![]() 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. ![]() Resembling dusty infrared donuts, the images show unexpected moving structures in the disk. 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. Astronomers have presented the most detailed known images of the inner region of a planet-forming disk. In the Dust of This Planet Radiolab Podcast Radiolab 51.8K subscribers Subscribe 5. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. Read the extracts from this book The world is becoming more and more impossible, the world of planetary. "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. Look at our privacy policy for more information. ![]()
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