Post-Weird - Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream

Post-Weird explores communities formed when authority and meaning collapse, drawing parallels between serpent-handling churches, conspiracy theorists, pro-anorexia forums, and pseudoscientists. Dr. Matheson critiques their rigid worldviews and advocates for rethinking rhetoric as an approach to navigating the world's ambiguity and uncertainty.
 

List of contents

Contents 

Introduction 
Chapter 1: Psychosis
Chapter 2: Conspiracy
Chapter 3: Serpent-Handlers
Chapter 4: Anorexia
Chapter 5: Blood
Chapter 6: Revisiting Psychosis
Conclusion 

Acknowledgments 
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Calum Lister Matheson is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh and faculty at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of Desiring the Bomb: Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age (2019).

Product details

• Authors: Calum Lister Matheson
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.11.2025
• EAN: 9781978840164
• ISBN: 978-1-9788-4016-4
• No. of pages: 210
• Weight: 454 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories