{"id":845,"date":"2025-03-04T15:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/?page_id=845"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:11:55","slug":"new-weird","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/index.php\/new-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>New Weird book club\/Lesezirkel \u2013 venturing into &#8220;new weird&#8221; and contemporary surrealist stuff, all about weirding nature, weirding human nature, weirding tech<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our idea of &#8216;weird&#8217; is pretty open, we certainly do not want to follow a canon here. We&#8217;re interested in books that have a certain surreal quality, which can manifest either as magic, horror, shifts\/rifts in the fabric of the real. Or tentacles. We&#8217;ve also called it contemporary fantasy, which gets us close but not really to the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words: this is much more about exploring genres and our reading interests than narrowing things down and finding definitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>einmal im Monat trifft sich eine lose Runde von LiebhaberInnen des (neuen) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_weird\">Weirden<\/a> in der Literatur zum Austausch (jeweils am ungef\u00e4hr zweiten Sonntag des Monats, um 16h &#8211; Lekt\u00fcre zwingend!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>next up: to be discussed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>schon gelesen: <br>Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation<br>J.G. Ballard, The Crystal World<br>Isabel Waidner, Sterling Karat Gold<br>N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became<br>Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories<br>Joy Williams, Harrow<br>Chantal-Fleur Sandjon, City of Trees<br>Dorothee Elmiger, Die Holl\u00e4nderinnen<br>Samanta Schweblin, Seven Empty Houses (short stories)<br>Trailor Sparks, Das Wort f\u00fcr Zuhause ist Feuer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wir diskutieren, inspirieren, konspirieren &#8211; und kontaminieren uns mit neuen Ideen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/new-weird-new-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/new-weird-new-crop.jpg 590w, https:\/\/symbiont.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/new-weird-new-crop-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Weird book club\/Lesezirkel \u2013 venturing into &#8220;new weird&#8221; and contemporary surrealist stuff, all about weirding nature, weirding human nature, weirding tech Our idea of &#8216;weird&#8217; is pretty open, we certainly do not want to follow a canon here. We&#8217;re interested in books that have a certain surreal quality, which can manifest either as magic, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/index.php\/new-weird\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weird Book Club&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-845","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/845\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/symbiont.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}