Posts tagged The Crying of Lot 49
Against “Solving” Media
Against “Solving” Media

The root of this, I believe, lies in the privileging of “realism” over other modes of expression in aesthetics. By this, I mean the idea that art is supposed to be a mimetic reproduction of things that would “really happen”. Leaving aside, of course, the number of really-occurring events that get you treated as insane if you acknowledge.

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Commentary, Written by: CameronCameron SummersArt, Criticism, Horror Vanguard, Hiroki Azuma, John Carpenter, Mark Fisher, Literary Theory, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Mark Z. Danielewski, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49Comment
Interrogating the Immanent: Mapping the Weird Procedural
Interrogating the Immanent: Mapping the Weird Procedural

What I'm getting at here isn't just the juxtaposition of a classic mystery genre with the weird but something that emerges from that juxtaposition, and what it says about us and the world that we live in.

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Analysis, Book reviews, Game Reviews, Literary Theory, Written by: Cameron, TelevisionCameron SummersDisco Elysium, The Weird, Jeff VanderMeer, China Miéville, Finch, The City and the City, Twin Peaks, David Lynch, Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes, Stranger Things, True Detective, The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon, The Weird Procedural, postmodernism, organizational behaviorComment