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Interviewing the author of Weird Studies/Neighbor George and "The Secret Life of Puppets" which I guess I have to read. They say it was foundational to what WS is doing, which I think means that it advanced the talking of the supernatural in a somewhat-respectible academic contexts. Not sure how I feel about that.
She is an "unabashed supernaturalist" and objects to translating things into "mechanical terms". Some of this sounds like "how to be a bit weirder than humanities departments will allow" which is not a topic of interest to me.
The book itself
Seems focused on the idea that fiction contains a lot of the supernatural that was banished by enlightenment rationalism, like it proves something? I'm not sure what the implication is supposed to be. The persistence of religion does not prove the existence of god, although it does indeed say something about the human mind and how it operates.
What does it prove? That "materialism", or at least, versions of it, leaves out the transcendent and is in some sense a conspiracy against it. Whose side are you on?