Nilgun Bayraktar is Associate Professor of Film History, Theory, and Criticism in the History of Art and Visual Culture Program and Film Program at ​the California College of the Arts, USA.Alberto Godioli is Associate Professor in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Programme Director of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Fear of the Strange: On Weird Ontologies and Eerie Agencies.- 3. The Upside Down of an Italian Summer: Human-Nonhuman Enmeshment and Defamiliarization in Michele Mari’s Verderame.- 4. Making the Strange Familiar: Getting Intimate with Toxicity.- 5. Weirding Europe: Fiction and Ghostliness as Grammars of Resistance in Kivu Ruhorahoza’s Europa, “Based on a True Story” (2019) and Recent Protest Events.- 6. Joking Against Humanity? Dark Humor and (De)familiarization.- 7. Familiarly Strange/Strangely Familiar: Humor and Contemporary Artists from Turkey.- 8. Ostranenie, “The Montage of Attractions” and Early Cinema’s “Properly Irreducible Alien Quality”.- 9. Mind the Gap! Towards a Transdisciplinary Theory of Aesthetic Negativity.- 10. Cultural Physics of Defamiliarization, Learning, Consciousness, and Metaphors.- 11. Strangers in Paradise: Migrant Figurations in Media Culture.- 12. “Inside - Out” and “Making Strange” by the Stranger.

Nilgun Bayraktar is Associate Professor of Film History, Theory, and Criticism in the History of Art and Visual Culture Program and Film Program at ​the California College of the Arts, USA.Alberto Godioli is Associate Professor in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Programme Director of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Fear of the Strange: On Weird Ontologies and Eerie Agencies.- 3. The Upside Down of an Italian Summer: Human-Nonhuman Enmeshment and Defamiliarization in Michele Mari’s Verderame.- 4. Making the Strange Familiar: Getting Intimate with Toxicity.- 5. Weirding Europe: Fiction and Ghostliness as Grammars of Resistance in Kivu Ruhorahoza’s Europa, “Based on a True Story” (2019) and Recent Protest Events.- 6. Joking Against Humanity? Dark Humor and (De)familiarization.- 7. Familiarly Strange/Strangely Familiar: Humor and Contemporary Artists from Turkey.- 8. Ostranenie, “The Montage of Attractions” and Early Cinema’s “Properly Irreducible Alien Quality”.- 9. Mind the Gap! Towards a Transdisciplinary Theory of Aesthetic Negativity.- 10. Cultural Physics of Defamiliarization, Learning, Consciousness, and Metaphors.- 11. Strangers in Paradise: Migrant Figurations in Media Culture.- 12. “Inside - Out” and “Making Strange” by the Stranger.

Nilgun Bayraktar is Associate Professor of Film History, Theory, and Criticism in the History of Art and Visual Culture Program and Film Program at ​the California College of the Arts, USA.Alberto Godioli is Associate Professor in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Programme Director of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Fear of the Strange: On Weird Ontologies and Eerie Agencies.- 3. The Upside Down of an Italian Summer: Human-Nonhuman Enmeshment and Defamiliarization in Michele Mari’s Verderame.- 4. Making the Strange Familiar: Getting Intimate with Toxicity.- 5. Weirding Europe: Fiction and Ghostliness as Grammars of Resistance in Kivu Ruhorahoza’s Europa, “Based on a True Story” (2019) and Recent Protest Events.- 6. Joking Against Humanity? Dark Humor and (De)familiarization.- 7. Familiarly Strange/Strangely Familiar: Humor and Contemporary Artists from Turkey.- 8. Ostranenie, “The Montage of Attractions” and Early Cinema’s “Properly Irreducible Alien Quality”.- 9. Mind the Gap! Towards a Transdisciplinary Theory of Aesthetic Negativity.- 10. Cultural Physics of Defamiliarization, Learning, Consciousness, and Metaphors.- 11. Strangers in Paradise: Migrant Figurations in Media Culture.- 12. “Inside - Out” and “Making Strange” by the Stranger.