Daniel Otto Jack Petersen

Daniel Otto Jack Petersen has posted a video on Lafferty’s Holocaust denial, and I think he does an excellent job of framing its relevance to the issues he examines critically. I’m glad to see the topic being addressed outside my own hobby project. As I see it, the three most challenging issues for those who take Lafferty seriously as an artist are his theory of history when measured against his ideas about world creation after the death of the novel, his parthens, and his ethnoessentialism. A mature discussion of these concerns will deepen our understanding of what Lafferty achieved, why he remains significant today, and how to take him seriously as a person who can inspire future art and difficult thought—not merely as an entertainer working in a much-maligned genre.