joshasoflate

This is amazing work. I think one of the coolest most accessible ways for men to learn about feminism and misogyny is to study horror films and critiques/analyses of them.

It strikes me the Hereditary might be a fantastic example of the Dysfunctional Mother. I would love to hear your thoughts on the film!!

You could, I think, read AI (alongside the development of scifi since 1945) as the inevitable result of the atomic bomb.

This is especially relevant to the discourse about war here. Nuclear weapons made large scale, protracted ground campaigns essentially irrelevant. First, they’re role as ‘deterrents,’ second; if you are going to lose a million men in on year of fighting modern warfare, why not lose a million in a minute instead and have the war done with, at a fraction of the price and logistics?

There thus comes a need for warfare without cost (at least in terms of life). If warfare can become the domain of AI, nuclear weapons in turn become irrelevant. Opposing forces can fight a completely autonomous mechanized conflict; whoever is the last machine standing is able to present such a threat to the other country’s economy/populace that their enemy would have to concede. Economically then, AI presents a very real, very genuine possibility of forever war, and as a direct consequence of the development of nuclear warfare!

This is great. Horror has always been the realm of the in-between; providing lush opportunities to examine intersections, confusions, and liminalities. The comic book aspect of Blade then takes it to such an exaggerated level that these intersections become deeply woven into and central to the story.

There’s an aspect of camp here I really love; solemn politics viewed through the lens of a vampire superhero story. Really interesting stuff.