Both are fascinated with what lies outside ordinary experience in terms of perception, thought and experience - they both suggest a fascination that causes apprehension and dread. Obviously the weird and the eerie are both preoccupied with the strange. It's instructive as a music journalist to study these terms closely, as to be a music journalist means - 9 times out of 10 - to misuse language. a rich seam of cultural production that is undeniably part of the mainstream but easily retains its weirdness and eeriness, undimmed by repetitive viewing, reading or listening. It's the power and familiarity of the source material that gives the book some of its immediacy. As befits a new work by the author of the essential Capitalist Realism it's a great read and sets out its stall clearly by dealing with some of the most unnerving, discombobulating and transcendent fiction, film and music of the 20th Century. Now it's 2017 and renowned author, political theorist and cultural critic Mark Fisher is asking us (in his new book for Repeater, The Weird And The Eerie) to consider the two similar but distinct modes: that of the 'weird' and the 'eerie'. Then we just about survived the 'unheimlich' versus 'uncanny' wars with nothing to show for it bar PTSD and a gnawing sense that something wasn't quite right. When tQ started nearly nine years ago it were all 'liminal' round these parts.
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