/t...
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This Aminityville: The Podcast episode is, indeed, a cursed object.
Which raises the question: When we encounter a cursed object, what must we do? How do we confront the curse?
It’s gotta be together, man, there’s no other way.
Sixteen hours down. Nine hours to go.
Which raises the question: When we encounter a cursed object, what must we do? How do we confront the curse?
It’s gotta be together, man, there’s no other way.
Sixteen hours down. Nine hours to go.
I’m just now starting the Horror Vanguard Amityville episode(s).
I will listen to every second of this episode at 1x speed. How long will this consume my stereo? Stay tuned to find out.
I will listen to every second of this episode at 1x speed. How long will this consume my stereo? Stay tuned to find out.
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This Aminityville: The Podcast episode is, indeed, a cursed object.
Which raises the question: When we encounter a cursed object, what must we do? How do we confront the curse?
It’s gotta be together, man, there’s no other way.
Sixteen hours down. Nine hours to go.
Which raises the question: When we encounter a cursed object, what must we do? How do we confront the curse?
It’s gotta be together, man, there’s no other way.
Sixteen hours down. Nine hours to go.
