Starry Speculative Corpse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Starry Speculative Corpse write by Eugene Thacker. This book was released on 2015-04-24. Starry Speculative Corpse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
In the Dust of This Planet
In the Dust of This Planet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Dust of This Planet write by Eugene Thacker. This book was released on 2011. In the Dust of This Planet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Tentacles Longer Than Night
Tentacles Longer Than Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tentacles Longer Than Night write by Eugene Thacker. This book was released on 2015-04-24. Tentacles Longer Than Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human being struggling to confront its lack of reason for being in the vast cosmos. This is the terrain of the horror genre. Eugene Thacker explores this situation in Tentacles Longer Than Night. Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Thacker considers the relationship between philosophy and the horror genre. But instead of taking fiction as the mere illustration of ideas, Thacker reads horror stories as if they themselves were works of philosophy, driven by a speculative urge to question human knowledge and the human-centric view of the world, ultimately leading to the limit of the human - thought undermining itself, in thought. Tentacles Longer Than Night is the third volume of the "horror of philosophy" trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the second volume, Starry Speculative Corpse.
A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937
A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937 write by Jonathan Newell. This book was released on 2020-03-15. A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a new critical perspective on the weird that combines two ways of looking at weird and cosmic horror. Mingling of nausea and knowledge, this book connects pulp horror with metaphysical insight, offering an innovative approach aesthetics and metaphysics. Combines recent speculative philosophy and affect theory.
Law by Night
Law by Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law by Night write by Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller. This book was released on 2023-10-20. Law by Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Law by Night Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller asks what we can learn about modern law and its authority by understanding how it operates in the dark of night. He outlines how the social experience and cultural meanings of night promote racialized and gender violence, but also make possible freedom of movement for marginalized groups that might be otherwise unavailable during the day. Examining nighttime racial violence, curfews, gun ownership, the right to sleep, and “take back the night” rallies, Goldberg-Hiller demonstrates that liberal legal doctrine lacks a theory of the night that accounts for a nocturnal politics that has historically allowed violence to persist. By locating the law’s nocturnal limits, Goldberg-Hiller enriches understandings of how the law reinforces hierarchies of race and gender and foregrounds the night’s potential to enliven a more egalitarian social life.
