Tommy Lynch

I've watch The Thing and Frankenstein in the past week and I'm not sure which has the most grisly canine death.

At a time when we see rising antisemitism and the ironic weaponisation of accusations of antisemitism by racists, it's worth listening to people who are adept at understanding both dynamics and the role that Holocaust memorialisation plays in them.

‘Frankenstein’ Star Christoph Waltz on Guillermo del Toro’s Practical Filmmaking: “CGI is For Losers” The ‘Frankenstein’ press conference at the Venice Film Festival found Waltz speaking only six words, leaving Guillermo del Toro and stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth and more to pick up the sl...

'later, he was asked how he remains hopeful in today’s monstrous times. “I don’t,” he said. And that was that.'

I'm sure that there are similar things out there, but everything I've seen seems unnecessarily complicated.

The salad onions make the dish fresher, but without them it only takes three store cupboard ingredients. My house is never without these three ingredients.

For the past couple of years, I've been making a very simple noodle dish when I'm feeling lazy, tired, depressed, etc. It's vegan, takes less than fifteen minutes, has four ingredients and goes well with cold beer or an off-dry white. It is probably the thing I'm most proud of.

Lady Parts and Baby Parts: What Is a Fetus? A common-sense view of mammalian pregnancy treats the fetus as (a) an organism and (b) co-extensive with the approximately baby-shaped entity developing in the uterus. In this paper, I draw on metabo...

More than five years in the making, my paper about the metaphysics of pregnancy is out today, open-access in PPR 🧵1/7

doi.org/10.1111/phpr...

The Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy and the Emergence of Alternatives - LSE Law School Events This talk examines the limits of liberalism for handling urgent contemporary problems, among them the climate emergency and the conquest of states by concentrated capital. Acknowledging that the Right...

Very excited to welcome you all at @lselaw.bsky.social on Tuesday 11 November 6-7.30pm for a discussion with the always inspiring *Wendy Brown* on

'The Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy and the Emergence of Alternatives':

lselaw.events/event/the-ex...

Come along! No registration needed. MAR 2.04.

In light of, er, Events and Such Things as illustrated below, I do think the far right's approach to interpreting fantasy narrative is worth reflecting on. Check out the podcast for Aaron and I doing that with a special focus on 40k.

Apocalypse without Kingdom - Journal #97 …

Always a good to read Anders, but today might be a better day than most.

www.e-flux.com/journal/97/2...

Holy shit

I think I also might be becoming an anti-'civilisation' person. I can't think of a time when someone was defending civilisation or worrying about its collapse where I was on board.

It's like when people say that climate change isn't the end of the world. I'm never sure what 'world' means in these instances. I don't think every use of 'world' has to come with a full-fledged ontology, but its ambiguity often does the same kind of work 'civilisation' is doing here.

This summary of a recent Gates' pronouncement is really interesting on a number of fronts, not least of which is points like this on. I'm not sure 'the end of civilisation' is synonymous with 'the death of every single person'.

One of the great joys of watching movies from the 80s and 90s is that you then get to go and see what Roger Ebert had to say.

Also available here: web.archive.org/web/20040605...

'It’s a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. They try to stop organized crime (in the form of the smuggling rings run by the Hutts). The Empire has virtually no effect on the daily life of the average, law-abiding citizen.'

The Case for the Empire STAR WARS RETURNS today with its fifth installment, Attack of the Clones. There will be talk of the Force and the Dark Side and the epic morality of

'as emperor, Palpatine is a dictator–but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet.' I've read through this twice convinced that it must be satire, but I think it's actually sincere.

www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1881387...

Thanks!

Key plot point: a solider falls asleep, drops a lit cigarette on a pile of porn and sets off a string of explosions forcing the remnants of humanity to abandon their military base.

It's not unusual for sexual desire to lead to disaster in post-apocalyptic films, but this is a little on the nose.

Trying to pick up the pace on my apocalypse film watching. Tonight's film is Damnation Alley.

'The Third World War left the planet shrouded in a pall of radioactive dust, under skies lurid and angry, in a climate gone insane.’

I was recently looking at similarities between Panic in Year Zero! and The End We Start From. They both feature key moments in which a parent steals from someone to protect their family, but couldn't be further apart in terms of how the scenes strike the audience.

Really enjoyed @everyscififilm.bsky.social's recent episode on Panic in Year Zero! It's a film in which the President declares 'There are no civilians - we are all at war' and our hero says 'when civilisation gets civilised again, I'll rejoin.'

Really looking forward to this talk tomorrow!

I love the scene in Dawn of the Dead where they reveal Francine is pregnant and then cut to her smoking a cigarette. The 70s were a wild time.

'How the hell come we stick these low-life bastards in these big-ass hotels, anyway? Shit, man! This is better than I got!'

Didn't realise that racist cop in the opening of Dawn of the Dead was helping develop UK immigration policies.

Let’s Talk About “6 7” Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse pulls...

Sometimes you read something and every single detail makes you realise that you are now old and culture has passed you by: pitchfork.com/thepitch/let...

Also, maybe that's fine. The onlineness of it seems exhausting.

The only time I've been, I wished there'd been about one more interesting (to me) panel. I know that conferences aren't JUST about the papers, but most AARs I go to something a bit outside of my work and learn something. At EUARE lots of the panels were a kind of TRS that I'm just not into.

That's been my experience. You can effectively use it to stage a conference within a conference if you can get enough people involved. I think the nice thing about the AAR is that you have the established units. That's also a limitation, but it just makes everything a little more organised.

Definitely!