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SOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY. We have lost a part of ourselves, our
history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it
again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch.
This is the horror of the abject. Following the success of Comma's
award-winning New Uncanny anthology, The New Abject invites leading
authors to respond to two parallel theories of the abject - Julia
Kristeva's theory of the psychoanalytic, intimate abject, and
Georges Bataille's societal equivalent - with visceral stories of
modern unease. As we become ever-more isolated by social media
bubbles, or the demands for social distancing, our moral gag-reflex
is increasingly sensitised, and our ability to tolerate difference,
or 'the other', atrophies. Like all good horror writing, these
stories remind us that exposure to what unsettles us, even in small
doses, is always better than pretending it doesn't exist. After
all, we can never be wholly free of that which belongs to us.
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