The Weird and The Eerie

Inspired by Mark Fisher’s posthumous book.

Fisher describes the weird and the eerie as having a preoccupation with ‘the strange’, which is to say: “a fascination for the outside […] that which lies beyond standard perception, cognition and experience.”

“The weird is constituted by a presence – the presence of that which does not belong.”

“The eerie, by contrast, is constituted by a failure of absence or by a failure of presence. There is something where there should be nothing, or there is nothing where there should be something.”

Yohann Koshy summarises the...