
Leon Kato
Leon is a Dutch social scientist and co-host of the leftist media-and-theory podcast The Left Page & Here Be Media, and has appeared as a guest on the Acid Horizon philosophy podcast.
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Sep 24, 2026
Grimdark Dialectics: Hegel and the Philosophy of Warhammer 40K
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33:46AdamHOST
the conscience, the conscience of society's institutions such that people would ever bother to find themselves as, as, as willing to perpetuate them.

Leon KatoGUEST
It is very pleasant and maybe not entirely accidental that our story starts with this propagandistic order of reminiscence which passes as a, uh, you know, historians in these worlds.

Leon KatoGUEST
And, uh, you know, Hegel had also a couple of things to say about his- history, and, uh, you know, as, as one of the fundamental tools to make sense of our place and time of society.

Leon KatoGUEST
And I think to also touch upon and try and conjoin that with the point of no subjectivity for the Emperor.

Leon KatoGUEST
I mean, if we go by a, an initial reading of the Emperor, it, it is entirely by design.
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But no one's like, "I wanna get, I wanna read the book of Vader," and be like, "You know what? This is fucking sick, this is." Whereas with 40K, there is absolutely a way in which one can really get sucked in that kind of subjectivity and even have, even, and, even if you haven't interacted with the game in the c- in the case of, yes, God Emperor Trump, which I guess in some extent is kind of an attempt to make him someone who isn't a subject, because if he is, then mother of God.