"Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating. 3 By Eugene Thacker John Hunt Publishing Ltd. Read an Excerpt Tentacles Longer than Night Horror of Philosophy, vol. He is Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York. Likewise, Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore and scare tactics, but as the underappreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music. Thacker is the author of a number of books, including After Life (2010), and In the Dust of this Planet in his Horror of Philosophy series.
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 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. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy vol. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. 1, Volume 1 - Ebook written by Eugene Thacker. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy vol. 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 this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction.
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