Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
reflecting the Freudian model of existence that, according to Nelson, “turns our lives into detective stories; our innermost selves, into culprits.”
Alice Bolin • Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
The detective and the dreamer cobble things together from whatever lies nearby,
Maggie Nelson • Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull ShortLit)
The idea that the world we experience is a solipsistic delusion projected from the interior of our mind consoles rather than disturbs us, since it conforms with our infantile fantasies of omnipotence; but the thought that our so-called interiority owe its existence to a fictionalized consensus will always carry an uncanny charge.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
Sometimes the bizarre makes more sense than reality.
ZINE • Creepy & Paranormal As Cultural Control
the somewhat undefinable, unstable feeling of realness, wherever it lays and however it can be expressed these days