I am thrilled to announce the release of my latest book. Two in one day? I spoil you…
GLITCH: Superheroes and the Undead Life of Myth. isn’t an attempt to “take down” the genre or reveal it as secretly religious. Instead, it explores a colder, stranger reality: superheroes are what myth looks like after belief. They are narrative forms that perform mythic labour in a cultural landscape that no longer believes in the metaphysical structures that once authorized them.
So if you have ever wondered how reboots have replaced traditional metamorphosis.
How the multiverse presents a psychological model for modern identity.
Why the superhero persists as a broadcast signal that refuses to stay buried, or been plagued with perfectly normal thoughts about how cities like Gotham and Metropolis act as containers for unresolved collective trauma.
Then GLITCH is for you!
The gods may be gone, but the machinery is still running. This book is an invitation to stay with a form that refuses to end and to take seriously the fact that these stories continue to matter, even when the future they promised has failed to arrive.
GLITCH is available now from Dense Weed Books. Click here to buy
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