Joshua Gooch
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Joshua Gooch
@joshuagooch.bsky.social
Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film (U Minnesota Press, 2025) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917975/capitalism-hates-you/

Once interviewed Wesley Willis

he, him

views my own
I think that’s right. The ability of liberalism to bridge parties ideologically in the US is on life support, at best.

Really great to be alive in one of
Gramsci’s time of monsters
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
At this point, I doubt they have much interest in learning
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I’m thinking prehensile tail
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Fucking hell. What a piece of work.

Shelley’s Frankenstein is about how life and social relationships are inseparable, which makes life itself political.

Del Toro’s is an existential tale about getting over your bad dad. Nope!
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
He made the social antagonisms in the De Lacey story into a natural antagonism! I am infuriated but unsurprised given the other choices
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Some strange choices. Everything about the lab and business partnership feels more like meta fictional commentary on Hollywood than anything else
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Changes Victor’s parents and family life so that Victor is a bad father because his father was a bad father. Shelley is more complex
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
It’s also an attack on our relations with ourselves and our ability to be curious!
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If anyone wants a reference, look at pages five and six of Jane Mayer’s 2009 book The Dark Side. I think it’s there
November 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM