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2024Friday 27th SeptemberPanel 4Warhammer 40k

A healthy obsession with death? Finding the joy in a grimdark world

The concept of death, as expressed in games and other fictions, is not necessarily negative. It does not play the same role, or pose the same threat, as death for us, in the physical world. But few intellectual properties revel in the exploration of death in the way that the Warhammer 40k setting does. Whether …

2024OnlinePanel 18Saturday 28th SeptemberWarhammer 40k

“Ask Not Why, Just Do”: The Eerie Agency of the Imperium of Man

Warhammer 40,000 is by the admission of its creators, a satire of Britain in the 1980s. It is a representation of a squalid, sprawling failed empire, where human life has ceased to matter as anything other than oil for the machinery of a broken state. In this talk I will characterise this satire using the …