Michael Uhall

THE LEFT HAND OF ALL CREATION: HOW TO REPURPOSE Whole WORLDS PT.1 // Michael Uhall This is the first part of a 3-part series The Left Hand of All Creation: How To Repurpose Whole Worlds by Michael Uhall. “The world is an asymmetrical place full of asymmetrical beings.” – Fra…

Part 1 of a series on conceptual engineering and pragmatism ("The left hand of all creation: how to repurpose whole worlds") is up at Diffractions Collective. Part 1 engages with C. S. Peirce, OOO (critically), and Winnicott on object use and destruction: diffractionscollective.com/2025/10/29/t....

There is no final victory or defeat. There is only a new phase of the battle.

"Lovecraft in Mexico," along with my translation of Guillermo Samperio's "Borges, Escher, Lovecraft," is now available from Hippocampus Press's specialist journal *Lovecraft Annual: New Scholarship on H. P. Lovecraft* (19:1, August 2025): www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/lov...

On Screen: Geopolitics and Marriage in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981) — The Vault of Culture In this “On Screen” entry, Michael Uhall argues that Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981) is a film about much more than its obvious subject—divorce. Uhall explores the film’s interest in setting th...

"If you want a picture of this ghastly future, imagine enforcing perfect correspondence between the demesne of geopolitics and the psychic heatmap of human attachments": www.vaultofculture.com/vault/onscre...

YouTube video by klavss76 Paris, Texas - No Safety Zone

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‪"It doesn't move because he has fastened it in place until he finds out why it doesn't move."

Very nice explanation of how these tariff policies hurt American businesses, consumers, and taxpayers, lensed through the microcosm of the games industry: www.catalystgamelabs.com/news/tariffs...

"For sublime deeds like the foundation of a city or the fabrication of a golem, one draws a circle, or better yet walks in a circle as in a children's dance, combining rhythmic vowels and consonants that correspond to the interior forces of creation as to the differentiated parts of an organism."

Merpeople | Reaktion Books People have been fascinated by merpeople since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer’s Odyssey to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and the film Splash (1984), myths, stories and legends ...

"In an odd twist, a South African tabloid magazine used the *Pirates of the Caribbean* mermaid props for a 2014 photograph which alleged that the president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, had used witchcraft during the apartheid era to defeat his opponents" (244): reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/merpeople

"The book is extraordinarily learned, and though we confess we never heard of most of the authorities he quotes, we suppose they are all right": www.nature.com/articles/122...

Agree. This is why it's important to construct invisible colleges and pseudo-monastic redoubts to survive what's coming and to preserve/transmit valuable knowledge (including capacities for thinking/thought). Every author is a potential Leibowitz; every reader is a prospective anchorite/compatriot.

Really glad we got to publish this at ARB. @noirmaterialism.bsky.social does a great job using the book & film to open up the culturally-telling angles of something that might look like cheap shock horror at first glance.

Nightmare Green: Cannibal Holocaust as Theory-Fiction Michael Uhall Nathan Wardinski’s Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust (2024) is a stellar example of a book that systematically thinks through a complex and controversial media object, namely, the Italian…

Nightmare Green: @noirmaterialism.bsky.social uses Nathan Wardinski's DISSECTING CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (Rowman & Littlefield) to think about horror, abjection, and Deodato's infamous film as theory-fiction
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Remember to check our latest essay written by the great @noirmaterialism.bsky.social on "Glamorama", by Bret Easton Ellis, featuring illustrations by our very own @cerulea_d.lux and @uy_que_paila 👜👒 (both of them in Instagram)

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We ran a great piece by @noirmaterialism.bsky.social on Interstellar, as part of Astronoetic Cinema series, at @vaultofculture.bsky.social : www.vaultofculture.com/vault/astron...

Now under contract w/ Routledge for my second book (Theory of the Alien), on the relatively recent emergence of outer space as an economic, political, and warfighting domain, as well as delineating ways our strategic imagination is informed by things “outside” the traditional scope of the political.

The Agora and the Archipelago // Michael UHALL 1: AGORA For some time now, the AGORA has served as the implicit structural model for every legitimate democratic politics. Historically, the AGORA named the public space in which Greek citizens co…

Just in time for the election, "The agora and the archipelago" is now available from Diffractions Collective: "Where the AGORA falters, ARCHIPELAGO enables the projection of political force [...]": diffractionscollective.com/2024/10/17/t...

Thank you! This means a great to me. If you feel like it, please consider writing a short review on Amazon, Goodreads, etc. Even for academic writing, every little bit helps. =)

The Frost Crabs of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche A blog maintained by and about Forrest Aguirre and his fiction

Very nice review from Forrest Aguirre: "A new sun-god of a sort emerges, just as a molting crab emerges from itself. But this molting, this transformation, this growth is something much deeper than the mere physical shedding of an old form...": forrestaguirre.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-...

"Wars of the Lord: here's the DRILL by Scott R. Jones" (@PimpMyShoggoth), out in 3:AM Magazine now: "He will turn you into spiritual engine parts and make use of them. He will channel and redirect the very essence of your soft machine": www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-wars...

"Spirals of reason: the inhuman vitalism of Junji Ito's Uzumaki" is out now in Gothic Nature: "[Spirals] are revealed to be lurking at the very heart of nature, or perhaps even of time itself, like alien vehicles for the eternal recurrence of the strange": gothicnaturejournal.com/spirals-of-r...

Argh, you should've asked first! I just received coupons to give out. But thank you! I'm touched.

Notice from Durham Law School re: colloquium chaired with philosopher Steve Fuller: tinyurl.com/updf659e. The focus of the colloquium was Michael Bohlander's book Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights: brill.com/display/titl....

A reading of "How to Construct a Gun from Your Own Flesh", the short story by Michael Uhall, as it appears in Vastarien, vol. 1, issue 1, Spring 2018 How to Construct a Gun from Your Own Flesh Michael Uhall

Someone performed a reading of my 2018 (very) short story "How to Construct a Gun from Your Own Flesh" (originally published in Vastarien 1:1): youtu.be/cfSouBYNPXg?...

Noir Materialism: Freedom and Obligation in Political Ecology This book reengineers the conceptual relationship between nature and politics by crafting the terms of a new philosophy of nature and exploring its consequences for political thought. These conseq...

Finalized cover of my first book, Noir Materialism: Freedom and Obligation in Political Ecology, which is available from Rowman & Littlefield: rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...

New Vaporwave Essay by @noirmaterialism.bsky.social ✍️

"The GIF is the vaporwave artifact par excellence – especially now, in its long afterlife, where image and spring break forever come together as one"

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Publisher listing is up now. rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...

Finalized cover.

Essay of mine on Kenji Siratori is up now at
3 AM magazine: "Perhaps he generates his writing somehow, deep inside his grimdark otaku lab, feeding the living scraps of natural language into some kind of linguistic degloving machine": www.3ammagazine.com/3am/cybergot...