Nicholas Crawford
Nicholas Crawford

 Nicholas Crawford is a philosopher who pursues death drive and its undead correlates. He studied English at Vassar College and completed his master’s degree at the University of Virginia. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children.

Where We've Made It Dark

An impossible coming of age with nothing left to come of age to

Summer vacation comes against the hard real of zombies, and Imogen’s fun of zombie talk and apocalypse preparation comes horribly still as the real-life fantasy object keeps on. The world ends before undead reach her door, and what Imogen faces makes her choose the unthinkable: to leave her family in the apocalypse.

The Last of Us meets Severance...

Other Writing

I don’t believe that any artist has ever engaged so directly with ontology and subjectivity’s role in it as David Lynch. And the stunning fact is...

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It’s not hard getting to the what-you’re-supposed-to-think of things. It’s apparent in every exchange we have, the quiet presuppositions that...

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Season 2 of House of the Dragon stays on the acute difficulty of living within one’s social coordinates. Instead of intrigue and conflict we get an...

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