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• Bookmark John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought - Nerdist

  In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror…

  November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Transformation and Transcendence in 1980s Body Horror ‹ CrimeReads

  ‘My mind is bent to tell of bodies changed into new forms.’ These are the opening words of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

  September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Why 'The Fly' Is Still a Body Horror Masterpiece

  The set-up for David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly is straightforward enough. The handsome, eccentric scientist Seth (Jeff Goldblum) is trying to perfect a teleportation device.

  March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark There's Nothing Scarier Than a Hungry Woman - Electric Literature

  Rosemary Woodhouse has unwrapped a piece of steak from its waxy brown paper. She cuts it in half and drops it into a hot pan. It sizzles. She flips it. She…

  December 20 2019, 12:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark MONSTROUS THOUGHTS: Philosopher Eugene Thacker on the “New Golden Age of Horror”…

  When René Descartes, sitting in his armchair in Leiden in 1641, invites his readers to meditate alongside him, you get the sense he could do with the company.

  August 21 2019, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Horror is a dark and piercing reflection of our anxious times |…

  In Ray Bradbury’s horror short story, ‘The Next in Line’ (1955), a woman visits the catacombs in Guanajuato, Mexico. Mummified bodies line the walls.

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought | Nerdist

  In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing | VHS Revival

  In an era of countless reboots, we have come to regard the whole process as a cynical exercise whose primary goal is to slash expenditure, but that was not always the…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The Most Disturbing Movies of All Time | Complex

  Let’s start by setting the record straight: mainstream comedies and dramas are great. In an increasingly complicated and frustrating world, cinema as a form of escapism is a valid move, and…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Outer Space: Hexus Journal…

  To start our run up to Halloween, Thogdin Ripley and Philippa Snow of avant-horror publishers Hexus Journal pick thirteen films that blur the worlds of horror and the avant-garde to frightening,…

  January 13 2018, 11:11am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fatberg Cometh | Sam Kriss

  These are just the facts. On July 22, 2013, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth to her first child, Prince George. Two weeks later, an enormous “fatberg” was discovered in the…

  October 1 2017, 4:03pm | Comments

• Instagram The Noise of Being: available at sonicacts.com!

  September 8 2017, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Evil Under The Soil: Burial and Unearthing in Folk Horror -…

  Like any other genre of film, television or literature, Folk Horror has its own collection of traits, tropes and tendencies.

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

• Tumblr The Thing

  August 28 2017, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Space and myth in a body horror - Mythogeography

  It might seem strange that a mythogeographer would be very interested in an action-horror movie from 1982, panned at the time of its release and largely ignored by audiences.

  June 27 2017, 3:50am | Comments

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  April 29 2017, 12:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Queer Horror Is Stepping Out of the Shadows | WIRED

  Horror movies don’t have the best track record when it comes to depicting queer characters. Often there are no LGBT characters at all, and when they do appear they’re likely to…

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future Of Body Horror: Can Our Art Keep Up With Our…

  You see, what we’re talkin’ about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates ‘em perfectly. –Dr. Blair, The Thing

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Flickr Sonic Acts Festival 2017 - Day 4 - Sunday 26 February

  February 28 2017, 4:44am | Comments

• Flickr Sonic Acts Festival 2017 - Day 4 - Sunday 26 February

  February 28 2017, 4:44am | Comments

• Flickr Sonic Acts Festival 2017 - Day 4 - Sunday 26 February

  February 28 2017, 4:44am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Exhibist Magazine Issue 11

  January 31 2017, 3:51am | Comments

• Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

  August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments

• Additivism The 3D Additivist Manifesto at HMKV, Dortmund (exhibition)

  April 14 2016, 5:51am | Comments

• Additivism Accelerationist Art

  April 14 2016, 3:44am | Comments

• Additivism »Wir haben die Möglichkeit, Dinge auferstehen zu lassen«Warum...

  April 11 2016, 5:52am | Comments

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  April 8 2016, 5:38am | Comments

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  March 31 2016, 4:29am | Comments

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  March 18 2016, 4:48am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism talk for Disnovation Panel at Transmediale

  Additivism talk for Disnovation Panel at Transmediale, (4th Feb 2016)Daniel Rourke talked about deep time, horror, crap, ‘The Weird’ and The Radical at Transmediale festival, Berlin. The talk was part of the Disnovation Research panel, featuring Jean-Marie Boyer, Ewen Chardronnet, Nicolas Maigret, Erin Sexton,…

  February 9 2016, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The ghost that haunts American literature: The genius & the repugnance of…

  Howard Phillips Lovecraft will make you believe in ghosts. The legendary “cosmic horror” author has been dead for 78 years, and yet he continues to get more controversial by the day.

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

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• Bookmark John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought - Nerdist

  In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror…

  November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Transformation and Transcendence in 1980s Body Horror ‹ CrimeReads

  ‘My mind is bent to tell of bodies changed into new forms.’ These are the opening words of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

  September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Why 'The Fly' Is Still a Body Horror Masterpiece

  The set-up for David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly is straightforward enough. The handsome, eccentric scientist Seth (Jeff Goldblum) is trying to perfect a teleportation device.

  March 1 2020, 7:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark There's Nothing Scarier Than a Hungry Woman - Electric Literature

  Rosemary Woodhouse has unwrapped a piece of steak from its waxy brown paper. She cuts it in half and drops it into a hot pan. It sizzles. She flips it. She…

  December 20 2019, 12:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark MONSTROUS THOUGHTS: Philosopher Eugene Thacker on the “New Golden Age of Horror”…

  When René Descartes, sitting in his armchair in Leiden in 1641, invites his readers to meditate alongside him, you get the sense he could do with the company.

  August 21 2019, 4:09am | Comments

• Bookmark Horror is a dark and piercing reflection of our anxious times |…

  In Ray Bradbury’s horror short story, ‘The Next in Line’ (1955), a woman visits the catacombs in Guanajuato, Mexico. Mummified bodies line the walls.

  October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought | Nerdist

  In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror…

  July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing | VHS Revival

  In an era of countless reboots, we have come to regard the whole process as a cynical exercise whose primary goal is to slash expenditure, but that was not always the…

  June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments

• Bookmark The Most Disturbing Movies of All Time | Complex

  Let’s start by setting the record straight: mainstream comedies and dramas are great. In an increasingly complicated and frustrating world, cinema as a form of escapism is a valid move, and…

  June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments

• Bookmark The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Outer Space: Hexus Journal…

  To start our run up to Halloween, Thogdin Ripley and Philippa Snow of avant-horror publishers Hexus Journal pick thirteen films that blur the worlds of horror and the avant-garde to frightening,…

  January 13 2018, 11:11am | Comments

• Bookmark The Fatberg Cometh | Sam Kriss

  These are just the facts. On July 22, 2013, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth to her first child, Prince George. Two weeks later, an enormous “fatberg” was discovered in the…

  October 1 2017, 4:03pm | Comments

• Instagram The Noise of Being: available at sonicacts.com!

  September 8 2017, 5:37am | Comments

• Bookmark The Evil Under The Soil: Burial and Unearthing in Folk Horror -…

  Like any other genre of film, television or literature, Folk Horror has its own collection of traits, tropes and tendencies.

  September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments

• Tumblr The Thing

  August 28 2017, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Space and myth in a body horror - Mythogeography

  It might seem strange that a mythogeographer would be very interested in an action-horror movie from 1982, panned at the time of its release and largely ignored by audiences.

  June 27 2017, 3:50am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 29 2017, 12:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark Queer Horror Is Stepping Out of the Shadows | WIRED

  Horror movies don’t have the best track record when it comes to depicting queer characters. Often there are no LGBT characters at all, and when they do appear they’re likely to…

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Future Of Body Horror: Can Our Art Keep Up With Our…

  You see, what we’re talkin’ about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates ‘em perfectly. –Dr. Blair, The Thing

  March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments

• Flickr Sonic Acts Festival 2017 - Day 4 - Sunday 26 February

  February 28 2017, 4:44am | Comments

• Flickr Sonic Acts Festival 2017 - Day 4 - Sunday 26 February

  February 28 2017, 4:44am | Comments

• Flickr Sonic Acts Festival 2017 - Day 4 - Sunday 26 February

  February 28 2017, 4:44am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Portfolio Exhibist Magazine Issue 11

  January 31 2017, 3:51am | Comments

• Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

  August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments

• Additivism The 3D Additivist Manifesto at HMKV, Dortmund (exhibition)

  April 14 2016, 5:51am | Comments

• Additivism Accelerationist Art

  April 14 2016, 3:44am | Comments

• Additivism »Wir haben die Möglichkeit, Dinge auferstehen zu lassen«Warum...

  April 11 2016, 5:52am | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 8 2016, 5:38am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 31 2016, 4:29am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 18 2016, 4:48am | Comments

• Additivism #Additivism talk for Disnovation Panel at Transmediale

  Additivism talk for Disnovation Panel at Transmediale, (4th Feb 2016)Daniel Rourke talked about deep time, horror, crap, ‘The Weird’ and The Radical at Transmediale festival, Berlin. The talk was part of the Disnovation Research panel, featuring Jean-Marie Boyer, Ewen Chardronnet, Nicolas Maigret, Erin Sexton,…

  February 9 2016, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The ghost that haunts American literature: The genius & the repugnance of…

  Howard Phillips Lovecraft will make you believe in ghosts. The legendary “cosmic horror” author has been dead for 78 years, and yet he continues to get more controversial by the day.

  December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments

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