In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy): 1

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Yet, even if you are incredibly engaged and interested in this topic, you might still be disappointed by the repetitiveness of his analysis in this volume. Book Review Justin Davis October 12, 2020 In the Dust of this Planet, In the Dust of this Planet review, In the Dust of this Planet Eugene Thacker review, In the Dust of this Planet Eugene Thacker, Horror of Philosophy, Zero Books, nihilism, mysticism, horror, theology, philosophy, Horror of Philosophy Vol 1, black metal, demonology, existentialism, horror literature, 20th century philosophy, H. The philosophy of horror” suggests an attempt to philosophize about horror, perhaps by looking for its essential characteristics in various experiential, literary and cinematic forms.

v=2IW8OK4_1gQ Other writing by Eugene ThackerTwo more in the series Horror of Philosophy – April 2015:•[ Zero Books ] Starry Speculative Corpse Horror of Philosophy vol.Chapter One is structured around an initial quaestio (question) followed by an articulus (articulation of themes), sed contra (counterarguments) and finally a responsio (response to the counterarguments). The cover of In the Dust of this Planet can be seen in a New York gallery, on a banner at the 2014 Climate Change march in New York and on Jay-Z's back promoting Run. In general, In the Dust of This Planet is more like a grab bag of ideas than it is a cohesive philosophical text. Ultimately Thacker argues for a skepticism regarding "life": "Life is not only a problem of philosophy, but a problem for philosophy. I especially enjoyed the “Excursus on Mists and Ooze,” which notes the role played by these slippery, slimy and amorphous entities in a number of horror stories and films.

as what is perceived or experienced by this subject (phenomenon), then would you say that the subject is having the actual experience of noumenon? While there may be some truth in this, what is more important is how all of these interpretive lenses – mythological, theological, existential – have as their most basic presupposition a view of the world as a human-centric world, as a world for us as human beings, living in human cultures, governed by human values. Here, Thacker centers an anonymous poem that circulated online as a jumping point for considering how a mysticism of the unhuman could help us address the climatological, meteorological, and geological world that is so much in crisis today.

Having read the introductory chapter, I was really keen to get on with this work and to see what secrets lay within. Thacker's most widely read book is In the Dust of This Planet, part of his Horror of Philosophy trilogy. When I finished this book, I must admit I was a bit disappointed, since I was eager to see how Thacker’s ideas could be used in novel ways (especially in the realm of the political). Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating. Thacker has also written in a similar vein on the role of negation and "nothingness" in the work of mystical philosopher Meister Eckhart.

As a catalogue of interesting tidbits it's quite nice, but on the whole it lacks philosophical substance. In his appraisal of these ideas, Thacker concludes that philosophical thinking about life owes much to mystical, apophatic theology since this radical negativity is at the root between Being and Life. We can even abbreviate these three concepts further: the world-for-us is simply the World, the world-in-itself is simply the Earth, and the world-without-us is simply the Planet.The issue here is twofold, as both the content and structure don’t offer Thacker any favors in helping him clarify his thoughts. these pages take cues from Burroughs and Gibson, while at the same time presciently pointing to the web-based path writing would take over the next decade. Another weird aspect of this book is the author’s irregular adoption of a Medieval strategic framework of approach. So, if you are standing with a friend and looking and you see a lake and the friend also sees the lake. During the course of this sixty books challenge, you will find that very few reviews of books will start with the mention of Jay-Z.

While it often reads more like an academic thesis than an accessible work of pop-philosophy, it is still a worthwhile read, especially for fans of the genre. On the other hand, “the horror of philosophy” suggests the converse: an examination of philosophy itself, with an emphasis on identifying philosophy’s own “horrific” aspects. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live – a central motif of the horror genre. In modernity, in the intersection of scientific hegemony, industrial capitalism, and what Nietzsche famously prophesied as the death of God, the non-human world gains a different value. And the modern existential framework, with its ethical imperative of choice, freedom, and will, in the face of both scientific and religious determinisms, ultimately constricts the entire world into a solipsistic, angst-ridden vortex of the individual human subject.In 2013 Thacker, along with Alexander Galloway and McKenzie Wark, published the co-authored book Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation. In Kant, it is the noumenal world that spurs human consciousness to generate a phenomenal reality: the reality of subjective, lived experience.