Jonathan Greenaway on the Gothic State of Necrotic Capitalism

<p>In this episode with Jonathan Greenaway (<em><strong>Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century &amp; The Horror Vanguard </strong></em><strong>podcast</strong><em><strong>)</strong></em><em> </em>we arrive at the New Flesh while peeling back the layers of a nightmarish society in stasis.&nbsp;</p> <p>We get into: necro-neoliberalism, depressive hedonia, unspent energy mutating into a gothic maw, our struggle to be and remain human, nostalgia neutralizing hope/fear instead of bringing us closer to history, the internet as a profoundly haunted and haunting device, Paul tells a dumb story about seeing Beyond the Black Rainbow on acid and the glorious weirdness of "Titane"</p> <p>Jon Greenaway is an academic, writer and teacher based in the North of England. He’s currently working on a PhD that focuses on philosophy, theology and the gothic literature of the nineteenth century. He’s also behind @TheLitCritGuy, a social media project that aims to bring critical and cultural theory away from it’s academic enclave and to the widest possible audience. He writes for a variety of publications online and blogs at thelitcritguy.com. He tweets <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuy" target="_blank">@thelitcritguy.</a> Find Jon on Youtube at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/JonTheLitCritGuy/featured" target="_blank">Jon the Lit Crit Guy</a></p> <p><u><strong>Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century</strong></u></p> <p>Surpassing scholarly discourse surrounding the emergent secularism of the 19th century, <em>Theology, Horror and Fiction</em> argues that the Victorian Gothic is a genre fascinated with the immaterial. Through close readings of popular Gothic novels across the 19th century – <em>Frankenstein</em>, <em>Wuthering Heights</em>, <em>Dracula</em> and <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>, among others – Jonathan Greenaway demonstrates that to understand and read Gothic novels is to be drawn into the discourses of theology.<br> <br> Despite the diffe