In the dust of this planet pdf download

Looking upon philosophy from the perspective of horror allows Thacker to illuminate the stakes of the philosophical enterprise as a whole, bringing to the foreground the specters that haunt its foundations from within. In Thacker's hands, Life, one of our most intimate categories of thought, simply falls apart, and what we encounter instead is horror at the very heart of who and what we think we are.

Although Thacker does make it clear that his aim to think the 'paradoxical thought' of a 'world-without-us', Thacker's endgame seems to be an inquiry into the possibility of a non-theological and non-anthropocentric mysticism, an 'occultism of the noumenal' to borrow Kant's phrase , one that aims not at 'becoming one with the divine', but rather a sort of 'becoming nothing'.

This insofar as for Thacker, as with Schopenhauer and Bataille before him, nothing is 'all there is'. Although mysticism of any sort is not something I've ever been able to buy into, my own takeaway was something like an renewed appreciation for the autonomy of horror, one not yet coopted into the omnivorous ambit of philosophy. A matter of 'letting horror be', to put a twist on the old Heideggerian slogan. Whether my disappointment in this will prove a function of my expectation, only time and renewed reading-neither of which I am at present prepared to invest-will tell.

Much of the subject matter is compelling, but Thacker's treatment of that subject matter is made in the most awful kind of academic prattling. This book reads like your buddy's PhD dissertation he thrust on you, by which I mean that it is not alive.

This is philosophy not in the wild, but philosophy confined to a zoo. Recommended to me by a friend during a conversation about True Detective. Apparently, Rust's character took a lot of inspiration from the book, so of course I had to read it. The book discusses our relationship to the unthinkable world in the philosophical, Kantian sense in its proximity to the concept of horror.

In as much as Kant in his aggressively structured way said we can't think about things without imposing human categories on them, this book attempts to think through to it, as these fears are made manifest through the recurring themes of the demonic and the amorphous horror, in black metal, literature, film, poetry, video games, etc. It's probably the first philosophy book I've read since I graduated from a philosophy BA ten years ago.

The book summarizes how over the course of human history, we have largely converted such a horror from an external force into an internal crisis, from a demonic figure to tempt us, to demonic possession, to a dark force within ourselves. Like most things, that human history is euro centric - Buddhism for example does not really possess a master anticreator parallel to a creator god, or a creator God at all for that matter, and while some other religions possess tricksters folkloric foxes, for instance these are not imagined as in service to any hierarchical or bureaucratic system of divinities.

But everyone does this so it doesn't have to be a big deal. However, the structure of the book is also based on medieval and classical lecture styles so sometimes argument, sometimes exposition, sometimes just general thoughts , and that can sometimes make it difficult to see the connections that link sections together.

The horror of the unthinkable is perhaps best exemplified by HP Lovecraft, where one person's obsession with a perceived nameless horror moves into its manifestation in the world.

Lovecraft would hate Star Trek I think, the idea that "aliens" in any way resemble the human was anathema to him, however much it may have been driven by budgetary considerations. Several interesting but common observations about horror genres and their psychological antecedents are made: how our fear of invasion is manifest in horror stories about amorphous blobs and gases; that allegorical modes of horror reflect class dynamics: the zombie working class, vampire-aristocratic, demon-bourgeois, and so on.

None of these ideas are explained in great depth--they don't need to be, the similarities and symbolic significance are readily apparent. But what about horrors that can't be named? The Thing, The Blob, etc. These are an aberration of thought rather than an aberration of nature The Wolfman, Dracula, etc , and it's the former that really concern Thacker in this book. The kind of modern nihilism that Thacker describes, where dissatisfaction with both religion and science seems to leave us with no ground on which to construct a base for knowledge, collapses the distinctions between self and other, between the world as it exists for us, and what it is without us.

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In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world.

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 the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror.