Lovecraft’s work and techniques of bricolage loom large within Ccru: Writings 1997-2003. Consider for a second how many librarians have had to patiently explain that the Necronomicon is in fact not real and you start to get the idea. One can find many varied discussions of hyperstition on the internet but in a nutshell hyperstition was the idea of fictional qualities that make themselves real, combining the words hyper and superstition to suggest how a fictional idea can take hold in reality. The collective mirrored its time by focusing on cyberfeminism, jungle music, post-structuralism, science fiction, and a theory developed from the techniques of H.P. In the mid-nineties a student-run interdisciplinary collective was established out of the University of Warwick’s philosophy department called the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (Ccru), founded by Sadie Plant and Nick Land. Over time Lovecraft’s oeuvre has proven a rich source of inspiration for both social critics and philosophers from Deleuze and Guattari on. Here once again we will make a slight change of course but as William de Kooning once said, “I must change to stay the same.” For this review we are leaving the realm of fiction to explore the last work of noted critic and philosopher Mark Fisher and his book, The Weird and The Eerie.
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