Jordan S. Carroll
@JordanSCarroll
Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (U of MN Press, Oct. 2024) and Reading the Obscene (Stanford 2021). Opinions mine.
I just found out that you can now pre-order Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right! amazon.com/Speculative-Wh…
"He was too clever to be happy, not clever enough to be successful." CV Wedgwood
many such cases...
read and finished a really mid book that was critically beloved and I had to check with people with good taste to see if I had lost the plot or was the book mid... private consensus minted it as mid
what does it say that "old grandparent figure consoles you with their wisdom" has become a major YouTube genre?
we need a philanthropist to pay a bunch of people to log off and move to a village away from AI slop before they've been contaminated. it'll be like the global seed vault but for protecting cognitive diversity from brainrot.
In "Speculative Whiteness", @JordanSCarroll unpicks the relationship between science fiction and the alt-right (@UMinnPress) newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6438
I mean, it can be
sort of obsessed with the idea that cosmic horror is when the moon is scary
I object—my beard should be significantly bigger in this rendering
I got nerdsniped by a leftist essay on today's dissident right science fiction and wrote a lengthy analysis/rebuttal. futuristletters.com/p/the-priest-o…
[baby boomer imagining what a prosperous life looks like in the world they’ve left behind for their children] so imagine you work six days per week at a rural gas station
(1) A young married couple, both unskilled, take convenience store jobs at $15/hr in a moderately prosperous state. The big convenience and fast-food chains offer pretty good benefits. They both work 48-hour weeks, giving them a combined annual income of $74,880, enough to pay…
marx never considered value
A fundamental weakness of socialism is that socialists don’t understand what value is. They think value is just “there” and all they have to do is seize it from the rich and give it to the poor. Value is created by talented people with ideas who need to be incentivised to create.
A new book unpicks the complex, deep-rooted relationship between science fiction and the alt-right newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6438
Two words to set you on edge: conspiracy theory. Whether it's tin foil hats or the more sinister theories dominating narratives today, conspiracies never seem to go away. Jordan S Carroll is here to explore their allure as part of Writing the Occult: Belief on 6 Sept. Meet him ⬇️
I wrote a whole book about this... upress.umn.edu/9781517917081/…
I have zero interest in discussing Watchmen. but the common rightwing geek approach to Rorschach of "Alan Moore is an idiot who accidentally made a character he disagrees with sympathetic and right" reveals a lot about that particular demographic's approach to politics in art
Sintetiza aquí @JordanSCarroll los principales rasgos del fantafuturismo autoritario y racista de los nuevos posmofascismos y repasa algunas de las principales aportaciones bibliográficas recientes a su estudio. Lectura recomendadísima lareviewofbooks.org/article/reacti… vía @LAReviewofBooks
"They tell themselves that they are sacrificing the masses in the short run so that in the long term they can build heaven on Mars with their God-like supercomputers." @jordanscarroll considers scholarship on the alt-right. lareviewofbooks.org/article/reacti…
I wrote a retrospective on futurism and the far right from 2024 for the Los Angeles Review of Books. This includes not only a review of recent scholarship but also new directions in my own work on this subject.
"What unites these people together is their belief that radical subversives and racialized outsiders have robbed them of a better future." @jordanscarroll considers reactionary futurism and recent scholarship on the alt-right. lareviewofbooks.org/article/reacti…