Monkey Said The Mushroom

23/12/2022

This was part of a paper presented at a free Romancing the Gothic weekend presentation on the 19th of November 2022. Thanks to Sam as always for her brilliant work. The Gothic has long been preoccupied with what lurks below the surface of the water. The intense isolation of the ship at sea and the perceived threat of what lies beneath are potent manifestations of ecophobia, making nautical or marine Gothic inextricably intertwined with the ecoGothic....

This was part of a paper presented at a free Romancing the Gothic weekend presentation on the 19th of November 2022. Thanks to Sam as always for her brilliant work. The Gothic has long been preoccu…

05/12/2022

“Things in these digital worlds fit into place,” Pinder says. “They turn everyday frustrations into a solvable puzzle and there is something very satisfying and empowering about that.”

“Things in these digital worlds fit into place,” Pinder says. “They turn everyday frustrations into a solvable puzzle and there is something very satisfying and empowering about that.”

22/11/2022

his post draws on elements from a chapter on rabbit antagonists in film that I have contributed to Beeler’s Animals in Narrative Film and Television. In this chapter, I briefly examined 1972’s Night of the Lepus and 1964’s Year of the Angry Rabbit. But there is so much more to explore in this bizarre book and its strange progeny....

his post draws on elements from a chapter on rabbit antagonists in film that I have contributed to Beeler’s Animals in Narrative Film and Television.  In this chapter, I briefly exam…

14/02/2022

Ecology in Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently Series Abstract: The Dirk Gently series written by Douglas Adams mixes comedy, detective fiction and science fiction to create narratives capable of conveying ecological meaning in a variety of ways. Using ecocritical theory this thesis unpacks the ecological themes and implications of the Dirk Gently series; ‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’ (1987), ‘The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul’, (1988) and the unfinished and posthumously published ‘The Salmon of Doubt’ (2002)....

Ecology in Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently Series Abstract: The Dirk Gently series written by Douglas Adams mixes comedy, detective fiction and science fiction to create narratives capable of conveying …

10/09/2021

Extremely Rough Transcript Since their inception, video games have imagined future spaces. Video games make it possible for the player, to not just envisage but explore, post-apocalyptic spaces through environmental storytelling and embedded eco-narratives. These post-apocalyptic spaces are manifestations of contemporary anxieties, allowing the player to interpret the causal relationship between current practices and the collapse of social order and ecologies....

Extremely Rough Transcript Since their inception, video games have imagined future spaces. Video games make it possible for the player, to not just envisage but explore, post-apocalyptic spaces thr…

23/06/2021

When I finished my thesis I really didn't think I'd be revisiting Some Distant Memory (Galvanic Games 2019) any time in the near future. The story is captivating but it is quite linear. But when I realised how incomplete my notes were from my Masters I was forced to go back to the game before I finalised my paper for…...

When I finished my thesis I really didn’t think I’d be revisiting Some Distant Memory (Galvanic Games 2019) any time in the near future. The story is captivating but it is quite linear.…

09/06/2021

Focusing on Ship Breakers by Paolo Bacigalupi, Carbon Diaries; Book 1 by Saci Lloyd & Solstice by PJ Hoover Post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction utilises adolescent anxieties and curiosities about the future, allowing the reader to negotiate those anxieties in speculative future spaces. As a coming of age narrative, the dystopian novel often creates a reality in which challenges such as- parental relationships, class, sexuality and managing new responsibilities- are heightened by extreme circumstances....

Focusing on Ship Breakers by Paolo Bacigalupi, Carbon Diaries; Book 1 by Saci Lloyd & Solstice by PJ Hoover Post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction utilises adolescent anxieties and curiosities …

09/06/2021

Image By User:A,Ocram - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, ‘Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a colour…’ - Bluets by Maggie Nelson Maggie Nelson, in her book Bluets (2009), singles out one colour, blue, for special attention, however, it becomes clear very quickly that no colour can exist in isolation, despite the narrator attempting to seek it out in its most pure and powerful forms....

Image By User:A,Ocram – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, ‘Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a colour…’ – Bluets by Maggie Nelson Maggie Nelson, in her book Bl…

07/06/2021

The Sinking City (Ukraine: Frogwares, 2019) Morgan K. Pinder Something sinister is stirring in the depths below Oakmont Massachusetts. It’s the 1920s and private investigator Charles W. Reed is troubled by sinister visions that have drawn him to this mysterious seaside city. What awaits him is a series of disturbing mysteries and a myriad of Eldritch horrors waiting to be uncovered....

The Sinking City (Ukraine: Frogwares, 2019) Morgan K. Pinder Something sinister is stirring in the depths below Oakmont Massachusetts. It’s the 1920s and private investigator Charles W. Reed is tro…

08/07/2019

The FrankenPod - A Gothic Literature and Cinema Podcast : Penny for your thoughts? Penny Dreadful Episode 1 with Courtney of Cult of Domesticity