Happy to say that my article "‘You’ve got to thank toxic masculinity:’ Joe Rogan, crisis celebrity and cultural remasculinisation" was just published online in @CSJcelebstudies.
Give it a read at the link below.
tandfonline.com/eprint/EEAXW…
Very happy to have a short piece on the influence of 300 (2006) on Late Fascist aesthetics and politics in this excellent @MC_IMR theme week organised by @FlicksonMcGee
Hilarious that the Queer Eye cast are so desensitised to all the poverty they encounter so they have to keep finding more terrible stories so the new guy is just getting a shotgun blast of human misery to the chest and weeping while they other four stare on dead eyed
Now, the superstructure seems to overwhelm the base. The mode of production stays the same but the Right decides what cultural factors sit above an unchanged economic base. Musk and Zuck pivot with them in order to maintain their profits.
Absolute pleasure to be on this podcast to speak about crisis-masculinity, the right wing project of remasculinisation and how it is reinforced by certain masculinist influences. Give it a listen!
Today at @histmat I'll be speaking on the panel Fascism and Anti-Fascism on Screen in the Marxism and Culture stream.
4.30pm in SOAS: Brunai Gallery b202.
Be there r be square
Before the West finally dies, it will “become every day more snarling, more openly ferocious, more shameless, more summarily barbarous” and it will “disgrace itself completely, on all fronts” (Césaire).
every child you see with mangled legs being hopelessly carried, every person you see lit on fire, all the dust covered faces, they were a whole universe. to themselves and everybody they knew. lives as complex, joyful and difficult as yours. it kills me. i’ll never get numb to it