Starry Speculative Corpse Horror of Philosophy vol.Two more in the series Horror of Philosophy - April 2015: The book influenced the writers of the US TV series True Detective and has been lambasted by ex-Fox News broadcaster, Glenn Beck in this podcast 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. For Thacker, the genre of supernatural horror is the key site in which this paradoxical thought of the unthinkable takes place. This relationship between philosophy and horror does not mean the philosophy of horror, if anything, it means the reverse, the horror of philosophy: those moments when philosophical thinking enigmatically confronts the horizon of its own existence. Likewise, Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore and scare tactics, but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music. In Thacker’s hands, philosophy is not academic logic-chopping instead, it is the thought of the limit of all thought, especially as it dovetails into occultism, demonology, and mysticism. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror.
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 this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. #1 Amazon Best Seller in Philosophy Criticism
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