Michael Uhall
@grayskythinking.bsky.social
Ends and exits. Nature and politics, intellectual history, psychogeography, weird fiction. Noir Materialism (2024) out now: https://twtr.to/nuKyV. https://www.michaeluhall.com/
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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.
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....
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…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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....
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There is no final victory or defeat. There is only a new phase of the battle.
And Nixon still hopes for a fight??
October 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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...
September 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"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...
"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...
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...
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August 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
"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...
"It doesn't move because he has fastened it in place until he finds out why it doesn't move."
June 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
"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...
Tariffs: Rolling Against American Game Publishers
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April 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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."
April 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
"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."
"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
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 ...
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January 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"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...
Barnacles in Nature and in Myth - Nature
Nature - Barnacles in Nature and in Myth
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January 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"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...
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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: @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
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/06/n...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/06/n...
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…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
December 10, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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.
Reposted by Michael Uhall
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
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/06/n...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/06/n...
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…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
December 6, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/06/n...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/06/n...
Reposted by Michael Uhall
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)
🔗 www.utopiadistrict.com/articles/vap...
🔗 www.utopiadistrict.com/articles/vap...
December 2, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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)
🔗 www.utopiadistrict.com/articles/vap...
🔗 www.utopiadistrict.com/articles/vap...
Reposted by Michael Uhall
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...
December 6, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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.
October 21, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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.
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...
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…
diffractionscollective.com
October 17, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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...
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-...
The Frost Crabs of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A blog maintained by and about Forrest Aguirre and his fiction
forrestaguirre.blogspot.com
June 14, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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...
June 11, 2024 at 4:04 PM
"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...
June 6, 2024 at 1:58 PM
"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...
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....
Professor Bohlander’s book on Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law discussed at international colloquium - Durham University
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May 28, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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....
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?...
How to Construct a Gun from Your Own Flesh Michael Uhall
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
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May 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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?...
Finalized cover of my first book, Noir Materialism: Freedom and Obligation in Political Ecology, which is available from Rowman & Littlefield: rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
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...
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May 1, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Finalized cover of my first book, Noir Materialism: Freedom and Obligation in Political Ecology, which is available from Rowman & Littlefield: rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
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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"
🔗 www.utopiadistrict.com/articles/vap...
"The GIF is the vaporwave artifact par excellence – especially now, in its long afterlife, where image and spring break forever come together as one"
🔗 www.utopiadistrict.com/articles/vap...
February 5, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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"
🔗 www.utopiadistrict.com/articles/vap...
"The GIF is the vaporwave artifact par excellence – especially now, in its long afterlife, where image and spring break forever come together as one"
🔗 www.utopiadistrict.com/articles/vap...
Publisher listing is up now. rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
February 3, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Publisher listing is up now. rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...