The Weird and the Eerie

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1. viccisJul 2026
   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.
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2. printrrrJun 2024
   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 absence of something that should.

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3. NoGravitasMar 2022
   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.
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4. pizzaMar 2022
   Re: nostalgia for when you were not yet born: things like that, with the hyperaestheticism etc, are designed to be ‘coded’ (ie comprised of referential symbols) in the alphabet of “your imagination of that time”, which was pressed into your thoughts via social influence. It is an affirmation of what you’ve been told that time was really like- so it seems like a refuge or safe haven where everything makes sense. In some sense, they are like, well, bait- it’s like “well mass media that can operate during the present is not enough. How about a 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.

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