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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Sep 5

My blog post on Gary Indiana's trilogy of crime novels, Resentment, Three Month Fever and Depraved Indifference #booksky

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Gary Indiana's Inhuman Comedy

The Crime TrilogyGary, Indiana It was only just before rereading Resentment (1997), the first of Gary Indiana’s crime trilogy, that I learned the author had passed from lung cancer last October, aged ...

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Sep 22

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BLUE PRINTS | Elise | Substack

Writing the self on analogue film – letters on longing, photography & solitude. Click to read BLUE PRINTS, by Elise, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Sep 8

My blog post on Georges Bataille's writings on prehistoric art

#georgesbataille #caveart #lascaux #philosophy #art #arthistory

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Georges Bataille, Lascaux, and the Becoming-animal of Art

" ... there areStill songs to sing beyondMankind"Paul Celan, ThreadsunsArt as violence The Boy’s Own story of the discovery in 1940 of the linked caves at Lascaux in the Vezere valley in France, and t...

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Sep 8

My blog post on Cy Twombly's Ten Days at Iliam sequence of paintings

#cytwombly #arthistory #painting #homer #classics

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Cy Twombly's Iliad

“For those dreamers who considered that force, thanks to progress, could soon be a thing of the past, The Iliad could appear as an historical document; for others, whose powers of recognition are more...

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Sep 8

My blog post on the art of Leon Golub

#leongolub #art #arthistory

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The Fact of Brutality: on Leon Golub's Barbaric Realism

“To represent terrible and questionable things is, in and of itself, an expression of the artist’s instinctive desire for power and glory; he does not fear them.”Nietzsche, The Will to PowerThe post-w...

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Sep 8

A short guide to Spinoza's concept of freedom

#philosophy #PhilSky #spinoza

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Sep 7

My blog post on Charles Laughton's 1955 movie Night of the Hunter, and the 1953 source novel by David Grubb

#movies #moviesky #filmsky #books #booksky

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Night of the Hunter, a Southern Gothic Grotesquerie

Last Summer Penguin launched their Modern Classics Crime and Espionage series, and there are now twenty-nine titles in the collection. The livery features the same green as that of their Penguin Crim...

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Sep 7

My blog post on Narcisa Ibanez Serrador's cult 1976 horror Who Can Kill a Child #movies #moviesky #filmsky #horror

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Sep 7

My blog post on Polanski's Rosemary's Baby

#movies #moviesky #filmsky #horror

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Rosemary’s Baby: the World as Coven

Rosemarys’ Baby (1968), the first of Polanski’s ‘trilogy of evil’ that continued with Macbeth (1971), and Chinatown (1975) is, despite its comedy, one of the most misanthropic films ever made. Ambitio...

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Sep 6

My blog post on Ivan Goncharov's 1859 novel Oblomov
#booksky

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Oblomov

"Energy is Eternal Delight" William BlakeIOblomov, the eponymous anti-hero of Ivan Goncharov’s 1859 satirical novel, is the half-living embodiment of inertia. He's widely considered...

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Sep 5

My blog post on Gary Indiana's trilogy of crime novels, Resentment, Three Month Fever and Depraved Indifference #booksky

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Gary Indiana's Inhuman Comedy

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Jul 31

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‘Learn’d spew’: Ally Louks, opportunistic conformism, and the death of English studies

"She is meere nothing of herselfe, neither eats, nor drinks, nor goes, nor spits, but by Imitation ... she speakes just what her bookes or last companie said unto her, without varying one whit, and ve...

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · May 3

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The Trans Delusion: a Philosophical Nail in its Coffin

The arguments in philosopher Thomas Nagel’s seminal 1974 essay, What is it Like to be Bat? can help us answer the question of whether a human born with XY chromosomes and a male body can be, can becom...

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csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Apr 5

'Activist journalism' is an oxymoron, as is 'trans-inclusionary feminist'. Rather, to insist on the mantra 'trans women are women' is to facilitate the proundest misogyny and give succour to the most violent manifestation of 'the patriarchy' except porn - which I suspect you're also pro.

csmilton.bsky.social @csmilton.bsky.social · Mar 19

A blog post on Ally Louks, class privilege and the malaise of English Literature studies in the UK:

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‘Learn’d spew’: Ally Louks, opportunistic conformism, and the death of English studies

When Ally Louks created a Twitter storm after announcing on X that she’d passed her PhD with her thesis Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose, it gave outsiders a ra...