Paul Watson’s posts tagged “New Weird”

Paul Watson liked Toward a Theory of the New Weird: Elvia Wilk on a Feminist Understanding of Eerie Fiction

If living in a new weird ontology is the only way for people to keep living, what do we want to keep of ourselves? What does coexistence look like when coexistence requires deconstructing the self on a cellular level? Is it possible to consent to, and then claim agency over one’s own dissolution?
Posted 25^th January 2024, 13:21 (Europe/London time)
- New Weird
- Utopias
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Paul Watson liked The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine

From this perspective, VanderMeer’s New Weird is to science fiction what mysticism is to theology. Like mystical texts throughout the ages, his Weird does not explain; it attempts to get at something beyond the explainable.
Posted 25^th January 2024, 13:14 (Europe/London time)
- New Weird
- Religion
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