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Abstract: From Deleuze’s reworking of Kantian schematisation to Mark Fisher’s theorisation of the weird and the eerie to the “zone” trope in contemporary science fiction, this essay examines ‘pathological’ productions of space and time first as rhythms, and then as sites of dread and desire. This paradoxical affect is owed to their alien, other, or “outside” status relative to, following Kant, the universal and homogenising “inside” of anthropic temporal succession and spatial co-existence. Their danger is apparent from the outset and yet they carry an irresistible allure for the various figures - professors, stalkers, scientists, tourists and travel guides - who find themselves under their spell. Functioning variously as alternative economies of material goods and genetic information, these alien rhythms concern transformation above all else. A transformation that involves great risk. But such is the cost of novelty. |
