The Weird invades from other reality systems, not other planets

Evidence

The Weird, however, depends upon the difference between two (or more) worlds — with “world” here having an ontological sense. It is not a question of an empirical difference — the aliens are not from another planet, they are invaders from another reality system. Hence the defining image is that of the threshold, the door from this world into another, and the key figure is the “Lurker at the Threshold” — what, in Lovecraft’s mythos is called Yog Sothoth. The political philosophical implications are clear: there is no world. What we call the world is a local consensus hallucination, a shared dream. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1104

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crisply distinguishes Weird from Fantasy (completed alternate world) and the Uncanny (our world estranged): the Weird is ontological pluralism via the threshold.
• XREF: The claim that ‘there is no world, only local consensus hallucination’ echoes the capitalist-realism hauntology threads across the whole book, and ch 34’s hauntology material. — connects to: Cultural invasion makes the invaded objects rather than subjects of their own reality. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 485

Broader Connections

• Cultural invasion makes the invaded objects rather than subjects of their own reality. #qualifies (0.75) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 485