Is The Tomorrow War patriarchal Arrival?

There is something genuinely horrifying about the way the robot thrashes on the ground and something truly sinister about the robot running through the streets.

Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence YouTube video by Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World

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Moment marathon-running robot shatters after tripping as medical team rush over with stretcher YouTube video by The Sun

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The post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama ‘The Quiet Earth’ starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, and Pete Smith was released to cinemas in the United Kingdom forty years ago this week 🌎 🫥 🪐 #OTD

"𝙶𝚘𝚍 𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚎𝚍... 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚍."

How ‘eco‑dystopian’ novels from Asia and Africa are pushing boundaries Speculative and futuristic visions of environmental calamity are being imagined globally through environmental fiction

How ‘eco‑dystopian’ novels from Asia and Africa are pushing boundaries

Speculative and futuristic visions of environmental calamity are being imagined globally through environmental fiction

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JOB! I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy as part of the ERC LEAD Project.

Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after.

Feel free to contact me with any questions - Share widely!

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I recently had to replace my oven and I was surprised to find that lots of ovens now come with AI integration. Very cheap ones just work and expensive ones have some nonsense app, but a good mid-range oven now has AI for some reason.

Looking at getting a new TV for the first time in a decade and how I've gotta make sure it doesn't have AI? What a stupid future

Jack Black was in both Demolition Man and Waterworld, which seem like they were probably normal filming experiences.

I nearly spit out my coffee when I saw the author.

Opinion | My Time with Jürgen Habermas, Europe's 'Last Intellectual' The sting of rejection lingered for years.

This is truly bizarre.

It's not every day that my teaching requires that I check in on Dale Earnhardt, Jr's career.

Everyday Ecofascism A timely look into how fascist ideas permeate contemporary culture well beyond the far right As challenges posed by climate change have intensified in the tw...

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I get that there are important ecological consequences to the war in Iran, but if that's the only or even primary lens through which you view what's happening right now you're exposing a more fundamental issue in your approach to climate change.

If Reform doesn't win this by-election, what are the odds someone runs a 'Matt Badloss' headline?

So, Jean-Pierre Dupuy really doesn't like cars, huh? Kind of unexpected in the Enlightened Doomsaying book.

Today's post-apocalyptic film is Split Second. It seems appropriate to watch a film set in the UK after 40 days and nights of rain. It's also grim that people were making films in 1992 that imagine a 21st century in which the US is opposing UN climate resolutions.

Two Women kissing in front of a line of police officers during a gay rights demonstration in Staten Island in New York in 1990. (Photo by Thomas McGovern.) Taken from "Making Out, Making Change: The History of Queer Kiss-Ins by Stef Rubino on Autostraddle

Hot for Revolution Caleb Ward Abstract Activists for feminist, queer, and disability justice commonly describe their work as motivated by an erotic desire to build a different world. This chapter argues that this is not merely a metaphor. Drawing on activist case studies and the work of Audre Lorde, the chapter shows that erotic desire and pleasure in social movements can foster political agency for people targeted by sexual oppression. It traces three political benefits of erotic passion in this context: personal empowerment, communal moral resistance against oppressive norms and justifications, and enhanced political imagination toward a world that supports sexual agency. However, because intimate relationships within movements are often distorted by dominant, pernicious ideologies around sex, these political benefits are only realizable when a movement is organized internally around a relational infrastructure – an ethos – that supports sexual agency and equality, responsive to the needs of those targeted by sexual oppression. Keywords: political agency, sexual oppression, social movements, sexual agency, Audre Lorde, feminism, disability, queer politics, moral resistance, political imagination

Members of the Lesbian and Gay community stage a Valentine‘s Day “Kiss-In” 14 February 1988 outside St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to present a message of their unity and love in the face of the “church condoning anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence”. (Photo by MARIA BASTONE / AFP)

What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones?

Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression.

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ESPECIALLY if interdisciplinary, theoretical, and/or continental approaches to TRS are your jam and you don't fancy a trip to the US in November, you should check out the full CFP. Obviously I'd love to see everyone in the RS panel, but there are many others!

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The comments in question: 'In May, [Hunter Ash] wrote that the United States could resolve its racial disparities by “preventing the bottom 25 percent of the overall population from breeding.”'

When you work someplace that requires clarifying your position on eugenics, there might be a problem.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Happy that the Syndicate Symposium on my "Terror and Theology" (@mohrsiebeck.bsky.social 2021) is out! Given how many talk about the return of "Großraum" à la Schmitt again, it's weirdly timely. Unfortunately! Thanks so much to Ryszard Bobrowicz (@bobry.bsky.social) for putting it all together!

Starting 2026 with Day of the Dead which means I've now watched every mainstream English apocalyptic film up until 1990.

They've been sustained by the fantasy that all they have to do is escape only to realise that the same hellscape awaits them everywhere. There is no escape in the end. The fact that the lesson is delivered through song and dance numbers just distracts us from the bleak conclusion.

What makes the film sugarcoated nihilism is the final scene. The last three survivors manage to make it out of the town and one of them asks 'where to next?' And they realise there is nowhere to go.

The zombie apocalypse that eventually breaks out is a manifestation of this situation. They are literally trapped in the town, trying to break free, but everywhere they turn is a dead end. Parents and friends make sacrifices but it all seems for nothing.

The early scenes and musical numbers focus on frustrated romantic and academic ambitions. Everyone is trapped in an unnamed northern UK town (filming was near Glasgow).

My last Christmas film of the year was the incredibly enjoyable Anna and the Apocalypse (2017). The film is more clever than I think maybe even it realises. (Spoilers ahead)