The Outer Dark presents “Deterministic Landscapes: The Role of Psychogeography in Weird Fiction” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by F. Brett Cox and featuring Julie C. Day, Craig Laurance Gidney, Jess Lewis, Henry Ward, and Heinrich Wilke. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 20, 2022.
Show Notes
The Outer Dark presents “Deterministic Landscapes: The Role of Psychogeography in Weird Fiction” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by F. Brett Cox and featuring Julie C. Day, Craig Laurance Gidney, Jess Lewis, Henry Ward, and Heinrich Wilke. In literary criticism, psychogeography explores how the physical environment impacts the mind and behavior of the individual. The claustrophobic density of the city, the homogeneity of suburban developments, the vast isolation of the deep woods, Antarctic ice, or open ocean. What horrors emerge when we make a wrong turn or enter an unfamiliar environment? What madness follows when we attempt to exist in places not meant for human occupation? Our panelists discuss the role of place as a driver of psychology and narrative in Weird film and literature. Be sure and scroll down to the Additional Links for reading and viewing recommendations! Thank you to Niels Hobbs, K.H. Vaughan, Catherine Grant, and all the fabulous NecronomiCon 2022 team for allowing us to air this podcast’s content, which was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 20, 2022.
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Additional Links
LISTEN: TOD 113 State of The Weird Roundtable 2022
LISTEN: TOD 120 Publisher Spotlight: NO Press and Mooncalves
Art Term: Psychogeography (Tate Museum)
London: A Biography by Peter Ackroyd (Doubleday, Publishers Weekly)
Missionaries to the Wilderness A History of Land, Identity, and Moral Geography in Appalachia by Jill Fraley
‘The Sky-Eaters’ Nest’ by Jess Lewis (Solarpunk Magazine 3, May 2022)
‘As the Crow Flies’ by Jess Lewis (hypenpunk.com)
‘The Time Walkers’ by Jess Lewis (forthcoming in Kaleidotrope)
Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (Vintage International, 1991)
A Spectral Hue by Craig L Gidney (Word Horde 2019)
Alan Garner (Harper Collins Author blog)
The Situationists (The Anarchist Library)
The Man Whom the Trees Loved by Algernon Blackwood (GoodReads)
Space and Place by Yi-Fu Tuan (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)
‘Watson’s Boy’ in Contagions and Other Stories by Brian Evenson (Astrophil Press, 2011)
Area X Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer (Macmillan, 2014)
J.G. Ballard (Fantastic Fiction)
High-Rise by J. G. Ballard (Biblio, Flamingo Modern Classic)
The Bungalow House by Thomas Ligotti (Pseudopod, 2013)
Berkeley Square (1933, trailer)
Daughters of the Dust (1991, director: Julie Dash)[trailer]
Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa (Picador, 2013)
The City We Became by N.K. Jemison (Orbit, 2020)
The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson (Wikipedia)
From Hell by Alan Moore (Biblio)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (Biblio)
Show Credits
Hosts/Producers: Scott Nicolay and Anya Martin
Co-Host, News from The Weird: Justin Steele
Co-Host, Reviews from The Weird: Gordon B. White
Symposium Assistant Director: Melanie Crew
Symposium Programming Coordinator: Jess Lewis
Symposium Logistics: Melissa Eisner
Logo Design: Nick “The Hat” Gucker
Music: Michael Griffin