The Weird and the Eerie

To celebrate 75 episodes of pure socialist republican slurry, we thought we would kick off Season 2 of Casement's Leftovers by returning to the man who first brought us all together: Mark Fisher. The Weird and the Eerie – published just weeks before Fisher's death by suicide in January 2017 – is a work of literary criticism that has always seemed strange to us. We get together to try to make sense of this final work, which brings us to conversations about the nature of reality, capitalism, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and everything in between. What is the "weird" and the "eerie"? Why does any of this matter? Cross the threshold and get weird with us. It's nice in here.

The rabbit killer did not eat for a week  
And no way he can look at meat  
No bottle has he anymore  
It could be his mangled teeth  
He sees jawbones on the street  
Advertisements become carnivores  
And roadworkers turn into jawbones  
And he has visions of islands  
Heavily covered in slime  
The villagers dance round pre-fabs  
And laugh through twisted mouths  
Don't eat, it's disallowed  
Suck on marrowbones and energy from the mainland

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