Author Archives: crblerer
Tempest of Industrial Abnature: On John Ruskin’s “Storm-Cloud”
Lerer Long Presentation Tempest of Industrial Abnature: On John Ruskin’s “Storm-Cloud” Today I will be discussing John Ruskin’s late work Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century. The text consists of...
Astrophobia II: Clark Ashton Smith
Astrophobia II: Clark Ashton Smith Lovecraft’s colleague and protege, Clark Ashton Smith, presents a more complex case. In Smith’s poem “Desire of Vastness,” the poetic persona wishes to possess...
Astrophobia I: H.P. Lovecraft
Astrophobia I: H.P. Lovecraft In a 1957 essay on UFOs, Roland Barthes critiques the contemporaneous depiction of Martian civilization as “implicitly endowed with a historical determinism modeled on that...
Paul Scheerbart, Gallery of the Beyond
Gallery of the Beyond (1907) Written and Illustrated by Paul Scheerbart For my presentation, I would like to introduce the short text “Gallery of the Beyond” by the German...