The Outsider from Dishonored levitating in the Void, surrounded by fragments of broken reality.

The Outsider Can't Stop Watching: Dishonored, Retromania, and the Loop

Is the Void just a magical dimension, or a cosmic server room? This essay deconstructs the lore of Dishonored through the lens of Simon Reynolds’s ‘Retromania’ and Mark Fisher’s ‘Hauntology’. We explore why the Outsider is the ultimate curator of a looping past and why Billie Lurk’s [ERASE] was the only way to find a future.

April 11, 2026 · 20 min · Seditious Thoughts