Mark Fisher's 'The Weird and the Eerie' Published in Italian by minimum fax

The Italian translation of Mark Fisher's final book 'The Weird and the Eerie' has been released by minimum fax, translated by Vincenzo Perna with an afterword by Gianluca Didino. Fisher, a member of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) and author of the K-Punk blog, explores how modernity has derailed under technological acceleration. The book is structured around two categories: the weird and the eerie. The weird, rooted in H.P. Lovecraft's fiction, is defined as something that transforms a common object into a thing both terrible and fascinating. Fisher applies this to contemporary phenomena like Trump, populism, Putin, and fake news. He cites the post-punk band The Fall, particularly their album 'Grotesque (after the gramme)', and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's TV film 'World on a Wire' as examples of the weird. The eerie, by contrast, is an aesthetic experience arising from the altered landscape of the Anthropocene, where automation blurs the boundaries of the human. The book also references David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Inland Empire'. Fisher's earlier work 'Capitalist Realism' is noted as foundational. The volume costs €17 and runs 172 pages.