The whole idea of a liminal space can be directly applied to Fishers concepts of the “Weird and the Eerie”.

“The feeling of the eerie is very different from that of the weird. The simplest way to get to this difference is by thinking about the (highly metaphysically freighted) opposition — perhaps it is the most fundamental opposition of all — between presence and absence.”

As we have seen, the weird is constituted by a presence — the presence of that which does not belong. In some cases of the weird (those with which Lovecraft was obsessed) the weird is marked by an exorbitant presence, a teeming which exceeds our capacity to represent it.

The eerie, by contrast, is constituted by a failure of absence or by a failure of presence. The sensation of the eerie occurs either when there is something present where there should be nothing, or is there is nothing present when there should be something.” -Mark Fisher

The importance of liminal spaces as memetic nonplaces is directly connected with the unconscious. These images are deeply familiar to some because no places have infiltrated our understanding of inhabited space under capitalism.

These places as “clipping spaces” as reference to video games illustrate a surreal understanding perhaps even an “intuition of the outside”. The outside as the forces of which restrict our phenomenological understanding of reality. These are still an attempt to...

Make sense of the outside, in other words, abducting or putting the outside in. My interest lies in this possible intuition, an intuition of these processes even “spaces” as something uncanny a #hyperstition that has all too real affects, these places not only make themselves,

“Real” but they have always been here from the start. The weird and the eerie not as ontological modes of being but aesthetic modes of understanding.

Capitalism creates these “monstrous” places because without them being habitable by entities they become non sensical spaces of excess. What’s the function of a shopping mall with no people? What’s the point of a multilevel parking lot if it’s empty? How much waste is created...

From an abandoned warehouse or retail store like Target? And yet it’s not that these empty places are part of “the outside” as mentioned but they are generated, always part of something we don’t fully understand. Parking lots are taken for granted until there’s no one there.

Covid-19 has only exacerbated the frequency in which images like the one presented are becoming more and more real. It’s not that these places exist in the imagination, we are always unconsciously aware that these places shouldn’t exist in the first place.

Another example of this would be urban spread of “Urban decay”, shopping malls, bowling alleys, small appliance stores all being uprooted by the spread of other business models like Amazon and internet shopping.

It’s weird and eerie in the most human and unhuman of ways possible an absence of the human, while simultaneously filled with the most inhuman of properties. A true Gothic Space.