Week 13 (1): Fever Dream (Schweblin)
Hi everyone! I am so shocked that our last week is here! I hope that everyone has had a really good term and wishing you all the best of luck on any exams or papers that you guys have left! This week I chose to read “Fever Dream” by Samanta Schweblin. I personally, like Jon briefly mentioned in the lecture, found it so disorienting. The lack of chapters and context within the book made me really struggle to keep reading and follow along. However, that being said, I think I still enjoyed it? Honestly, the whole time while reading and then after listening to Jon’s lecture I just kept thinking about this film course I’m in this term. The course is about the Anthropocene in Asian and Australian cinema, and I felt like a lot of the films that I watched in this course reflect this disorienting experience, whether through narrative or visuals. Particularly there was this one super low-budget horror film titled Three Days of Darkness. The majority of the film was almost in comple...