Day: March 31, 2019

Bloomsbury’s final secret

Bloomsbury’s final secret Strachey was incubating the idea of writing a series of portraits of Victorian writers and worthies – the germ of ‘Eminent Victorians’. To Virginia Woolf, November 8, 1912 Is it prejudice, do you think, that makes us hate the Victorians, or is it the truth of the case? They seem to me…

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Bergson on Consciousness & Memory

“If you abolish my consciousness … matter resolves itself into numberless vibrations, all linked together in uninterrupted continuity, all bound up with each other, and traveling in every direction like shivers. In short, try first to connect together the discontinuous objects of daily experience; then, resolve the motionless continuity of these qualities into vibrations, which…

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Eugene Thacker – Weird, Eerie, and Monstrous: A Review of “The Weird and the Eerie” by Mark Fisher

Eugene Thacker – Weird, Eerie, and Monstrous: A Review of “The Weird and the Eerie” by Mark Fisher Fisher’s interest in Lovecraft stems from this shift in perspective from the human-centric to the nonhuman-oriented – not simply a psychology of “fear,” but the unnerving, impersonal calm of the weird and eerie. As scholars of the…

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