Michael Eden

@michaeledenart.bsky.social

Artist and researcher. Academic Lecturer at University of Arts London. PhD from Middlesex University. https://linktr.ee/Michael_Eden

Titane (2021) is a great example of how art/film can confound theory, it’s an excellent film but progressive it ain’t! The idea that Alexia is a queer or feminist icon involves an incredible refusal of what it’s aesthetics actually do, just ask me (😂): ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...

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Michael Eden@michaeledenart.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My text on Titane is cited in ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/23... is cited in Panek, M. B. (2026). In flesh and metal: Automachinic femininity in Titane. French Cultural Studies, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0957...

Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...

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My PhD thesis is cited in Wyndham Lewis: Modernism and the New Radical Right by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!

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My article Alien: Romulus and the Problematic Saviour​ is published in the iconic Foundation Journal, 150, 54.1 (spring 2025). This continues my interest in the potent, and influential, aesthetics of the Alien franchise.

1/2: I had a wonderful time with @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social discussing Sir Gawain's contemporary relevance and my artistic responses to the poem, which included the painting below 'Gawain Between Two Deaths' (2025), created for the event.

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Medievalism Seminar@ihrmedievalism.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are in for a treat at our next seminar when Dr Michael Eden (University of the Arts) will speak on 'Failed Seriousness and a Subject Worth Fighting For: Representing Sir Gawain'. Wed 12/2/25 17.30 at @ihr.bsky.social or online. Info, abstract and registration at: www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...

A photograph of a sculpture comprising an empty stylised suit of armour posed as if arising from a prone position with its left arm raised.