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Coogan draws on recent work in speculative realist philosophy to provide a reading of Twin Peaks: The Return in which the fates of its characters are defined as much by human agency and relationships as they are by the quasi-agency of the non-human object world. From its mystical artifacts to the objectification of its characters, Coogan argues that Lynch’s world is one which rejects the correlationism of phenomenological thought and embraces a perspective which draws out the non-human world and puts it on equal footing with human experience.
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Coogan, R. (2019). ‘Here’s to the Pie That Saved Your Life, Dougie’: The Weird Realism of Twin Peaks. In: Sanna, A. (eds) Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04798-6_9
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