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What exactly are the weird and the eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The weird and the eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The weird and the eerie both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling.
Perhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the weird and the eerie.
These two modes will be analysed with reference to the work of authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner, and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer, and Christoper Nolan.
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Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels.
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Incredible!
- De Erik McHatton en 02-27-23
De: Thomas Ligotti, y otros
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Illuminations
- Essays and Reflections
- De: Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history.
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finally
- De Anonymous User en 12-08-21
De: Walter Benjamin, y otros
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Society of the Spectacle
- De: Guy Debord
- Narrado por: Bruce T Harvey
- Duración: 3 h y 43 m
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This is the "Das Kapital" of the 20th century - an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the 21st century. This is the original translation by Fredy Perlman, kept in print continuously for the last 50 years, keeping the flame of personal and collective autonomy alive.
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Brilliant
- De Rachel en 08-28-19
De: Guy Debord
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
- A Contrivance of Horror
- De: Thomas Ligotti
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy.
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Sad and honest
- De Amazon Customer en 01-06-20
De: Thomas Ligotti
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Heaven in Disorder
- De: Slavoj Zizek
- Narrado por: Will Tulin
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos.
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Great book with very interesting political analysis
- De Nicholas en 01-21-22
De: Slavoj Zizek
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The Human Predicament
- A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
- De: David Benatar
- Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many people ask these big questions—and some people are plagued by them. Analytic philosophers have said relatively little about these important questions. The Human Predicament invites listeners to take a clear-eyed and unfettered view of the human condition.
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great book
- De Oyinda en 02-20-24
De: David Benatar
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Hauntology
- De: Merlin Coverley
- Narrado por: Alan Turton
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Ghosts and spectres, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of Hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s and has now entered the cultural mainstream as a shorthand for our new-found obsession with the recent past. But where does this term come from and what exactly does it mean?
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Great book and narrator — except for the accents
- De Meedo en 05-17-23
De: Merlin Coverley
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The Book of Disquiet
- De: Fernando Pessoa
- Narrado por: Adam Sims
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory. Credited to Pessoa’s alter ego, Bernardo Soares, who chronicles his contemplations in this so-called "factless" autobiography, the work is a journey of one man’s soul and, by extension, of all human souls that allow their minds and hearts to roam far and free.
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The book that saved my life
- De Hutchinson en 03-09-21
De: Fernando Pessoa
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Teatro grottesco
- De: Thomas Ligotti
- Narrado por: Alberto Caneva
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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Autore di culto della letteratura americana contemporanea, restio alle attenzioni dei media ma autenticamente seminale - suoi gli incubi che hanno ispirato la prima stagione di "True Detective" -, Thomas Ligotti è unanimamente considerato l'unico, grande successore di Edgar Allan Poe e H.P. Lovecraft.
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Not in English.....
- De Amazon Customer en 04-23-23
De: Thomas Ligotti
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The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
- A Novel
- De: Donna Freitas
- Narrado por: Kristen Sieh
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she’d take them, but didn’t. He promised before they got married that he’d never want children, but now he’s changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She's never wanted to have a child. The fight ends, and with it their marriage.
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Amateurish and Frustrating Book
- De Nerd en 06-04-21
De: Donna Freitas
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K-Punk: Music
- De: Mark Fisher
- Narrado por: Tom Lawrence
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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This selection of essays from K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) brings together the best of Fisher's political writing. In K-Punk: Music, Fisher seamlessly blends political theory with music analysis, discussing the impact of neoliberalism and related political ideologies on the music industry and major music events such as Glastonbury.
De: Mark Fisher
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
- De: Slavoj Žižek
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.
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Great Listen
- De Anonymous User en 04-17-21
De: Slavoj Žižek
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Weird and the Eerie
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- Shipwrecked
- 02-26-23
Worthwhile
Much of the book involves synopses of works of fiction or film (works mostly sci-fi or horror adjacent) but these are all interesting works, the summarizing is well done and to the point, and the accompanying analysis is always smart and thought provoking. Like all good criticism, the essays let you appreciate the qualities of the works discussed with a new clarity. Only wish it were longer.
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- Soula
- 02-15-20
highly recommended
I already had the book and was excited to see it on audible. hopefully they bring all of the late Mark Fisher’s books to audible, soon. His views on music, movies, literature are very interesting and deserve a read or listen.
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- Tezby
- 07-21-21
Eerie, weird
Mark Fisher explores the intriguing relationship between presence and absence in an often unusual selection of pieces from literature, music and film. Starts in familiar territory with a discussion of Lovecraft and HG Wells, then veers off into much more idiosyncratic territory with The Fall’s Grotesque: After The Gramme. The book is at its best when it successfully navigates these intriguing connections. The narration is also excellent.
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- Nicholas
- 01-18-22
Classic Mark Fisher!
If you like mark fishers approachable style, his politics and philosophy you will enjoy this book. If you don’t know mark Fisher I would recommend starting with capitalist realism. This book provides a great analysis of horror, sci-fi and uses critical theory and psychoanalysis to analyze what’s makes stories weird or eerie. It’s a quick read and lot too dense or theoretical.
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- J.F. Quackenbush
- 08-20-20
Beware the Mispronunciation of names!
the criticism here is really strong and interesting. there are places where i want to object to an error or something I see as misconceived. thats high praise for how engaging this is.
However, there are a few places where mispronunciations really start to grate. "Borges" is easily the most coarse. really almost gave up on listening to it during one section.
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- SLV
- 01-02-20
clear but mispronounced
the narrator gives a clear and fittingly eerie tone, but mispronounces many of the names, which is always a problem, and especially in a critical text
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