Bøger af Eugene Thacker

Verden er i stigende grad utænkelig – en verden med globalekatastrofer, nye pandemier, tektoniske skift, mærkeligt vejr, oliedækkedehavflader og den dunkle og konstant lurende trussel om udryddelse. Trods voresdagligdags bekymringer, behov og ønsker bliver det stadig sværere at forståden verden, vi lever i og er del af. At stå over for denne tanke er at stå overfor en absolut grænse for vores evne til i det hele taget at få en fyldestgørendeforståelse af verden.Sådan indlederEugene Thacker I denne planets støv – der netop undersøger denmenneskelige tankes grænse; hvordan tænker vi det utænkelige? Gennem dæmonologi,okkultisme, mystik og genren overnaturlig horror samt filosofisk nihilisme ogpessimisme undersøger Thacker filosofiens rædsel: At vi mennesker lever på etstøvkorn i et uendeligt kosmos, på en planet uden mening og i en verden, derdybest set er indifferent i forhold til menneskets behov, håb og kampe.Eugene Thacker er filosof,digter og professor i mediestudier ved The New School i New York. Han kaldeskosmisk pessimist og hans arbejde kan associeres med den spekulative realisme.

#1 Amazon Best Seller in Philosophy Criticism. The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. 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. 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. 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. 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. For Thacker, the genre of supernatural horror is the key site in which this paradoxical thought of the unthinkable takes place. 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. 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IW8OK4_1gQ

Glossator: Practice and Theory of the CommentaryVolume 6 (2012) -Black MetalEditors: Nicola Masciandaro & Reza NegarestaniOf Plications: A Short Summa on the Nature of Cascadian Black Metal - Steven ShakespeareBlack Metal and the Mouth: Always Serving You as a Meal, or, Infected Orality, Pestilential Wounds and Scars - Aspasia StephanouThe Blackish Green of the Greenish Black, or, The Earth's Coruscating Darkness - Ben WoodardDay of Wrath - Eugene ThackerAppendix: Abstracts - Manabrata Guha, Reza Negarestani, Benjamin Noys, Zachary Price, James Trafford

Schism Press brings you the 20th Anniversary Edition of Eugene Thacker's "anti-novel" An Ideal for Living. In an unnamed city in the not-so-distant future, individuals spend their time in isolation, enclosed in high-tech "pods," arrayed in symbiotic megastructures, connected to vast networks of neurological and biochemical data. An Ideal for Living is a glimpse into this world, presented not as a story but as a documentary-style "dossier" of data streams, research articles, and automated activity logs. Originally published in 2000, An Ideal for Living evokes a dark poetics of bodies and technologies; at once a look back to cyberpunk science fiction and a look forward to the "new weird." "As today's strategies of conceptual writing have become legitimized and clichéd, Thacker's text reminds us of how radical and potent these gestures once were, treading a fine line between the mechanical and the authorial. This is an important book...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. It's a joy to see this back in print."-- Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Soliloquy, Day, and Uncreative Writing, founder of Ubuweb

Schism press brings you its first anthology, edited by Nicola Masciandaro and Eugene Thacker. A collection of essays on beheading and cinema, with full color interior. Contents: Dominic Pettman, "What Came First, the Chicken or the Head?" - Eugene Thacker, "Thing and No-Thing" - Alexi Kukuljevic, "Suicide by Decapitation" - Alexander Galloway, "The Painted Peacock" - Evan Calder Williams, "Recapitation" - Nicola Masciandaro, "Decapitating Cinema" - Ed Keller, "Corpus Atomicus" - Gary J Shipley, "Remote Viewing." Photography by Leighton Pierce.

Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place in March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience, provoking vital debate around the relationship between philosophy, geopolitics, geophysics, and art. At once a work of speculative theology, a political samizdat, and a philosophic grimoire, Cyclonopedia is a Deleuzo-Lovecraftian middle-eastern Odyssey populated by archeologists, jihadis, oil smugglers, Delta Force officers, heresiarchs, and the corpses of ancient gods. Playing out the book's own theory of creativity - "a confusion in which no straight line can be traced or drawn between creator and created - original inauthenticity" - this multidimensional collection both faithfully interprets the text and realizes it as a loving, perforated host of fresh heresies. The volume includes an incisive contribution from the author explicating a key figure of the novel: the cyclone.CONTENTS: Robin Mackay, "A Brief History of Geotrauma" - McKenzie Wark, "An Inhuman Fiction of Forces" - Benjamin H. Bratton, "Root the Earth: On Peak Oil Apophenia" - Alisa Andrasek, "Dustism" - Zach Blas, "Queerness, Openness" - Melanie Doherty, "Non-Oedipal Networks and the Inorganic Unconscious" - Anthony Sciscione, "Symptomatic Horror: Lovecraft's 'The Colour Out of Space'" - Kate Marshall, "Cyclonopedia as Novel (a meditation on complicity as inauthenticity)" - Alexander R. Galloway, "What is a Hermeneutic Light?" - Eugene Thacker, "Black Infinity; or, Oil Discovers Humans" - Nicola Masciandaro, "Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness" - Dan Mellamphy & Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, "Phileas Fogg, or the Cyclonic Passepartout: On the Alchemical Elements of War" - Ben Woodard, "The Untimely (and Unshapely) Decomposition of Onto-Epistemological Solidity: Negarestani's Cyclonopedia as Metaphysics" - Ed Keller, ". . .Or, Speaking with the Alien, a Refrain. . ." - Lionel Maunz, "Receipt of Malice" - Öykü Tekten, "Symposium Photographs" - Reza Negarestani, "Notes on the Figure of the Cyclone"

Philosophy meets horror against the backdrop of an indifferent, unhuman cosmos.

"Verden er i stigende grad utænkelig – en verden med globale katastrofer, nye pandemier, tektoniske skift, mærkeligt vejr, oliedækkede havflader, og den dunkle og konstant lurende trussel om udryddelse. Trods vores dagligdags bekymringer, behov og ønsker, bliver det stadig sværere at forstå den verden, vi lever i og er del af. At stå over for denne tanke er at stå over for en absolut grænse for vores evne til i det hele taget at få en fyldestgørende forståelse af verden."Sådan indleder Eugene Thacker I denne planets støv – der netop undersøger den menneskelige tankes grænse; hvordan tænker vi det utænkelige? Gennem dæmonologi, okkultisme, mystik og genren overnaturlig horror samt filosofisk nihilisme og pessimisme undersøger Thacker filosofiens rædsel: At vi mennesker lever på et støvkorn i et uendeligt kosmos, på en planet uden mening og i en verden, der dybest set er indifferent i forhold til menneskets behov, håb og kampe.Eugene Thacker er filosof, digter og professor i medie- studier ved The New School i New York. Han kaldes kosmisk pessimist og hans arbejde kan associeres med den spekulative realisme.

A collection of aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism.Composed of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Eugene Thacker's Infinite Resignation traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude. By turns melancholic, misanthropic, and tinged with gallows humor, Thacker's writing tenuously hovers over that point at which the thought of futility becomes the futility of thought.

Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse. But instead of using philosophy to define or to explain the horror genre, Thacker reads works of philosophy as if they were horror stories themselves, revealing a rift between human beings and the unhuman world of which they are part. Along the way we see philosophers grappling with demons, struggling with doubt, and wrestling with an indifferent cosmos. At the center of it all is the philosophical drama of the human being confronting its own limits. Not a philosophy of horror, but a horror of philosophy. Thought that stumbles over itself, as if at the edge of an abyss. Starry Speculative Corpse is the second volume of the Horror of Philosophy trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the third volume, Tentacles Longer Than Night.

Eugene Thacker is the author of several books, including In The Dust of This Planet. He teaches at the New School in New York

Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. This book clears the ground for a new philosophy of life by recovering the twists and turns in its philosophical history.