Jack Graham

New essay. On Protestantism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, and their relation to capitalism. New essay. On Protestantism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, and their relation to capitalism. The religious world is but the reflex of the real world. And for a society based upon the production of commodities, in which

The religious world is but the reflex of the real world. And for a society based upon the production of commodities, in which the producers in general enter into social relations with one another by treating their products as commodities and values, whereby they reduce their individual private labou

The Cybermen, The Borg, Capitalism, Collectivism, and the Gothic The literature of terror is born precisely out of the terror of a split society and out of the desire to heal it. - Franco Moretti 0. Introduction People often compare the Borg, the cyborg gestalt from the Star Trek franchise, to Docto

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons

An Examination of a Classic Statement of Reactionary Thought (I am republishing an edited and slightly expanded version of this essay here, since it came up in the most recent IDSG bonus episode. This essay was originally written in 2018, and I have not troubled to update references, so the reader w

Final part of a consideration of John Carpenter’s In The Mouth of Madness (1994). The ideas in this essay were partly developed in conversation with Elliot Chapman and George Daniel Lea. In The Mouth of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft, Alan Moore’s Providence, metafiction, the ‘fourth wall’, China Miéville’

Part 3 of a consideration of John Carpenter’s In The Mouth of Madness (1994). No more prologues. This installment gets down to business. Part 3 of a consideration of John Carpenter’s In The Mouth of Madness (1994). The ideas in this essay were partly developed in conversation with George Daniel Lea

An essay by Leon Trotsky from 1934 on the differences, similarities, and relations between 'Bonapartism' and fascism, with reference to events in France. I think this is a very important essay for our current moment. I present it here, in its entirety. I have - perhaps presumptuously - added my own

This was written some years ago. It remains depressingly relevant. It is now clear to a great many people that what happened to the Native Americans as a result of the institution and independence of the United States of America was a scandal, a holocaust and a tragedy. The idea is so commonplace it

On Possession, Property, and Haunting; on Colonialism, Alienation, and Commodity Fetishism Part 3 of a Gothic Marxist Consideration of Horror as Capitalist Cultural Production Possession is one of the key concepts in modern Horror, though Horror shares it with other genres. The genre of Horror is ge

“This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine” - The Tempest Adaptation, Culture, and Production Dracula, the novel, and Frankenstein, the novel, have one thing in common: they’re unfilmable. The books are unfilmable for different reasons. It boils down to this: Dracula is too bad to film, and Frankens