Happy to say that my article "‘You’ve got to thank toxic masculinity:’ Joe Rogan, crisis celebrity and cultural remasculinisation" was just published online in @CSJcelebstudies. Give it a read at the link below. https://t.co/tWddzjJrLl

Was a pleasure to speak at @histmat 2025 on late fascism and generative AI propaganda.

Very happy to have a short piece on the influence of 300 (2006) on Late Fascist aesthetics and politics in this excellent @MC_IMR theme week organised by @FlicksonMcGee

Introducing this excellent talk today! If you're in UCD drop in

Vampires and capitalism, remakes and gimmicks: @OdinOSullivan reviews Robert Eggers' update to a classic of the horror genre, Nosferatu. https://t.co/DOuooTcxLx

Hilarious that the Queer Eye cast are so desensitised to all the poverty they encounter so they have to keep finding more terrible stories so the new guy is just getting a shotgun blast of human misery to the chest and weeping while they other four stare on dead eyed

Now, the superstructure seems to overwhelm the base. The mode of production stays the same but the Right decides what cultural factors sit above an unchanged economic base. Musk and Zuck pivot with them in order to maintain their profits.

Pretty good but not a patch on Herzog's or Murnau's

Now seated:

Walter Benjamin would HATE how you guys are using “aura.”

Podcast: The ‘crisis of masculinity’ and the far right - with @OdinOSullivan https://t.co/Xeh9wiURry

Absolute pleasure to be on this podcast to speak about crisis-masculinity, the right wing project of remasculinisation and how it is reinforced by certain masculinist influences. Give it a listen!

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"Profiteering. That's what no one is talking about here... There doesn't have to be a cost of living crisis. In fact for some, it's a cost of living Bonanza". - @RBoydBarrett on #RTÉUpfront #AnotherIrelandIsPossible

Today at @histmat I'll be speaking on the panel Fascism and Anti-Fascism on Screen in the Marxism and Culture stream. 4.30pm in SOAS: Brunai Gallery b202. Be there r be square

On Moore St today 💯

Looking forward to presenting at HM alongside these other great papers!

Before the West finally dies, it will “become every day more snarling, more openly ferocious, more shameless, more summarily barbarous” and it will “disgrace itself completely, on all fronts” (Césaire).

every child you see with mangled legs being hopelessly carried, every person you see lit on fire, all the dust covered faces, they were a whole universe. to themselves and everybody they knew. lives as complex, joyful and difficult as yours. it kills me. i’ll never get numb to it