🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
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🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
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#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #TransModernism
A Snake's Head. A Sullen Lady. A Leper's Bell. What is so unsettling about the fritillary – a flower where gender, ecology, and creepiness converge?
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🌾 Margin or Morass? Reading Binary Trans Ecological Poetics in Vita Sackville-West’s The Land (1926) and ‘Portrait of a Marriage’ (1921)
Jenny Scoones & Laura E. Ludtke @jennyscoones.bsky.social
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Through Darkest Dungeon, Cugini, Hardwick, and Rodda rethink the ecological entanglement or horror, where flesh refuses to stay bounded and life keeps creeping.
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
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🩸 ‘Fusing itself together in the darkness’: Queer Flesh and Inheritance Horror in Darkest Dungeon
@mostlyvoids.bsky.social
Elia Cugini, Alecto Hardwick & Mar A. Rodda
What happens when inheritance horror is also queer ecology?
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🎨 Featuring original illustrations by Imogen Foxell and Shari E. Ross. @imogenfoxell.bsky.social
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
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Reading S. Ansky's The Dybbuk, Lyman explores creepiness as supernatural, bodily, gendered, playful, and profoundly relational.
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👰 ‘A Dybbuk Has Entered the Body of the Bride’: Creepiness-as-Affect in S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk
Lyman Gamberton
“What’s creepy about a dybbuk?” It transgresses every boundary it can find.
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Broken doll. Buried doll. Dummy. Frau Mann. Kate-the-Doll. The Last… “What is this article-in-doll's-clothing for?”
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
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Oldham’s meditation on Barnes’s Nightwood explores collecting, intimacy, animation, and the uncanny through an unfinished catalogue of creepy dolls.
🪆 Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and the Creepy Doll: A Collection
Julyan Oldham
What is more unsettling than one creepy doll? An unfinished collection.
In this arresting lyrical essay, Streffen reimagines autocorrect as an uncanny companion, exploring digital intimacy, desire, and the ghosts that linger in our everyday technologies.
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
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📱 “The Erotic Hauntology of Autocorrect”
Isabella Streffen @minxmarple.bsky.social
What if autocorrect wasn’t correcting you, but haunting you?
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What happens when monstrous bodies refuse to stay bounded?
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
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Reading Love Lies Bleeding through queer ecology, Friars and Cameron argue that the film models “a form of bodily bonding between women that is fluid, if not ‘creepy,’ in its efforts to disturb and dissolve boundaries between bodies and their environments.”
🌵’Au naturel, baby!’: Monstrous Urban Ecologies in Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Rachel M. Friars & Brooke Cameron
Steroids. Desire. Ecology. What happens when the boundaries between bodies and environments begin to dissolve?
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More posts to this #CreepStudies and #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness mega thread today! Featuring @lejhouston.bsky.social and K Angel.
For Houston and Angel, some forms of knowledge become available only once we stop merely talking about creeps and fully become creep.
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
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Houston and Angel develop a neuroqueer, autoethnographic account of creepiness from the inside, transforming a "too-close reading" of J. G. Ballard's Crash into a methodology for "talk[ing] about creeps."
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🎶 Psychopathic Hymn for the Creeps: Neuroqueering Creepiness from the Inside
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston & K Angel
What if “creep” wasn’t a label but an assignment to embrace?
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