Mark Fisher's 'The Weird and the Eerie' Revisited with Matt Colquhoun
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The Politics of the Weird in the Year
The weirdness of the object is something that changes your categories and it raises the principles of what you think the object is meant to be. Capital has definitely been trying to recuperate the sense in which we can sort of show the weirds of the supermarket checkout, because if you go to some pound-and-stores,. they have them. They've replaced the place of free-balands robotic, inhuman sounding, deeps and boops with people like fucking Yoda. So they're already trying to rehumanize it in this gimmick of the recognizable pop cultural edipalized kind of face. But I think Adam, you wanted to say something too. It sounds of the politics
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