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Dear Eileen, on British politics, history, nationalism, &c.

Posted on August 16, 2015 by incomingpast

Dear Eileen, First of all thank you for your question about Corbyn, it prompted a lot of thoughts on a wider range of subjects. I apologise for the length of my ranting response and hope it contains enough insights to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2015, 2020, Ancien Régime, Austerity, Capitalism, Christianity, Church of England, England, General Election, Guardian, history, Ireland, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Leadership Election, Liberal Democrats, Miliband, Popularism, Scotland, SDP, SNP, Thatcher, Tory, Trotsky, Wales, Whig | 2 Comments

Paris

Posted on June 25, 2012 by incomingpast

Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol-world of mythology.—Walter Benjamin We own a dog—he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture | Tagged A. S. Byatt, Absinthe, Amélie, An American Werewolf in Paris, Ancien Régime, Arcades Project, art nouveau, Before Sunset, Cat, Champs-Élysées, Dammann Frères, Degas, Delacroix, egalitarianism, Eiffel Tower, Eric Hobsbawm, Exposition Universelle, Fête de La Musique, France, Galerie Vivienne, Gilbert Adair, H. P. Lovecraft, Haussmann, impressionists, Lautrec, Le Chat Noir, Les Invalides, Louvre, Manet, May ’68, McCafé, Midnight in Paris, Monet, Montmartre, Moulin Rouge, Musée d’Orsay, Napoleon, nineteenth century, Notre Dame, Paris, Parisian, Peter McPhee, Pont Alexandre III, post-impressionists, Ragnarök: the End of the Gods, Renoir, Robespierre, Rodin, Sacré-Cœur Basilica, Shakespeare and Company, Tanygrisiau, The Dreamers, Van Goth, Victor Hugo, Wales, Walter Benjamin, zoetrope | Leave a comment

Vampires and Class Migration

Posted on December 14, 2011 by incomingpast

One of our boogiemen has changed. Vampires were conceived as an evil aristocracy, but in new mythopoeia they are recast as morally ambiguous lumpenproletariat, Marx’s, ‘swindlers, confidence tricksters, brothel-keepers, rag-and-bone merchants, beggars, and other flotsam of society’—more flatteringly describable as … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Politics | Tagged Alan Ball, Alucard, Ancien Régime, anime, Beckett, Bela Lugosi, Black Blood Brothers, bohemianism, bourgeoisie moralism, Bram Stoker, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Byronic, Capitalism, Carnivalesque, Charlaine Harris, Christianity, Christine Seifert, class, class migration, conservativism, cultural regression, Daybreakers, Dionysian, Dracula, existentialist, Francis Ford Coppola, Gothic, Hellsing, ideology, Jekyll and Hyde, Joel Schumacher, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Kafka, Kathryn Bigelow, Låt den rätte komma in, Lord of Misrule, lumpenproletariat, lycan, lycanthrope, manga, Marx, Max Schreck, middle-classes, Nancy Spungen, Near Dark, Neoliberalism, Nietzsche, Owen Jones, priem ostranenie, proletariat, Riot, Romantic, Sid Vicious, Stephenie Meyer, The Lost Boys, transgression, Trinity Blood, True Blood, Twilight, Underworld, vampire, vampires, Weber, werewolf, working-class | 4 Comments

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