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2024OnlinePanel 15Saturday 28th SeptemberWarhammer 40k

Who is the enemy? Genestealer Cults and the Diverging Political Paradigm of Warhammer 40,000

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We examine how class issues, domestic terrorism, extremism, and insurrection play out in Warhammer 40,000’s Genestealer Cults, against changing British political paradigms between 1989 and 2021. Genestealer Cults are human-alien hybrid guerilla insurrectionists, concealed among the civilian population. Introduced in 1989 and rebooted in 2016, the Cults are both part of the native population and …

2024Friday 27th SeptemberPanel 7Warhammer 40k

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only politics? Warhammer 40k for a school-based look at Carl Schmitt’s unfolding concept of the political

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Abstract The universe of Warhammer 40k seems to have reached the stage in the permanent war for pure survival that Carl Schmitt would understand as a completely political world. Friend and foe can be clearly distinguished as a dichotomy inherent in politics. The distinction is clear, even clearer than in the Middle Ages, armour, weapon …