New episode!! What’s Next for Sci-Fi and its Empires? W/ RevLeftRadio Joined by our great friend Breht, we talk about the elaborate dynamics of empires, their history, and their potential futures! Enjoy! theleftpage.libsyn.com/whats-next-f...

The Left Page: What's Next for Sci-Fi and it's Empires? w/ RevLeftRadio

We're back into Science Fiction, and with a great friend and comrade! As Breht from RevLeftRadio fame joins us to talk about the relationship of this genre and Empires. Talking the roots of imperial r...

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NEW WRITING: "At their best, the books use violence, body horror and political intriguing as synecdoche for the challenges of trying to create narrative subjects from essentially nothing at all" www.patreon.com/TheLitCritGu...

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Whisper it, but I have finally managed to make my way to the halfway point of The Horus Heresy novels. Finally, there are fewer novels ahead

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Mean Green Hermeneutic Machine w/ Jay (@wildeatheart.bsky.social) Joined by our great friend Jay we dive into Arthuriana, Tolkien, and how adaptation can function well, talking about The Green Knight with Dev Patel! An excellent film, poem, and time! Enjoy! theleftpage.libsyn.com/mean-green-h...

Mean Green Hermeneutic Machine w/ Jay (@wildeatheart.bsky.social) Joined by our great friend Jay we dive into Arthuriana, Tolkien, and how adaptation can function well, talking about The Green Knight with Dev Patel! An excellent film, poem, and time! Enjoy! theleftpage.libsyn.com/mean-green-h...

Let’s Prattle #4 - The Poetics of Villainy What are some of our favourite villains? What makes them compelling? This, alongside our current reads and planning integrate this new LP! And our penultimate Book Club episode of Game of Thrones! Enjoy! theleftpage.libsyn.com/lets-prattle...

The Left Page: Let's Prattle #4 - The Poetics of Villainy

itinerary: 00:00:00 - 00:34:30 - Intro 00:34:30 - 01:44:40 - Villains! 01:44:40 - END - Book Club (Cat VII - Cat VIII) Given we're pretty close, we'll be going from the next chapter, Tyrion VII, all t...

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The most insane thing I have ever written. Ultimately once you get past my (overly) self indulgent metaphysics there is some decent historiographical and anti-reactionary writing in there. www.patreon.com/leftpage/pos...

Warhammer 40k Horus Heresy – Textus Secundus: The Passagen-Werk of Warhammer | The Left Page

My First Text Jon's Writing on Warhammer In my last text titled Warhammer 40k I wrote about all kinds of things, sometimes even including

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There is no other person than Jon that could make me (re)familiarize myself with Kierkegaard Although his work remains unconvincing to me. Admittedly this is rarely my goal reading older philosophy anyway, I think it's a fascinating lense to view media through And here Jon shows us how:

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NEW WRITING: "The ethical ideal of the Imperium of Man is always-already fractured, which explains why the emotional arc of so many of these novels is the move from aesthetic certainty to ethical anxiety." www.patreon.com/TheLitCritGu...

New episode!! What’s Next for Sci-Fi and its Empires? W/ RevLeftRadio Joined by our great friend Breht, we talk about the elaborate dynamics of empires, their history, and their potential futures! Enjoy! theleftpage.libsyn.com/whats-next-f...

The Left Page: What's Next for Sci-Fi and it's Empires? w/ RevLeftRadio

We're back into Science Fiction, and with a great friend and comrade! As Breht from RevLeftRadio fame joins us to talk about the relationship of this genre and Empires. Talking the roots of imperial r...

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Let’s Prattle #3 - Help! I am Being Pathologized! How do games pathologize our behaviour? Can we work around or against it? In what ways should we? This, and lots more, in the newest Let’s Prattle! Including recent gaming news and our Book Club! theleftpage.libsyn.com/lets-prattle...

The Left Page: Lets Prattle # 3 - Help! I am Being Pathologized!

This time we go into how we think about Pathology in media and videogames, while still talking about gaming news and the Left Page Book Club, enjoy! itinerary: 00:00:00-01:03:21 - Intro + Summer Games...

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NEW WRITING: On Curry Barker's excellent horror movie Obsession, objectification and the alienating horror of the contemporary social world. Very excited to be back at @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/obsessi...

“Obsession” and the Horror of Treating People Like Products

In director Curry Barker’s hit indie horror film, we can see the fundamental ghastliness of consumer society.

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Our newest Patreon project now sees its first part unlocked! "Zoning-In" with Pacific Drive! What is this idea of a "Zone"? How can we explore and formulate it? Join us as we go through this great game and try to think it through! www.patreon.com/posts/zoning...

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"Zoning-In" with Pacific Drive by The Left Page on Patreon. Join The Left Page's community for exclusive content and updates.

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A new Let’s Prattle is now up, with a lot to talk about! We pick back up on AI, Leon begins the telling of their Assassin’s Creed journey, and we discuss the ideas of “Power Fantasies”, in a very great time! Enjoy! theleftpage.libsyn.com/lets-prattle...

The Left Page: Let's Prattle #2 - Fantasies of Power

We continue our travails this time with disecting the discourses around power fantasies and an interesting track through one of videogames largest franchises. Itinerary: 00:00:00 - 00:15:52 Intro (Wh...

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New episode!! "Concerning Men": The Patriarchy & Weaponized Media Illiteracy We look into how these "readings" work, or don't, while delving into some theory to discuss masculinity and the full presence of patriarchy. Enjoy! theleftpage.libsyn.com/concerning-m...

The Left Page: "Concerning" Men: The Patriarchy & Weaponized Media Illiteracy

We're talking about men this time. Using different media like Star Wars, American Psycho, and Blade Runner 2049, we develop some theory on this idea of "media illiteracy", on masculinity and its toxic...

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I read 27 books in 2 months and have thoughts You don't need to know or care about Warhammer, only to hate empire "the best way to understand Warhammer is as an affirmative exercise in this non-identity against the omni-presence of capitalist rationality" www.patreon.com/posts/warham...

Warhammer 40k - The Horus Heresy: The Immaterium's Negative Dialectic & How to read Warhammer | The Left Page

Warhammer 40k - The Horus Heresy: The Immaterium's Negative Dialectic & How to read Warhammer by The Left Page on Patreon. Join The Left Page's community for exclusive content and updates.

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I read 27 books in 2 months and have thoughts You don't need to know or care about Warhammer, only to hate empire "the best way to understand Warhammer is as an affirmative exercise in this non-identity against the omni-presence of capitalist rationality" www.patreon.com/posts/warham...

Warhammer 40k - The Horus Heresy: The Immaterium's Negative Dialectic & How to read Warhammer | The Left Page

Warhammer 40k - The Horus Heresy: The Immaterium's Negative Dialectic & How to read Warhammer by The Left Page on Patreon. Join The Left Page's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Jon is the only one keeping me sane as we both walk this grimmest and darkest of paths. Please give this some love!

Jon@thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW WRITING: On the Horus Heresy and transmedia storytelling: “The materialist project eats itself alive, destroyed not by forces external to itself, but by the irrational kernel concealed within all rationality.” www.patreon.com/posts/156616...

New thing! Various smaller ideas, what we’re playing/reading/watching, and the start of The Left Page Book Club! Let’s Prattle! theleftpage.libsyn.com/lets-prattle...

The Left Page: Let's Prattle #1 - AI in Video Games

A new kind of episode! Lighter and more current, as we talk about what we've been playing, some things we've been thinking about, and the new Left Page Book Club! Time stamps 00:00:00 - 00:40:40 Intro...

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New Episode! What Escapism has Sown What happens when we don't look critically at escapist fantasies? To answer, we paired games that go for a “daily life”, but couldn’t be more different, Stardew Valley (2016) & Citizen Sleeper (2022, 2025) Enjoy! theleftpage.libsyn.com/what-escapis...

The Left Page: What Escapism Has Sown

We deploy Critical Harvest Theory in this episode, when we ask: What happens when we don't look critically at escapist fantasies? We then try to answer this question by looking at two video games: Sta...

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Made this public for the gamers ⬇️

Jon@thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New writing: " I came here too late. The party is already over, anyone left is a ghost, muttering fragments of words I don’t fully understand." On Dark Souls: www.patreon.com/posts/154543...

New Episode! This Podcast Kills Fascists! We are joined by our amazing comrade and friend @thelitcritguy.bsky.social ! Enjoy! theleftpage.libsyn.com/wolfenstein-...

The Left Page: Wolfenstein: How to Kill Fascism? W/ TheLitCritGuy

Wolfenstein is a fascinating series of games, so let’s talk about the recent Machine Games’ iterations. Asking the fundamental question of how to properly kill fascism and how this game is presenting ...

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New Episode! This Podcast Kills Fascists! We are joined by our amazing comrade and friend @thelitcritguy.bsky.social ! Enjoy! theleftpage.libsyn.com/wolfenstein-...

The Left Page: Wolfenstein: How to Kill Fascism? W/ TheLitCritGuy

Wolfenstein is a fascinating series of games, so let’s talk about the recent Machine Games’ iterations. Asking the fundamental question of how to properly kill fascism and how this game is presenting ...

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An excellent episode tackling one of the things that's consistently been driving me insane online(and everybody can tell) boring fucking nerds crying about "HISTORICAL ACCURACY" Note: Don't feel bad if I call you boring for this! It's extremely fucking boring!

The Left Page@theleftpage.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Bad news everyone, the people who used to like cinemasins have discovered Wikipedia. Join us as we dissect how you should NOT talk about History, Mythology, or Fantasy. Don't let it all be Greek to you! Listen to the episode before it's too late! theleftpage.libsyn.com/the-left-pag...

We were so prepared for this to be bad, and it was a pleasant surprise that these books (so far) are fine? Is this still franchise literature made to sell to largely uncritical nerds? Yes. But it takes itself seriously enough to understands it's own premise, and therefore manages to be meaningful.

Jon@thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

13. Dan Abnett, "Horus Rising" -- way, wayyyyy better than I was expecting: self aware, funny and charming. Love a grim sci-fi novel that's just huge men talking about their conflicting emotions. I haven't engaged with any 40k media for around ten years and I had a lot of fun with this.

Bad news everyone, the people who used to like cinemasins have discovered Wikipedia. Join us as we dissect how you should NOT talk about History, Mythology, or Fantasy. Don't let it all be Greek to you! Listen to the episode before it's too late! theleftpage.libsyn.com/the-left-pag...

The Left Page: The Left Page - Oddysscourse. The Tragedy of MAGA-memnom

Hello everyone!! Today we're starting off with our new kinds of episodes, as we discuss a more broad element... the discourse on the new Oddyssey film! We've often talked about historical representati...

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New stuff! An Analysis of Adapting History Into Games Pt. 1: Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Free for everyone on Patreon!! www.patreon.com/posts/analys...

It's our 7 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! Come celebrate with us as we look back into what has been, how the show and Leon and Frank have changed their view of the podcast, alongside a brief look over what's to come! Happy 7 years of podcasting!! shows.acast.com/the-left-pag...

The Left Page 7 Year Anniversary! | The Left Page & Here Be Media

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HAPPY 100th LEFT PAGE!! Ep. 100 - Don Quixote: Jousting with Fiction! In this extra special episode we go into the first proper novel, talking books, reading, knights, and materialism, of course!! Enjoy this super special episode to celebrate 100 episodes!! shows.acast.com/the-left-pag...

Congratulations to The Bad Game Hall of Fame, celebrating 10 years!! A truly wonderful project that is informative, entertaining, and just as importantly, cares about games, their history, and the people who make them! We urge you to check them out!

Bad Game Hall of Fame@bghof.com · 6mo ago

Our ten year anniversary spectacular is up now on YouTube! In which we once again battle revisionist history around E.T. on the VCS, play several games far worse than the supposed "worst game of all time," and reminisce on those days spent writing over-long articles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4tE...

We keep saying how he has truly nothing interesting/good/well-researched to say!

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 6mo ago

Bro. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...