really loved the symbolism of when you disappeared at the end, and the music really fit perfectly with the theme. Also loved your point about how eco-fascism naturalises capitalism as fundamental part of human nature, when actually capitalism is the virus - not humans! Great video!
Re-watching this nearly 2 years on, your analysis on COVID perhaps leads to an even greater encounter with the 'wierd' than when I first watched it. Having passed through that moment, remembering the capitalist realist 'reality management' of those early moments, and how it came tumbling down, and everything that has followed this specific moment.
With the short sentence 'the weird is not horrific itself, but reveals the horror [of the world]' something finally clicked for me about the genre magic realism. Instead of 'normal' realism these novels/art pieces use the magical and weird to highlight the underlying horror or puzzling nature of the world and humans. Very interesting exploration of agency, capitalism and horror!
Dang dude, I've just started planning my PhD and Fisher's definitions of the Weird and the Eerie fit perfectly with Pathologic 2 and Kentucky Route Zero, respectively. Post-industrial Russia and America, haunted by futures that never arrived, abandoned by the present. In Pathologic 2's case, the arrival of a virus and the subsequent breakdown of an unprepared society; in Kentucky Route Zero's case, capital's abandonment of the rustbelt once it'd found cheaper lands and labour overseas. Both stories seem fitting for our times.
@@JonTheLitCritGuy Can't wait. What field did you study in? I think I'm going to be co-supervised between media studies and english ✊ Super into the posthumanism stuff.
Great video! There was a whole lot to think about here. The connection you’ve made with the black hole photo and the unseeable eerie being revealed is great! Maybe your reading about Berger at the end is a hint at how we may move forward from this?
My favorite lines in the video: “What gives the capitalist city its eerie nature at the moment is the absence of the thing that gives it meaning: working people.” Horning's comparison to the ruin porn of '80s malls is very apt. (Significantly, though, our coronal ruins don't have an the aesthetic in-the-pastness that can allow them to be held at a distance.) “We would like to think that all that’s happened is that the world has been paused, that these cities are just waiting for us to go back to them, that the eerie could be dispelled. But these cities are haunted…” “…living… in a world which no longer seems to fit, in an eerie calm which might allow us to glimpse an outside to the decaying world of capital that surrounds and entombs us.” Interesting the recurrent intuitive notion that we are dead in life during this period of time. I suppose it can be chalked up to the sense of physical stasis as well as the loss of solid future plans for many. Still, we are capable of a different kind of enjoyment if we do not deny the situation we are in by waiting for something better to come along, waiting for the resuscitation of our old lives and old futures. Also, can I sample this in a rap? I'll credit you in the soundcloud/bandcamp description? Anyway look forward to more videos!
Im not sure if you are still reading comments on your videos but I'm curious if you have ever read any of Fabio Vighi's work or seen any of his videos. Different take than yours but a lot of potential for cross fertilization. Mark Fisher I would say sits easily right between your two views, a shared territory on the venn diagram. His book Unworkable pursues some of the same concerns that you raise. He really pulls on thread of Finance Capital, and props up his theory mostly on Hegel, Lacan and Baudrillard. Appreciate your thoughtful analysis, will check out more of your content.
great video! :D I'm always glad to see your work. I'm wondering, just since it popped into my mind, how much or how productive it would be to compare Baudrillard's conceptions of simulation vs dissimulation to Fisher's Weird and Eerie? I think simulation and dissimulation would create the conditions for the eerie, rather than the Weird. If Baudrillard asserts that we live in the fourth order of images, where everything is a reproduction with no original and no resemblance to a 'Real,' then someone happening upon that discovery might come face-to-face with the eerie feeling of 'Well, what then is all this?' anywho, thanks for making this!
really loved the symbolism of when you disappeared at the end, and the music really fit perfectly with the theme. Also loved your point about how eco-fascism naturalises capitalism as fundamental part of human nature, when actually capitalism is the virus - not humans! Great video!
Thank you so much for watching ❤️
Great video, audio needs to be a little louder though.
each audio track needs to be normalized theyre all different volumes
Definitely seconded. The volume of the background music made it hard to parse out the speech.
Re-watching this nearly 2 years on, your analysis on COVID perhaps leads to an even greater encounter with the 'wierd' than when I first watched it. Having passed through that moment, remembering the capitalist realist 'reality management' of those early moments, and how it came tumbling down, and everything that has followed this specific moment.
Very happy to have discovered this channel. Great job!
Thank you! Hope you enjoy my upcoming work!
Another great one Jon, so pleased to be a part of it (while introducing your audience to a monosyllabic pronunciation of the word 'terror' :/ )
With the short sentence 'the weird is not horrific itself, but reveals the horror [of the world]' something finally clicked for me about the genre magic realism. Instead of 'normal' realism these novels/art pieces use the magical and weird to highlight the underlying horror or puzzling nature of the world and humans.
Very interesting exploration of agency, capitalism and horror!
i hope your platform grows! this is good coverage!
Thanks so much watching!
Pls invest in a really good microphone and edit the audio nice! Audio is 80% of the importance !
Superb video! Never thought about the distinction between the weird and the eerie quite like that before 🤯
I really recommend the book by Fisher - changed how I think about a whole lot of Gothic studies :)
Dang dude, I've just started planning my PhD and Fisher's definitions of the Weird and the Eerie fit perfectly with Pathologic 2 and Kentucky Route Zero, respectively. Post-industrial Russia and America, haunted by futures that never arrived, abandoned by the present. In Pathologic 2's case, the arrival of a virus and the subsequent breakdown of an unprepared society; in Kentucky Route Zero's case, capital's abandonment of the rustbelt once it'd found cheaper lands and labour overseas. Both stories seem fitting for our times.
You might have hit on two games on my list of things I want to cover on this channel 🤣
@@JonTheLitCritGuy Can't wait. What field did you study in? I think I'm going to be co-supervised between media studies and english ✊ Super into the posthumanism stuff.
Great! Thank you, that was really good.
Great video! There was a whole lot to think about here. The connection you’ve made with the black hole photo and the unseeable eerie being revealed is great! Maybe your reading about Berger at the end is a hint at how we may move forward from this?
...could be...
Great video!
Thank you!
Is the volume low??
Will be fixed on the next video, I'm still learning!
My favorite lines in the video:
“What gives the capitalist city its eerie nature at the moment is the absence of the thing that gives it meaning: working people.”
Horning's comparison to the ruin porn of '80s malls is very apt. (Significantly, though, our coronal ruins don't have an the aesthetic in-the-pastness that can allow them to be held at a distance.)
“We would like to think that all that’s happened is that the world has been paused, that these cities are just waiting for us to go back to them, that the eerie could be dispelled. But these cities are haunted…”
“…living… in a world which no longer seems to fit, in an eerie calm which might allow us to glimpse an outside to the decaying world of capital that surrounds and entombs us.”
Interesting the recurrent intuitive notion that we are dead in life during this period of time. I suppose it can be chalked up to the sense of physical stasis as well as the loss of solid future plans for many. Still, we are capable of a different kind of enjoyment if we do not deny the situation we are in by waiting for something better to come along, waiting for the resuscitation of our old lives and old futures.
Also, can I sample this in a rap? I'll credit you in the soundcloud/bandcamp description?
Anyway look forward to more videos!
Of COURSE! Thanks so much for watching!
Interesting and somehow hopeful take on the current crisis. Thanks for the fascinating analysis and the "weird theory" reading list!
Thank you so much for watching! Interesting and hopeful is always what I'm going for 😁
Great video. I just wish the audio was louder
Im not sure if you are still reading comments on your videos but I'm curious if you have ever read any of Fabio Vighi's work or seen any of his videos. Different take than yours but a lot of potential for cross fertilization. Mark Fisher I would say sits easily right between your two views, a shared territory on the venn diagram. His book Unworkable pursues some of the same concerns that you raise. He really pulls on thread of Finance Capital, and props up his theory mostly on Hegel, Lacan and Baudrillard. Appreciate your thoughtful analysis, will check out more of your content.
Would love to see what your thoughts on this topic are now, four years later. I wonder if youtube allows you to express them, lol
The proficy of Horus and the great re Seth love this thanks ☺️
great video! :D I'm always glad to see your work.
I'm wondering, just since it popped into my mind, how much or how productive it would be to compare Baudrillard's conceptions of simulation vs dissimulation to Fisher's Weird and Eerie? I think simulation and dissimulation would create the conditions for the eerie, rather than the Weird. If Baudrillard asserts that we live in the fourth order of images, where everything is a reproduction with no original and no resemblance to a 'Real,' then someone happening upon that discovery might come face-to-face with the eerie feeling of 'Well, what then is all this?' anywho, thanks for making this!
please fix the sound, otherwise its a real good video
I'm working on it, promise.
@@JonTheLitCritGuy I'm looking forward to the next video. Stay safe, greetings from Berlin
too quiet, but good
Great
Looks like my kind of thing, but I'm afraid I find the music too distracting.