The Weird and the Eerie

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Pumpkin_Spice18 января 2018 г.
"There are no ghosts in these machines. Man is matter, and matter rots." Yet Parkin's own statement establishes that there are ghosts in the machine, that a certain kind of spectrality is intrinsic the the speaking subject. After all, who is it who can talk of having no inside, of man being rotting matter? Not any substantial subject perhaps, but the subject who speaks, the subject, that is to say, composed out of the undead, discorporate stuff of language.
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Pumpkin_Spice18 января 2018 г.
Free will is missing, or at least radically compromised. Human freedom is very different from "free will", and can only be asserted if it recons with agencies that belong primarily instead to (unconscious, mythic) structures that draw power from people that they abduct into themselves.
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Pumpkin_Spice18 января 2018 г.
It is not clear that "repeating" is the right word here, though. It might be better to say that the myth has been re-instantiated, with the myth being understood as a kind of structure that can be implemented whenever the conditions are right. But the myth doesn't repeat so much as it abducts individauls out of linear time and into it's "own" time, in which each iteration of the myth is in some sence always the first time. Here the myth would be something like the fatal compulsive pattern.
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