Edith Lyre

Edith Lyre is an MPhil Researcher at the University of Adelaide. A founding member of the Adelaide Uni Writers’ Group and editor of its associated magazine, Hum, she elects the literary arts as her vehicle to convey the forgotten and the unforeseen – that is to say, the repressed and the negotiably real.

Articles by Edith Lyre:

Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020 · Philosophy

President Oedipus, or the democratisation of schizophrenia

Edith Lyre

Edith, please don’t call it that anymore. Accelerationism has stopped being the focus of the group. He’s in a group-chat right now, he messages, where they’re organising a new name for the meetings. Witch-House Social Club is winning. Accelerationism’s not an okay thing to believe. The Metro cancelled us. (Their cancellation took form in an article, published 18 March, carrying the title: What is ‘Accelerationism’, the belief followed by the New Zealand terror attacker?) We’re just a club for people who like witch-house.