"With the intention of upsetting, disturbing, or confusing the audience"

Weird Nonfiction: A longish, difficult-to-summarize, impressionistic, and highly readable essay that addresses such topics as simulation theory, boundary eradication, and early and latter-day examples of "[w]orks that are about the real world or some subject within it but also question their container or their ability to be about that thing—or which veer from the thing at hand toward the cosmic, horrifying, or absurd."

Weird nonfiction shirks fantasy for the real world in much the same way that modern leftists have dropped the sloganeering of the 1960s in favor of concrete action. For those attuned to the occult and unreal aspects of being alive, “genre” fiction is no longer adequate. Creative world-building must be applied more violently to our own reality. Weird nonfiction is dreamlike, but urgent, cutting in its humor and suggestion. Even Philip K. Dick died believing his books were coming true.

I don't remember Clayton Purdom's name, but a Google search shows that he's written articles for some publications that I read regularly. Must pay more attention to bylines!