Jon

Jon

@thelitcritguy.bsky.social

writer. phd in gothic literature. writing on horror, utopia, the gothic nightmare of capitalism CAPITALISM A HORROR STORY out now, working on a new book about HOUSES

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Happy Hour at Hippel's
@sanktmaxtci.bsky.social

Materialist theory of exorcism! One Big Frankenstein! Monstrous Social Reproduction! Whitby! @thelitcritguy.bsky.social @sisterdecay.bsky.social and I are bringing Gothic Marxism this Halloween via the @gothamguillotine.bsky.social gothamguillotine.com/2026/10/19/g...

gothamguillotine.comGothic Marxism: A Manifesto on the Dark Way of Being Red by Adam C. Jones & Jon GreenawaySpectres, ghosts, horror and monstrosity are everywhere. These discourses are not simply aesthetic or cultural markers. These are political symptoms, produced by a necrotic and decaying capitalism.

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@wormbuxx.bsky.social

Shameless plug: This week on @tender_subject, we slice into one of the big cultural artifacts of the Tender Subject canon, Peter Greenaway's gorgeous film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover with @TheLitCritGuy. Join us for John Berger, haute cuisine, fashion, Brecht and more!

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Jon
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BILLIONS MUST PRE-ORDER THE NEW @scumbelievable.bsky.social share.google/lCNaNgImM2DR...

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Delighted that @scumbelievable.bsky.social manifested into the HV crypt to talk about politics, transgression in art, body horror and her incredible novel "Black Flame." soundcloud.com/user-3179105...

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Horror Vanguard
@horrorvanguard.bsky.social

Delighted that @scumbelievable.bsky.social manifested into the HV crypt to talk about politics, transgression in art, body horror and her incredible novel "Black Flame." soundcloud.com/user-3179105...

soundcloud.comAn Interview with Gretchen Felker-MartinEerie waves emanate from the Horror Vanguard radio tower as author Gretchen Felker-Martin joins us to discuss all things horror and the body. Support Gretchen on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scu
Jon
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Made it. Read all 64 of the horus Heresy novels but what's most notable about the finale of this three volume novel is the command of perspective and narrative tense. Truly a wild choice to have the final climatic battle and the longest chapter in the book narrated entirely in second person.

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89. Dan Abnett, "The End and the Death Volume Three" We've done it. We made it to an ending and also the beginning of the true grim darkness of the far future.

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@thelitcritguy.bsky.social

While it is easy (and fun!) to be cynical about all of these books I found it deeply impactful just how sincerely this last novel commits to the role of imagination as the thing that marks human beings as being irreducibly utopian creatures.

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Erik Hane
@erikhane.bsky.social

It feels like some of you actually should have Jon on to talk about this lol

Jon@thelitcritguy.bsky.social

Invite me on your podcast because I need to talk about what it's like to read 64 Warhammer novels in six months

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There's something very bold about this - especially given the ways in which the novel as form is invested in a particular idea of both space and temporality but Abnett is willing to experiment with what happens when both of those formal constraints collapse into an eternal present.

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88. Dan Abnett, "The End and the Death Volume Two" I'm so close. I'm so so so close to being done with this series. But this is my favorite sequel to Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeutics.

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Nathan Nun
@nathannun.bsky.social

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare...

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In incredible spooky news, the latest edition of @gothamguillotine.bsky.social is now out, featuring a manifesto for Gothic Marxism written by me and @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social gothamguillotine.com/2026/10/19/g...

gothamguillotine.com"Gothic Marxism: A Manifesto on the Dark Way of Being Red" by Adam C. Jones & Jon GreenawaySpectres, ghosts, horror and monstrosity are everywhere. These discourses are not simply aesthetic or cultural markers. These are political symptoms, produced by a necrotic and decaying capitalism.
Jon
@thelitcritguy.bsky.social

If you want to understand the horus Heresy you absolutely need to know the work of Alfred Tennyson, Emily Dickinson and Amiri Baraka as well as the Rider–Waite Tarot. Dan Abnett who the hell do you think you are.

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87. Dan Abnett, "The End and the Death Volume One" - I'm sorry I wasn't expecting this, a novel in which the climax depends on interpretation of the tarot, library research and the history of poetry. Formally this is so maximalist Abnett is pushing the story into near modernist territory.

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Erik Hane
@erikhane.bsky.social

That MTG essay I wrote for Typebar earlier this year contained the phrase "Fortnite-ification" and the definition is basically the worst thing that culture can possibly do

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...

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Podcasting is Praxis
@praxiscast.bsky.social

🚨 Grimdark Episode Alert 🚨 @garethwatkins.bsky.social joins us to talk about the boltgun-shaped economy of Britain's last remaining Real Business: Games Workshop. Also the youth gets to work at Big Spoons and that's for sale at bargain prices! FREE: www.patreon.com/praxiscast/p...

patreon.comE458 - Wage of Sigmar ft. Gareth Watkins | Podcasting is PraxisBritain is an economic powerhouse bristling with new ideas, and so we're back to "what if the jobcentre gave companies free labour?" again.

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laborkyle
@laborkyle.bsky.social

My very good friends/two of the writers I admire most in the world have finally unleashed the newest addition to the gothic marxism syllabus. Happy early Halloween to those interested in the spectrality of the material

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In incredible spooky news, the latest edition of @gothamguillotine.bsky.social is now out, featuring a manifesto for Gothic Marxism written by me and @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social gothamguillotine.com/2026/10/19/g...

gothamguillotine.com"Gothic Marxism: A Manifesto on the Dark Way of Being Red" by Adam C. Jones & Jon GreenawaySpectres, ghosts, horror and monstrosity are everywhere. These discourses are not simply aesthetic or cultural markers. These are political symptoms, produced by a necrotic and decaying capitalism.

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Also in the new issue of @gothamguillotine.bsky.social you can find this essay with words by me and photography by the Hungarian artist Áron Lődi. gothamguillotine.com/2026/10/19/a...

gothamguillotine.com"All That is Solid Melts into Ghosts: Spectral Production and the Horror of Post-Industrial Capitalism" by Jon Greenaway and Áron LődiFollow the Danube River south from Budapest and before too long you’ll come to the small town of Dunaújváros.

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In incredible spooky news, the latest edition of @gothamguillotine.bsky.social is now out, featuring a manifesto for Gothic Marxism written by me and @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social gothamguillotine.com/2026/10/19/g...

gothamguillotine.com"Gothic Marxism: A Manifesto on the Dark Way of Being Red" by Adam C. Jones & Jon GreenawaySpectres, ghosts, horror and monstrosity are everywhere. These discourses are not simply aesthetic or cultural markers. These are political symptoms, produced by a necrotic and decaying capitalism.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay
@willowcatelyn.bsky.social

THE DEVILS has kind of been marketed as a HARDCORE, NASTY MOVIE, FINALLY UNLEASHED!!! and it is that sometimes, but you'll also want to go watch this movie for the same reason you'd watch a film of such pristine art direction as BARRY LYNDON. It's one of the most beautiful films ever made.

Jon
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Well worth reading the new interview with China Mieville in the latest edition of @gothamguillotine.bsky.social - especially the brief insights into The Rouse gothamguillotine.com/2026/10/19/g...

gothamguillotine.com"Gothic Marxism, The Rouse, and The Nonrational: A Interview with China Miéville" by Dan DellechiaieChina Miéville is a rare breed of writer and thinker. He’s been on the New York Times Best Seller list and is an outspoken Marxist. He’s penned cogent theoretical works and some of the most-lauded Wei...

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Willow Catelyn Maclay
@willowcatelyn.bsky.social

Today is my birthday & if you ever wanted to pick up my book or support me directly you can do so below. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725695... www.patreon.com/c/willowcate...

penguinrandomhouse.comCorpses, Fools and Monsters by Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner: 9781914420580 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future. In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as ...

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Joe Koch
@horrorsong.blog

Modernity is a ruin indeed

Jon@thelitcritguy.bsky.social

In incredible spooky news, the latest edition of @gothamguillotine.bsky.social is now out, featuring a manifesto for Gothic Marxism written by me and @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social gothamguillotine.com/2026/10/19/g...

gothamguillotine.com"Gothic Marxism: A Manifesto on the Dark Way of Being Red" by Adam C. Jones & Jon GreenawaySpectres, ghosts, horror and monstrosity are everywhere. These discourses are not simply aesthetic or cultural markers. These are political symptoms, produced by a necrotic and decaying capitalism.
Jon
@thelitcritguy.bsky.social

This piece isn't about putting forward a prospective route - there isn't a "right way" but merely some profane illumination to the dark ways of being red... 👻

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Gareth Watkins
@garethwatkins.bsky.social

"Boss? Yeah, can't come to work today. Yeah, new Gothic Marxism manifesto just dropped. Glad you understand."

Jon@thelitcritguy.bsky.social

In incredible spooky news, the latest edition of @gothamguillotine.bsky.social is now out, featuring a manifesto for Gothic Marxism written by me and @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social gothamguillotine.com/2026/10/19/g...

gothamguillotine.com"Gothic Marxism: A Manifesto on the Dark Way of Being Red" by Adam C. Jones & Jon GreenawaySpectres, ghosts, horror and monstrosity are everywhere. These discourses are not simply aesthetic or cultural markers. These are political symptoms, produced by a necrotic and decaying capitalism.
Jon
@thelitcritguy.bsky.social

Thank you once again Robert Zombert for all the @horrorvanguard.bsky.social episodes you've given us.

Horror Vanguard@horrorvanguard.bsky.social

Returning to remind you all to listen to our ongoing and exhaustive coverage of maybe the most significant director in American cinema: soundcloud.com/user-3179105...

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DyslexicJake
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I've been listening to back episodes of @horrorvanguard.bsky.social to fill the void and during the Robocop episode there's snippets of protest advice and links for bail funds and it reminds me how beautiful the George Floyd uprising was. Tearing up at it. We really do have a world to win

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Gareth Watkins
@garethwatkins.bsky.social

New from me in @liberalcurrents.com: how the evolution of the right from the Years of Lead through to the Turner Diaries through to discords of 14 year old giggling over gore pics got us to the point where there was almost a livestreamed execution:

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com

Pete Hegseth "is a loser, following an ideology by and for losers. That means that he is very concerned that other losers prove their devotion to the religion of death by showing indifference to human suffering." @garethwatkins.bsky.social writes today www.liberalcurrents.com/public-execu...

liberalcurrents.comPublic ExecutionActs of violence are a sacrament in the fascist civic religion. The new fascist man must be posted into being.