writing – michael uhall

Peer-reviewed academic publications are listed here. Occasional writings or translations can be found at the Noir Materialism blog. I also do design and writing for Moth Hovel Games, and some of our products can be purchased directly from Exalted Funeral and Emperors of Eternal Evil.

Published fiction

The Frost Crabs of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Short novel from Mount Abraxas Press (formerly Ex Occidente Press). Available from a variety of online vendors (Arcane Offerings, Courtyard Books, Haus Nostromo, Ziesings, …). Reviews: The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews. Forrest for the Trees.

“Hunting a Tyrant.” Mycelia 5 (Summer 2022). Hedera Felix.
“Matsuri.” Vastarien: A Literary Journal 4:2 (Fall 2021). Grimscribe Press.
“A Tyranny of Tongues.” Vastarien: A Literary Journal 4:1 (Spring 2021). Grimscribe Press. Des Lewis writes in a review: “A complex of story and essay becoming a Swiftian fable if not one of the alternate truths of our times. […] I cannot stress enough the power of some of the words themselves used in this document. Tongues used as horror monsters for a horror story.” The story was also adapted as a short film by Secret Haus Productions.
“The Face of Allan Dulles.” Mycelia 3 (Winter 2019/Spring 2020). Hedera Felix.
“Notes Toward a Philosophy of Sleep.” In Machinations and Mesmerism: Tales Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffman. Edited by Farah Rose Smith. Ulthar Press, 2019. Reviews: Hellnotes.

“The Mad German.” Vastarien: A Literary Journal 1:3 (Autumn 2018). Grimscribe Press. Cover art by Aeron Alfrey depicts a central image from the story:

- “How to Construct a Gun from Your Own Flesh.” Vastarien: A Literary Journal 1:1 (Spring 2018). Grimscribe Press. Also available as a podcast from Pseudopod and as an independent reading by Mike Ream.

Other publications

- “Original sin and its photocopies: K. W. Jeter and theodicy.” Forthcoming.
- “Technically meat: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Tecnicamenta dolce and the Italian cannibal film.” Forthcoming.
- “American psychogeography: Matthew Bartlett and the witch cult in Western Massachusetts.” Forthcoming.
- “Gift of the gun: Zardoz and the origins of civilization.” Forthcoming from Vault of Culture.
- “Nightmare green: Cannibal Holocaust as theory-fiction.” Ancillary Review of Books (December 2024).
- “Vaporwave Megatext: Bret Easton Ellis’ Glamorama (1998).” Utopia District (November 2024).
- “The agora and the archipelago.” DIFFRACTIONS (October 2024).
- “Wars of the Lord: here’s the DRILL by Scott R. Jones.” 3:AM Magazine (June 2024).
- “Spirals of reason: the inhuman vitalism of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki.” Gothic Nature (June 2024).
- “Vaporwave Megatext: J. G. Ballard’s Vermilion Sands (1971).” Utopia District (January 2024).
- “Cybergothic human typewriter: Kenji Siratori’s chronotopologies.” 3:AM Magazine (December 2023).
- “Vaporwave Megatext: Simon Sellars’ Code Beast (2023).” Utopia District (September 2023).
- “Geopolitics and marriage: on Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981).” Vault of Culture (September 2023).
- “COLD_FUTURES.EXE and the Virtual Exodus™.” Utopia District (April 2023).
- “A specter, a speaker: on ‘Whistle and I’ll Come to You’ (1968).” Vault of Culture (January 2022).
- “Toxic love in ‘Beyond the Aquila Rift’.” Vault of Culture (September 2021).
- “Dark anthropocentrism.” SYNTHETIC ZERØ (June 2021).
- “Gray sky thinking: John Boyd’s entropy machine.” SYNTHETIC ZERØ (March 2021).
- “Hegalien: on H. R. Giger’s Hegel.” Alienist IX (December 2020): 93-100.
- “Existentially weighted time decay: speculative fragmentation and political immunology.” Diffractions Collective (November 2020).
- “Gray sky thinking: Augustine and institutional resilience.” SYNTHETIC ZERØ (October 2020).
- “Gray sky thinking: Plato and political decay.” SYNTHETIC ZERØ (October 2020).
- “Introduction to gray sky thinking.” SYNTHETIC ZERØ (October 2020).
- “Occupy Kant: remarks on racism and liberalism.” Kritik (September 2020).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: the posthuman question in Alien: Covenant (2017).” Vault of Culture (May 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: astronoetic pessimism in Prometheus (2012).” Vault of Culture (May 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: Interstellar (2014).” Vault of Culture (May 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: Gravity (2013).” Vault of Culture (May 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: Contact (1997).” Vault of Culture (April 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).” Vault of Culture (April 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: an introduction.” Vault of Culture (April 2019).
- “Salvaging the feral.” Kritik (September 2018).
- “From extinction: nine strategies for a left-hand exit.” Environmental Critique (June 2018).
- “Living with biopolitical nightmares.” Kritik (October 2017).
- “The roots of creative darkness.” Environmental Critique (April 2017).
- “Foucault and the necropolitics of reproduction.” Kritik (October 2016).
- “Cosmopolitics and Area X: on Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation.” Environmental Critique (February 2016).

Unpublished translations

- - Emiliano Gonzáles – “Rudisbroeck o los autómatas” (1978)
  - Emiliano Gonzáles – “El devorador de planetas” (1989)
  - Michelangelo Antonioni – Tecnicamenta dolce (Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1976)
  - Hans Blumenberg – excerpts from Die Vollzähligkeit der Sterne (1997)
  - Ludwig Klages – “Mensch und Erde” (1913)
  - F. W. J. Schelling – miscellaneous letters following the death of Caroline Schelling in 1809
  - Dominique Auffret – excerpts from Alexandre Kojève: La philosophie, l’état, la fin de l’histoire (1990)
  - Alexandre Kojève – previously untranslated passages from the Introduction à la lecture de Hegel
  - Sylvain Lazarus – excerpts from Anthropologie du nom (1997)
  - Alain Badiou – D’un désastre obscur (1991)