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Location
Weatherford, Oklahoma
Document Type
Paper
Event Website
https://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-54.htm
Start Date
24-7-2026 4:30 PM
End Date
24-7-2026 5:20 PM
Description
My research intends to bring Mark Fisher’s 2012 definition of Hauntology into conversation with the sci-fi journey in Tamsyn Muir’s Harrow the Ninth and its titular character. Using the lens of this Mythcon 54 to focus on the physical and parallel mental journey of Harrow, the physical journey traveled tracks and maps the “lost future” of the world’s inhabitants and questions the extent to which the physical road traveled can mask or hide its destructive inception. “The River” and road traveled in the novel are the result of catastrophic consumption and transformation of the Solar System by the novel's Emperor. To create a universe without billionaires that would leave all the inhabitants of Earth to die, a man becomes god, killing everyone and later re-animating them as gifts. The road Harrow must travel is one that mirrors her birth and subsequent acts of violence, resulting in psychotic breaks while on the journey. I will touch on Muir’s use of psychosis and the haunted body and form as an extension of the road traveled in the novel. I also use, amongst other essays, Kier-La Janisse’s House of Psychotic Women to explore the doubling and sometimes tripling of the consciousness/body/spirit. In my proposed presentation, I would like to explore the use of madness as not only a journey through the mind but a method of facing and reconciling a haunted future. In Harrow, these are irrevocably intertwined.
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Haunted, Will Travel: “divided, fractured, and barely legible” The Nightmare-Self in Harrow the Ninth
Weatherford, Oklahoma
My research intends to bring Mark Fisher’s 2012 definition of Hauntology into conversation with the sci-fi journey in Tamsyn Muir’s Harrow the Ninth and its titular character. Using the lens of this Mythcon 54 to focus on the physical and parallel mental journey of Harrow, the physical journey traveled tracks and maps the “lost future” of the world’s inhabitants and questions the extent to which the physical road traveled can mask or hide its destructive inception. “The River” and road traveled in the novel are the result of catastrophic consumption and transformation of the Solar System by the novel's Emperor. To create a universe without billionaires that would leave all the inhabitants of Earth to die, a man becomes god, killing everyone and later re-animating them as gifts. The road Harrow must travel is one that mirrors her birth and subsequent acts of violence, resulting in psychotic breaks while on the journey. I will touch on Muir’s use of psychosis and the haunted body and form as an extension of the road traveled in the novel. I also use, amongst other essays, Kier-La Janisse’s House of Psychotic Women to explore the doubling and sometimes tripling of the consciousness/body/spirit. In my proposed presentation, I would like to explore the use of madness as not only a journey through the mind but a method of facing and reconciling a haunted future. In Harrow, these are irrevocably intertwined.
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythcon/mc54/schedule/7
