![]() ![]() In the Dust of This Planet - Horror of Philosophy vol. 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. 1 Type: on subject Author: Eugene Thacker Publisher: Zero Books, 2011 Code: PHIL-THA-1. The shadow isnt from a planet, but from an inner disk slightly inclined relative to the much larger outer disk causing it to cast a shadow. Title: In the dust of this planet Horror of Philosophy vol. ![]() 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 2017, astronomers reported discovering a shadow sweeping across the face of a vast pancake-shaped gas-and-dust disk surrounding the red dwarf star. 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. Now this is the point at which I was like, ok. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. "Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating." Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. ![]()
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