Peer-reviewed academic publications are listed here. I write fiction and nonfiction; see below. 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
- “Eyes of Flesh, Eyes of Fire.” Forthcoming in Fierce Gardens of Paradise: Fragments on the Old Man of the Mountain. Edited by Alcebiades Diniz Miguel. Raphus Press, 2025.
- The Frost Crabs of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Short novel from Mount Abraxas Press (formerly Ex Occidente Press), 2024. 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. Now available in translation from Mercurio Books (Italian) and Raphus Press (Portuguese).
- “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. Also available as an independent reading by Mike Ream.
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- “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.
Published nonfiction
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- “Original sin and its photocopies: K. W. Jeter and theodicy.” Forthcoming.
- “Technically meat: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Tecnicamenta dolce and the Italian cannibal film.” Forthcoming.
- “The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals: William S. Burroughs and political theory.” Forthcoming.
- “Exoticism and indifference: reading Robert E. Howard via Victor Segalen.” Forthcoming.
- “In defense of pulp history: reading Harold Lamb via Walter Benjamin.” Forthcoming.
- “Theories of stupidity: insights from Thomas Bayes, Pierre Bayle, and Henri Bergson.” Forthcoming from DIFFRACTIONS (2025).
- “American psychogeography: Matthew Bartlett and the literary witch-cult.” Forthcoming (2025).
- “Gift of the gun: Zardoz and the origins of civilization.” Forthcoming from Vault of Culture (2025).
- “Vaporwave Megatext: Joe Casey and Jim Mahfood’s Miami Vice: Remix (2015).” Forthcoming from Utopia District (2025).
- “Stone pterodactyls: Alistair Rennie and the afterlife of the New Weird.” Forthcoming (2025).
- “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).
Published translations
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- Guillermo Samperio – “Borges, Escher, Lovecraft” (2006). From Spanish. Forthcoming in Dead Reckonings: A Review of Horror and the Weird in the Arts (Hippocampus Press).
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Unpublished translations
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- Emiliano González – “Rudisbroeck o los autómatas” (1978)
- Emiliano González – “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)
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