That’s Weird (Hypertiling Fabio on Miéville, Lovecraft, and Meillassoux)

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Books, China Miéville, City & The City, darkness, Embassytown, Fiction, H. P. Lovecraft, Kingston University, metaphors, philosophy, Science fiction, uncategorized, Weird fiction, weirdness

Yesterday I’ve listened to the recording of China Miéville‘s talk at Kingston University on ‘The Weird’ in fiction and politics (by the way, I’m not sure who runs the Backdoor Broadcasting Company, but they have my deepest respect for what they do). Given my sceptical stance towards the porting of weird tropes and language from fiction to non-fiction (including politics and philosophy) I was somewhat prejudiced, and was expecting, from Miéville, an all-round defense of all things weird. I was wrong.

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