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  1. Hailing black holes: Rhetorical realism in the age of hyperobjects

    Article • Empedocles European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, December 2021, Intellect

    Brian Zager

  2. Killing Joke: Are You Receiving?, Jyrki ‘Spider’ Hämäläinen (2020)

    Article • Punk & Post Punk, June 2021, Intellect

    Brian Zager

  3. Once more and for eternity? Facing the horror of cosmic recurrence in Southbound

    Article • Horror Studies, April 2020, Intellect

    Brian Zager

  4. Book review: Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman, A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture

    Article • Crime Media Culture An International Journal, December 2019, SAGE Publications

    Brian Zager

  5. And now I become its mouth: On Arthur Schopenhauer and weird ventriloquism

    Article • Empedocles European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, June 2019, Intellect

    Brian Zager

  6. Born under a bad sign: On the dark rhetoric of antinatalism

    Article • Empedocles European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, May 2018, Intellect

    Brian Zager

  7. ‘A giant gutter in outer space’: Investigating pessimism as rhetorical action in True Detective

    Article • Interactions Studies in Communication & Culture, November 2017, Intellect

    Brian Zager

  8. Existence occulted: Rhetorical pessimism and the world-without-us

    Article • Horror Studies, April 2017, Intellect

    Brian Zager