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Sam Solnick
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Lecturer in Literature @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Poetry | Environmental Humanities | Controlled Panic
New book TERROR FIRMA on horror + ecology for Fitzcarraldo
although THIS might actually be an even better appropriation of Boots than 28 Years Later www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVoi...
BOOTS - poem by Rudyard Kipling, but synthwave & with giant cartoon monsters
YouTube video by Ruairi Robinson
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June 22, 2025 at 6:09 AM
TBH using Kipling in a film about a small, rage-fuelled island caught up myths of militarism is a bit of a tonic. Because every time if I hear "the nation's favourite poem" is bloody "IF" I die a little inside. 2
June 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
As it happens am teaching Larissa Sansour's 2012 film Nation Estate today -- which imagines Gaza as a skyscraper Ballardian nightmare -- so it's going to be interesting to see the students discuss how this has gone from SF-dystopia to policy plan in a decade larissasansour.com/Nation-Estat...
Nation Estate (2012) — Larissa Sansour
The Nation Estate project consists of a 9-minute sci-fi short film and a photo series offering a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in...
larissasansour.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
It made me want to split your skull with my proboscis and suck your delicious brains out
February 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM