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Death by Landscape
Death was in every fibre of these creatures. It was hidden in their languages and at the root of their civilizations. You
Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs
Death is everywhere, oppressive and beautiful.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
she uses the language of gaming to produce a profound and together mind-blowing reflection of the new contemporary climate condition. In her hands, the video-game becomes the most radical and powerful form of ecological speculation
Anthony Van Den Bossche • «Writing as pollinating», a conversation with Alice Bucknell
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A biologist enters mysterious territory on a mission to comprehend the incomprehensible. Together with three colleagues—an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor—she crosses an imperceptible border into a region known as Area X. They are the twelfth expedition to cross the border. They are all women.
e-flux • The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine - Journal #92
Stuart Evans added
Jeff VanderMeer charts Area X's impossible terrain in his Southern Reach trilogy. The first book of the series, Annihilation, flirts with various genre conventions but warps and refracts them. Most often, VanderMeer is cited as a foremost writer of the New Weird, which, in the tradition of Lovecraftian Old Weird, deals with the wonder and horror at... See more
e-flux • The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine - Journal #92
Stuart Evans added
nuanced ecologies of being and identity.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
occult