Anthology/Matt

Film Criticism, Academic Papers, Experiments and Semi-Truth Stories of Writer Matt Shadbolt

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The Thing Richard Told Me

The Thing Richard Told Me

The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower

The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower

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Who Do We Become When We Talk to the Machine?

Aug 2, 2025

Who Do We Become When We Talk to the Machine?

Aug 2, 2025

Aug 2, 2025

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Lanterns, Not Suns: How Opera Can Thrive in the Age of Generative AI

Lanterns, Not Suns: How Opera Can Thrive in the Age of Generative AI

Reviving the Miscellany: Anthology/Matt as a Twenty-First-Century Memex

Reviving the Miscellany: Anthology/Matt as a Twenty-First-Century Memex

Slash-Brand Architecture: A Formal Analysis of the /Matt Constellation

Between Lightning and Ledger: The Lexical Dialectic Powering Matt Shadbolt’s Digital Persona

Between Lightning and Ledger: The Lexical Dialectic Powering Matt Shadbolt’s Digital Persona

Multiple-Self Signalling: An Academic Analysis of Matthew Shadbolt’s 1998 – 2025 Citation Ecology

Multiple-Self Signalling: An Academic Analysis of Matthew Shadbolt’s 1998 – 2025 Citation Ecology

Dust, Drought & Destiny: How a Three-Year Climate Shock Set the Stage for the Anglo-Zulu War

Dust, Drought & Destiny: How a Three-Year Climate Shock Set the Stage for the Anglo-Zulu War

The Pirates Of Hart Island

The Pirates Of Hart Island

They Only Play Minor Chords In Hell

They Only Play Minor Chords In Hell

Film & Television Criticism

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We Live In Time’s Silent Grief of Being Forgotten

We Live In Time’s Silent Grief of Being Forgotten

The Curtain Falls Twice: Nesting Performance in The Last Showgirl

The Curtain Falls Twice: Nesting Performance in The Last Showgirl

Remembrance As Resistance: I’m Still Here

Remembrance As Resistance: I’m Still Here

Plan 75’s Choices: Where Life Happens For You, Not To You

Plan 75’s Choices: Where Life Happens For You, Not To You

Grasp The Nettle! The Wondrous Balderdash of Baron Munchausen

Grasp The Nettle! The Wondrous Balderdash of Baron Munchausen

We Argue About It Still: The Virgin Suicides’ Still Point Of The Turning World

We Argue About It Still: The Virgin Suicides’ Still Point Of The Turning World

I Want 'Em Conscious And Talkative: The Long Good Friday

I Want 'Em Conscious And Talkative: The Long Good Friday

The Rain’s Misery & Majesty: The Fallen Priest of Godland

The Rain’s Misery & Majesty: The Fallen Priest of Godland

A Strangled Truth: Fear & Desire in Hitchcock’s Rope

A Strangled Truth: Fear & Desire in Hitchcock’s Rope

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: It Is The Cause, Not The Death, That Makes The Martyr

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: It Is The Cause, Not The Death, That Makes The Martyr

More War Than Peace

More War Than Peace

The Greatest Movie Never Made

The Greatest Movie Never Made

My Heart’s Memory Turns To You: Derek Jarman’s Blue

My Heart’s Memory Turns To You: Derek Jarman’s Blue

You Only Pretend To Care: Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home

You Only Pretend To Care: Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home

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The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower

The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower

Death to the MVPs: The Problem with Shipping Skeletons

Death to the MVPs: The Problem with Shipping Skeletons

The Fog Is the Feature: Finding Opportunity in Cultures of Ambiguity

The Fog Is the Feature: Finding Opportunity in Cultures of Ambiguity

How To Be A Great Product Manager

How To Be A Great Product Manager

When Your Best Decisions Are The Ones Others Make For You

When Your Best Decisions Are The Ones Others Make For You

The Freedom Of The Worst Day Of Your Life

The Freedom Of The Worst Day Of Your Life

When Work Stops Being The Work

When Work Stops Being The Work

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The Thing Richard Told Me

Aug 24, 2025

The Thing Richard Told Me

Aug 24, 2025

Aug 24, 2025

Experiments & Generative Laboratory

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Who Do We Become When We Talk to the Machine?

Who Do We Become When We Talk to the Machine?

Lanterns, Not Suns: How Opera Can Thrive in the Age of Generative AI

Lanterns, Not Suns: How Opera Can Thrive in the Age of Generative AI

When the Book Talks Back: How AI Might Turn Novels into Living Conversations

When the Book Talks Back: How AI Might Turn Novels into Living Conversations

The Left Peg: A Quiet Horror of Vengeance

The Left Peg: A Quiet Horror of Vengeance

Reviving the Miscellany: Anthology/Matt as a Twenty-First-Century Memex

Reviving the Miscellany: Anthology/Matt as a Twenty-First-Century Memex

Slash-Brand Architecture: A Formal Analysis of the /Matt Constellation

Between Lightning and Ledger: The Lexical Dialectic Powering Matt Shadbolt’s Digital Persona

Between Lightning and Ledger: The Lexical Dialectic Powering Matt Shadbolt’s Digital Persona

Multiple-Self Signalling: An Academic Analysis of Matthew Shadbolt’s 1998 – 2025 Citation Ecology

Multiple-Self Signalling: An Academic Analysis of Matthew Shadbolt’s 1998 – 2025 Citation Ecology

The Red-Wired Future of Wrath of the Machine: How Bungie’s SIVA Plague Foreshadowed 2025’s Rise of Programmable Self-Assembly

The Red-Wired Future of Wrath of the Machine: How Bungie’s SIVA Plague Foreshadowed 2025’s Rise of Programmable Self-Assembly

Unknown Pleasures, Silver Screens: How Joy Division’s Sparse Filmography Became a Masterclass in Sonic Story Architecture

Unknown Pleasures, Silver Screens: How Joy Division’s Sparse Filmography Became a Masterclass in Sonic Story Architecture

Dust, Drought & Destiny: How a Three-Year Climate Shock Set the Stage for the Anglo-Zulu War

Dust, Drought & Destiny: How a Three-Year Climate Shock Set the Stage for the Anglo-Zulu War

Charting the Enigmatic Nine: How Destiny 2’s Next Expansion Rewrites an Egyptian Creation Myth

Charting the Enigmatic Nine: How Destiny 2’s Next Expansion Rewrites an Egyptian Creation Myth

It’s Complicated

It’s Complicated

The Fragility of Human Dependence: Speculating Beyond ‘Time Enough at Last’

The Fragility of Human Dependence: Speculating Beyond ‘Time Enough at Last’

Academic Papers

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The Role of Religion in Greek and Roman cities

The Role of Religion in Greek and Roman cities

The Integration of Economic Activities in the City of Delos

The Integration of Economic Activities in the City of Delos

Singular or Plural: The Greekness Forged in Faith

Singular or Plural: The Greekness Forged in Faith

The Price of Immortality: Rhetoric and Reality in Pericles’ Funeral Oration

The Price of Immortality: Rhetoric and Reality in Pericles’ Funeral Oration

The Violence of Hope

The Violence of Hope

Positive Obsession

Positive Obsession

An Open Letter To Grieftech Investors

An Open Letter To Grieftech Investors

Auspicious Advertising: The Russian Thirst For Reincarnation

Auspicious Advertising: The Russian Thirst For Reincarnation

What Is Culture?

What Is Culture?

Embracing The Soil Which Grows The Best Version of Me

Embracing The Soil Which Grows The Best Version of Me

Hubris & Parable At Isandlwana

Hubris & Parable At Isandlwana

Enough with the Remakes & Reboots

Enough with the Remakes & Reboots

Serendipitous Discovery

Serendipitous Discovery

Participatory Futures

Participatory Futures

Semi-Truths & Stories

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The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower

The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower

The Fog Is the Feature: Finding Opportunity in Cultures of Ambiguity

The Fog Is the Feature: Finding Opportunity in Cultures of Ambiguity

Too Quick For His Own Good: Temper And Tension Between Horace Smith-Dorrien And The British Army

Too Quick For His Own Good: Temper And Tension Between Horace Smith-Dorrien And The British Army

How To Be A Great Product Manager

How To Be A Great Product Manager

A Life In Art

What Have I Done

What Have I Done

The Boy With The Dip

The Boy With The Dip

I Remember

Those In Coach Were The First To Go

Those In Coach Were The First To Go

A Journey From There To Here

A Journey From There To Here

When You Fell Asleep Forever

When You Fell Asleep Forever

The Ten Year Cycle

The Ten Year Cycle

On Surviving: Why I’m Still Here

On Surviving: Why I’m Still Here

There Are Stories About What Happened… What Star Wars Means To Me

There Are Stories About What Happened… What Star Wars Means To Me