Starry Speculative Corpse
Starry Speculative Corpse Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores…
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Starry Speculative Corpse
Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse. Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning?
Along the way we see philosophers grappling with demons, struggling with doubt, and wrestling with an indifferent cosmos. 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. 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