The Weird and the Eerie
by Mark Fisher · first published 2017
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I highly reccomend The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher. He's talking most about horror and strangeness in kterature and film, but I think it still applies to this. One is a presence of something that should not be there and the other is an…
on “The "uncanny" is the experience of a loss of control” ↗If anyone wants more discussion on weird fiction, I'd recommend Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie. It's a fairly short but interesting read and not particularly political like most of his writing is.
on “We shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever: On weird fiction” ↗My favorite of his works is The Weird and the Eerie. Capitalist Realism is good/important for making some of Gramsci's ideas more accessible to a contemporary and non-academic audience, but it's not as original.
on “Mark Fisher’s “K-punk” and the futures that have never arrived (2018)” ↗…mass media that is constantly extending itself retroactively into the past as well?” This is not shade on you. I myself love all kinds of vaporwave, probably to a fault. I think this is part of why The Weird and the Eerie was tough to read for me- you can tell Mark was exasperated about things that should not be juxtaposed. And I can’t help but think these “un-pasts” were probably an obstacle to improving the present.
on “Mark Fisher’s “K-punk” and the futures that have never arrived (2018)” ↗