To illustrate this, he discusses the fiction of America author H. “ It involves a sense of wrongness a weird entity or object is so strange that it makes us feel that it should not exist, or at least it should not exist here.”įisher defines the weird and ‘that which does not belong’ - something which elicits the sense of ‘wrongness’ in the quote above. This piece is a short outline of a few of those overlaps. I think it is a great book, no doubt partly as I enjoy a good sci-fi or fantasy tale.Īs I was re-reading it recently, it struck me that there are overlaps with what Fisher identifies as key aspects of both the weird and the eerie, and key aspects of our experiences of sound and the sonic. In his book the ‘The weird and the eerie’, Mark Fisher discusses what constitutes the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ by analysing a number of novels, movies and records.
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