Gothic Marxism: The Horror Genre and the Monsters of Neoliberalism
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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TheLitCritGuy is a precariously employed, struggling academic and the internet’s foremost literary critic, bringing literary theory and criticism to the widest possible audience. He writes for a variety of online platforms about things as diverse as theory, philosophy, gothic and horror literature and film, the internet, politics and pop-culture. In his academic research he writes about gothic literature, theology, continental philosophy of religion and monsters and will be submitting his PhD in Sept 2017. He lives somewhere in the north of England, with his beautiful wife and their many books.
Jon sits down with Brett to discuss Gothic Marxism.
Topics Include: Gothic literature, Karl Marx, Neoliberalism as a mode and style of vacuous politics, Nihilism, Nostalgia, Postmodernism, Centrism, Films as Cultural Dreams, Zombies, Vampires, and much, much more!
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| 1:13.3 | today we have on John aka the lit crit guy to talk about Gothic Marxism now |
| 1:19.5 | this is a topic that when I first was in contact with John I was not even quite |
| 1:23.9 | aware of what what the term meant and I had to do a lot of a lot of studying to |
| 1:27.8 | kind of figure out what it was but once I started diving into this issue I |
| 1:30.7 | found it absolutely fascinating and I think it really gives us a unique |
| 1:34.6 | perspective on what we're going through now and in the late capitalist neoliberal |
| 1:38.1 | period I and I'm also a huge fan of the horror genre and the Gothic genre as |
| 1:43.0 | well so it fits quite nicely into my personal interests so John I want you go |
| 1:47.5 | ahead and introduce yourself and say a little bit about your background for |
| 1:49.8 | people that don't know who you are |
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