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 Last Updated January 2015


Books: 

Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why They Don't Do It Like They Used To (2014)


Movies:


+1 (2013): The Self-Eating Ouroboros of the American Cul-de-Sac

28 Days Later (2002): The Decapitation of the Social Body and the Return of the Primal Flow


After the Dark (2013) – Extreme Philosophy, Dead Students, and the Useless Usefulness of Thinking

The Aggression Scale (2012): Implosion of the Machine

Alien (1979) : Mechanosphere and Terminal Flows

Amélie (2001) Machine-Made Love

An American Werewolf in Paris (1997) - Lycanthropic Lines and Libidinal Labyrinths

Antichrist (2009): The Limits of Psychoanalysis

As Above, So Below (2014): The Ghost Is the House


Battle Royale (2000) : Necropolitics of Youth


Black Christmas (2006): The Machine of the Attic

The 'Burbs (1989) How White Flight Deterritorializes Desire into the Fetish of the Neighbor's Corpse


Cabin in the Woods (2012): When Desiring-Machines Demand the End of the World.

Carrie, (2013) Plugging Up the Flows: Telekinetic Resistance and the Abject Body

Confessions (2010) – Viral Childhood, Revenge Pedagogy, and the School That Eats Its Young

Coraline (2009): The Rectal Passage of Desire

The Crucible of Horror (2025): The Oedipal Machine, the Spectre of the BwO, and the Failure of Molecular Revolution


Devil's Due (2014) The Bridal Machine and the Paranoiac Production of the Anti-Christ

Doctor Strange 2015 - Freud, Dreams, and the Dark Dimension's Desiring-Machines

Double Exposure (1982) The Molecular Shock of the Bag


Edge of Tomorrow (2014) – Live, Die, Conform: Capitalist Heroism

Evil Dead (2013): Chainsaws, Black Holes, and Trauma

The Eye (2002): How To Teach A Dead Woman’s Eyes To See Capitalist Ghosts


Final Destination (2002): The Cosmic Accountant

FRONTIERS (2007): Incising the Fascist BwO

Frozen (2013): The Perverted Desiring-Machine

Final Destination 3 (2006): The Horror of Ontological Debt

Friday the 13th (1980) – You Let Him Drown: Shame, Desire, and Jason Voorhees

Ginger Snaps (2000) A Cartography of Teeth and Flow

Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed (2004): The Lycanthropic Line of Flight: Why Your Best Case Scenario Involves Eating Sh*t

Goodbye World 2014 The Terminal Failure of the Symbolic The Terminal Failure of the Symbolic

The Green Inferno (2015): The Body as Territory

Green Room (2016): PUNK'S LAST STAND

Gremlins (1984): Planned Obsolescence, Cultural Imperialism, and the Xenophobic Commodity

Grace (2009) Maternal Becoming and the Theological Failure of the Paranoiac Machine
Grimm Love (2006) - The Absolute Flux

Grimm Love (2006) Cannibalism as the Absolute Love-Machine: The Final Deterritorialization of the Oedipal Compact

Grotesque (2009) Anti-Oedipus: Why the Torturer is the Ultimate Functionary of Capitalist Desire.


Halloween (2007) Michael’s Revolt Against the Oedipal Apparatus

Halloween II (1981) – You Don’t Know What Death Is: The Slasher, the State, and the Suburban Nightmare

Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (2009) The Clinic, the Slaughterhouse, and the White Horse

The Hills Have Eyes (2006) – Fathers, Fallout, and the American Dream

The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) – When the Battlefield Is the Drill: Mutants, Soldiers, and the Desert’s Body‑without‑Organs

The Hitcher (2007): The Contradiction in the Machinic Axiom

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) How Capital Turns Deterritorialized Desire into a Circus of Compliance.


III (2016) - Dissecting Trauma, Guilt, and Resistance

IT (1990/2017): The Derry-Machine and the Cannibalistic Re-Territorialization of the American Pastoral


Jason X (2001) Camp Crystal Lake: Where Grief Becomes a Production Line

Julia (2014) – Guerrilla Flesh and Communist Revenge


Mama (2013): Spectral Attachment and Oedipal Failure.

Martyrs (2008) – Doubt Without God: Martyrdom, Psychosis, and the Cruel Optimism of Transcendence

The Mist (2007) - Thanatos in the Fog

Mother's Day (2010) The House that Autocratics Built


Natural Born Killers (2001) And The Myth of Order

Neighbor No. 13 (2005): How To Grow A Ghost Inside A Boy And Call It Masculinity


Oculus (2013): Desiring-Machines, Mahāyāna Emptiness, and the Domestic Panopticon

Oldboy (2003) – The Teeth of Memory: A Man Devoured by His Own Cause

The Orphan Killer (2011): The Circuit of Rage


Paprika (2006) – Dream Theft, Capitalist Insomnia, and the Murder of the Analyst

Pieces Of Talent (2014): The Psycho-Economic Violence of The Fix-It Axiom


Resolution (2012) – The Cabin That Watches Back: Trauma, Addiction, and the God of Stories

Rinne / Reincarnation (2005) – When Someone Else’s Sins Wear Your Face


Saw (2004): The Necrotic Circuit

Saw II (2005) – The Carceral Alchemist: Revenge, Reform, and Ruin

Saw III (2006) – The Machines of Grief: Jigsaw’s Clinic of Impossible Choices

Saw IV (2007) – The Gospel According to a Jigsaw

Saw V (2008) – Capitalism’s Quiet Arsonists and the Communion of Cut Corners

Scenic Route (2013): Desert of Desire

Scream 4 (2011) – The Knife That Writes the Rules and The Franchised Slasher God

Superman (2025) – The Selfie as Line of Flight: Eve Teschmacher’s Sabotage of the Super-Subject

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Revisionist Mythology and the Carceral State

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) – The Tofu That Refuses to Forgive: Vengeance as a Broken Machine


Teeth (2007) The Schizo-Fissure in the Oedipal Reactor: How the Vagina Dentata Refuses the Logic of Castration and Enacts Absolute Deterritorialization

Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013): The Inheritance of Madness


When Harry Met Sally... (1989): The Fantasy of Closure

Where the Wild Things Are (2009): Dissolution of the Oedipal Environment

The Woman (2011) The BwO Biting Back: The Paternal Machine, Molecular Revolt, and the Aesthetic of Nihilistic Inscription



Under the Skin (2013): The Molecular Disintegration of the Anthropomorphic Facade



You're Next (2011): Insurrection Against the Neuroticized Socius



TV:

Pokémon / Power Rangers (1995-2000) The Biopolitical Capture of Children’s Desire: How the Abstract Machine Trains the Body-without-Organs for Capital


The Walking Dead

Schizoanalysing TWD S1E1 ‘Days Gone Bye’

Schizoanalysing TWD S1E2 "Guts"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S1E3 Tell It To The Frogs

Schizoanalyizing The Walking Dead S1E4 Vatos And The Schizo-Prophet

Schizoanalyzing TWD S1E5: – 'Wildfire' The Necropolitical Drain

Schizoanalyzing TWD S1E6 The Axiomatic Collapse of the Body-Machine and the Craving for Final Stratification

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E1: The Gastro-Anal Deficit and the Problem of Necrotic Flow—A Definitive Argument on the Zombie Pooping

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E2 The Purging of Paternal Humors, The Anti-God Bullet, and the Over-Pressurized Molar-Body

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E3: The Abstract God-Machine and the Psycho-Political Failure of Faith

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E5 "Chupacabra"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E6 "Secrets and Lies"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E7 "Pretty Much Dead Already"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E8 "Nebraska"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E9 "Triggerfinger"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E10 "18 Miles Out"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E11 "Judge, Jury, Executioner"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E12 "Better Angels"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S2E13 "Beside the Dying Fire"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E1 "Seed"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E2 "Sick"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E4 "Killer Within"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E5 "Say the Word"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E6 "Hounded"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E7 "When The Dead Come Knocking"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E8 "Made to Suffer"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E9 "The Suicide King"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E10 "Home"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E11 "I Ain't a Judas"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E12 "Clear"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E13 "Arrow on the Doorpost"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E14 "Prey"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E15 "This Sorrowful Life"

Schizoanalyzing TWD S3E16 "Welcome to the Tombs"



One Shots 

Assault on the Senses: My Night at Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare

The Calculus of Public Sacrifice: Ritual and Spectacle in Jackson's "The Lottery" and South Park's "Britney's New Look"

The Consuming Dead: Zombie Cinema as a Diagnostic of Ideology and Commodity Fetishism in Late Capitalism

Ditching Gods, Embracing Grammar: A Foxhole Skeptic on Tolkien’s Linguistic Obsession

Gore, Greed, and Gritted Teeth: A Survivor’s Report from Flashback Weekend Chicago 2016

Guarding Chaos

How to Watch a Film Like a Schizoanalysis

Rust, Rails, and the Civilian-Family Machine

Screaming Into the Void: Exotype and the Evolution of Musical Subcultures


Interviews:

Lucky McKee and Chris Siverton Interview: All Cheerleaders Die (2014)

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