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Re: Ruinenlust and Weird Fiction
Thanks for this most interesting series.
As a lover of ruins and industrial waste myself, I wonder have there been any psychological or cultural studies into the phenomenon? I wonder is there a technical name for it: Ereipiaphilia perhaps? I was toying with topophilia, but topos is more broad and already in use, it seems. I also wonder if the phenomenon is more widespread amongst those individuals who are deeply alienated from their fellow humans and find more emotional traction in ruins and desolation, and the non-threatening and timeless atmosphere of such places. | |||||||||||
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01-28-2017 | #22 | |||||||||||
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Re: Ruinenlust and Weird Fiction
Fantastic series of articles, by the way. | |||||||||||
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Re: Ruinenlust and Weird Fiction
And since we are already discussing Gunia, here is the remaining article in question: Ruinenlust in Weird Fiction #8: Wojciech Gunia Malone, this is actually something I was hoping to find when I was looking for articles for the introduction to the series, but I could find any psychological study of the phenomenon. The link between Ereipiaphilia (to use the term you coined) and depression would also provide some very good material for a study. | |||||||||||
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Re: Ruinenlust and Weird Fiction
I think lovers of ruins exhibit certain common psychological traits and aesthetic predilections. Obviously more scholars and artists are drawn to ruins and I have yet to meet someone really happy and really successful that truly cares about visiting crumbling temples and overgrown colonial graveyards. I don't think you have to be alienated to be attracted to the decayed and the desolate, but you must have some sort of score to settle with your life and times. Perhaps it is not that dissimilar to loving weird fiction, it also requires a strange mix of addiction and resignation. | |||||||||||
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Re: Ruinenlust and Weird Fiction
This is lovely, thank you. I've always been drawn to all things worn, whether it be lo-fi music, broken pianos, broken people or forgotten graveyards. I can still recall some days of youthful playfulness where my friends and I would just run around Nashville with no purpose other than to search for the broken remnants of once lively spaces. No real reason other than to sit in peaceful silence. Funny how that translates perfectly to the internal , solitary processes of my current self. The silence these places create in their surroundings is very attractive to me and therapeutic.
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01-30-2017 | #26 | |||||||||||
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Re: Ruinenlust and Weird Fiction
Painfully expensive, but those who have enjoyed this thread and have more disposable income than I may find this book interesting, The Aesthetics of Decay:
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01-30-2017 | #27 | |||||||||||
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Re: Ruinenlust and Weird Fiction
And I have just managed to track down this article, in which the author actually uses the word "Ruinlust"! More about the book in the following interview with the author: source: http://www.readysteadybook.com/Artic...age=dylantrigg | |||||||||||
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Re: Ruinenlust and Weird Fiction
I haven't had the chance to read all of the articles yet, so I apologize if this has already been mentioned. I am reading Bruno Schulz The Street of Crocodiles. In the introduction by David A. Goldfarb:
"Shulz maintains that, when viewed through the 'poetic' imagination, any degraded scrap of reality- anything that might be found in the world's tandeta, a Polish word describing goods that are shoddy, cast off, second-rate, or trashy- might reveal the qualities of the sublime." | |||||||||||
Given enough time we all become psychopomps.
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-- THE STREET OF CROCODILES Translated from Polish by Celina Wieniewska source: http://www.brunoschulz.org/10-street-of-crocodiles.htm | |||||||||||
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02-11-2017 | #30 | |||||||||||
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Re: Ruinenlust and Weird Fiction
This video was posted elsewhere in response to my Ruinenlust series:
Here Slavoj Žižek employs his own psychoanalytic term "the Inertia of the Real" (the mute presence beyond meaning) and uses the graveyard of disused aircraft in the Mojave desert to illustrate his take on the subject from the perspective of capitalism. | |||||||||||
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