Michael Eden
@michaeledenart.bsky.social
Artist and researcher. Academic Lecturer at University of Arts London. PhD from Middlesex University.
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My PhD thesis is cited in Wyndham Lewis: Modernism and the New Radical Right
by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!
by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My PhD thesis is cited in Wyndham Lewis: Modernism and the New Radical Right
by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!
by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!
Some of today’s drawings, pareidolia/observations from the Ashridge woods.
July 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Some of today’s drawings, pareidolia/observations from the Ashridge woods.
Some more images from MAMO conference @themamoconf.bsky.social I’m with esteemed company here, Professor Sarah Salih (KCL), Dr Josh Davies (KCL), and the wonderful Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social (Oxford). Such a rich experience for me and lots of new friends made 😊
June 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Some more images from MAMO conference @themamoconf.bsky.social I’m with esteemed company here, Professor Sarah Salih (KCL), Dr Josh Davies (KCL), and the wonderful Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social (Oxford). Such a rich experience for me and lots of new friends made 😊
1/3: Delivering the keynote @themamoconf.bsky.social 2025 has been a wonderful (if daunting) highlight of my research activity, the painting below was made as a response to the invitation, it and the plenary were attempts to understand the women of the poem as more temporally complex figures...
June 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
1/3: Delivering the keynote @themamoconf.bsky.social 2025 has been a wonderful (if daunting) highlight of my research activity, the painting below was made as a response to the invitation, it and the plenary were attempts to understand the women of the poem as more temporally complex figures...
My article for Trebuchet Magazine “Drawing the Unseen: Landscape as Ideological Frame and Perceptual Rupture” can be read here: www.trebuchet-magazine.com/drawing-the-...
June 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My article for Trebuchet Magazine “Drawing the Unseen: Landscape as Ideological Frame and Perceptual Rupture” can be read here: www.trebuchet-magazine.com/drawing-the-...
My article Alien: Romulus and the Problematic Saviour is published in the iconic Foundation Journal, 150, 54.1 (spring 2025). This continues my interest in the potent, and influential, aesthetics of the Alien franchise.
March 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My article Alien: Romulus and the Problematic Saviour is published in the iconic Foundation Journal, 150, 54.1 (spring 2025). This continues my interest in the potent, and influential, aesthetics of the Alien franchise.
1/2: I had a wonderful time with @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social discussing Sir Gawain's contemporary relevance and my artistic responses to the poem, which included the painting below 'Gawain Between Two Deaths' (2025), created for the event.
February 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
1/2: I had a wonderful time with @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social discussing Sir Gawain's contemporary relevance and my artistic responses to the poem, which included the painting below 'Gawain Between Two Deaths' (2025), created for the event.
Green Knight's Head (Point of no Return), oil on board.
February 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Green Knight's Head (Point of no Return), oil on board.
In this paper, I explore what Lisa Tickner calls a ‘dissentient position’ in Modernism that assumes dehumanisation as a value of a new and brutal subjectivity and places the machine as a totemic deity. My understanding of this draws from the aesthetic language of Vorticism.
January 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In this paper, I explore what Lisa Tickner calls a ‘dissentient position’ in Modernism that assumes dehumanisation as a value of a new and brutal subjectivity and places the machine as a totemic deity. My understanding of this draws from the aesthetic language of Vorticism.
My article: The Armoured Self, Un-becoming the Subject: Reading Julia Ducournau’s Titane (2021) Via Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism, is published in Modernist Cultures, Volume 19 Issue 2-3, Page 208-235, ISSN 2041-1022 www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
January 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
My article: The Armoured Self, Un-becoming the Subject: Reading Julia Ducournau’s Titane (2021) Via Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism, is published in Modernist Cultures, Volume 19 Issue 2-3, Page 208-235, ISSN 2041-1022 www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
(Anyone speak Russian) I'm cited here in a book called 'Post-Postmodernism: How Social and Cultural Theory Explain Our Time' (2020). If anyone speaks Russian I'd love to know if I'm being given a kicking or agreed with? Either way its a citation :)
books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...
books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...
December 31, 2024 at 8:09 PM
(Anyone speak Russian) I'm cited here in a book called 'Post-Postmodernism: How Social and Cultural Theory Explain Our Time' (2020). If anyone speaks Russian I'd love to know if I'm being given a kicking or agreed with? Either way its a citation :)
books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...
books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...
I’ve been called a fat one of these by my son (no muscles just alopecia)
December 6, 2024 at 10:18 PM
I’ve been called a fat one of these by my son (no muscles just alopecia)
You can't.
You just become a powerful mechanism.
You just become a powerful mechanism.
December 6, 2024 at 9:17 PM
You can't.
You just become a powerful mechanism.
You just become a powerful mechanism.
My attempt to paint what Lewis wanted as tragedy rather than triumph, his madness was to think you can make dehumanization work for you.
December 6, 2024 at 9:09 PM
My attempt to paint what Lewis wanted as tragedy rather than triumph, his madness was to think you can make dehumanization work for you.
My portrait of Lewis 'Sir Percy The Knight of Human Resources' and 'Lady with Photocopier'. Seamus Perry's article isn't a bad contextualization for these (now that's some narcissism Lewis would have appreciated!) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
December 6, 2024 at 8:58 PM
My portrait of Lewis 'Sir Percy The Knight of Human Resources' and 'Lady with Photocopier'. Seamus Perry's article isn't a bad contextualization for these (now that's some narcissism Lewis would have appreciated!) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
In the great Art Wars I am, in the end, a 'flux' man, with Heraclitus and Bergson all the way! Lewis, a tempting misanthropic vampire is of course 'Repelled by Bergsonian flux', to understand his thought really recalls Gandalf refusing to touch the one ring,
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
December 6, 2024 at 8:53 PM
In the great Art Wars I am, in the end, a 'flux' man, with Heraclitus and Bergson all the way! Lewis, a tempting misanthropic vampire is of course 'Repelled by Bergsonian flux', to understand his thought really recalls Gandalf refusing to touch the one ring,
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
This might be seen as a sort of radical social mobility method: rather than trying to climb in the culture, identify your key characteristics and core beliefs, then communicate those in various media forcefully to upend the society around yourself. He was in the end a Tyro and he knew it of course
December 6, 2024 at 8:37 PM
This might be seen as a sort of radical social mobility method: rather than trying to climb in the culture, identify your key characteristics and core beliefs, then communicate those in various media forcefully to upend the society around yourself. He was in the end a Tyro and he knew it of course
Green Knight’s head (die cast) (2024).
Oil on board
Oil on board
December 2, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Green Knight’s head (die cast) (2024).
Oil on board
Oil on board
The conference Tradition and Innovation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, at Université de Lorraine (Nancy) was brilliant, Nancy is beautiful and the organisers were welcoming and riveting!
#agrégation #medievalsky
#agrégation #medievalsky
November 25, 2024 at 9:31 PM
The conference Tradition and Innovation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, at Université de Lorraine (Nancy) was brilliant, Nancy is beautiful and the organisers were welcoming and riveting!
#agrégation #medievalsky
#agrégation #medievalsky
Head of Green Knight (no point of view) (2024)
Oil on board.
Oil on board.
November 18, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Head of Green Knight (no point of view) (2024)
Oil on board.
Oil on board.