In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy): 1

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In the opening of the book the authors ask "Does everything that exists, exist to be presented and represented, to be mediated and remediated, to be communicated and translated? But even the Earth is simply a designation that we’ve given to something that has revealed itself or made itself available to the gathering of samples, the generating of data, the production of models, and the disputes over policy. He has contributed to limited editions books produced by Zagava Press, including his essay on the life and writings of J. As I read this section I was lost, not understanding the relevance of the examples or what connection this all had to the “horror of philosophy,” which was the theme established in the prologue. Thacker is writing about the limits of human thought, and while he offers interesting avenues to explore these ideas, it can be a bit of a dense and overly academic read.

The program traced the appropriation of Thacker's book of the same name in contemporary art, fashion, music video, and popular culture. The world is human and non-human, anthropocentric and non-anthropomorphic, sometimes even misanthropic. In Kantian philosophy, *something* exists independent of human minds, but what it is that exists cannot be known apart from the concepts of our understanding. But may be I am missing something and perhaps we can try to clarify this point starting from the beginning. On the one hand, we are increasingly more and more aware of the world in which we live as a non-human world, a world outside, one that is manifest is the effects of global climate change, natural disasters, the energy crisis, and the progressive extinction of species world-wide.There are mediative situations in which heresy, exile, or banishment carry the day, not repetition, communion, or integration. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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. 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 this bestselling book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. the author offers short readings of various pieces of literature, television shows, movies and even of Carl Schmitt! This also means that horror is not simply about fear, but instead about the enigmatic thought of the unknown. Thacker utilizes an interesting comparative methodology by placing philosophers like Kant and Schopenhauer alongside modern Buddhist thinkers to construct a kind of “dark mysticism. The world-in-itself is a paradoxical concept; the moment we think it and attempt to act on it, it ceases to be the world-in-itself and becomes the world-for-us.

In his second chapter (titled “Six Lectio on Occult Philosophy”), Thacker gives us his unique reading of occult philosophy and its usefulness in demarcating the boundary between natural and supernatural.

The world is increasingly unthinkable – a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, tectonic shifts, strange weather, oil-drenched seascapes, and the furtive, always-looming threat of extinction. Perhaps it would help to advance the argument if you articulated what you take to be the differences between these terms? He has also collaborated with Biotech Hobbyist, and co-authored an art book Creative Biotechnology: A User's Manual. Perhaps I misunderstood, but I took you to be saying that if we think of noumenal reality as the one True, objective reality, then all phenomenal experiences (which occur within conscious subjects who themselves objectively exist as part of the noumenal world) must also be a part of that reality.Thacker’s central idea is that horror literature brings us to the edge of thought, as it brings us to the very limit of human thought and forces us to consider the world apart from the human. 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. It was about a curious chain of events, in which a non-philosophy book (as described by its author) that came out with very little fanfare outside of its immediate academic realm, in an obscure publishing house (a publishing house with a manifesto, printed at the end of the book, explaining what the qualifications are for books that they will publish. 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 other words, don’t we run into a paradox, something like: phenomena are a part of noumena, but we can’t know phenomena as a part of noumena? 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. Thacker's work has been associated with philosophical nihilism and pessimism, as well as to contemporary philosophies of speculative realism and collapsology. In Kant, it is the noumenal world that spurs human consciousness to generate a phenomenal reality: the reality of subjective, lived experience. Another weird aspect of this book is the author’s irregular adoption of a Medieval strategic framework of approach.While the horror genre is an important part of culture, and while scholarly studies of the horror genre do help us to understand how a book or film obtains the effects it does, genre horror deserves to be considered as more than the sum of its formal properties. In his appraisal of these ideas, Thacker concludes that philosophical thinking about life owes much to mystical, apophatic theology since this radical negativity is at the root between Being and Life. The second “lightning bolt” comes in the second chapter, where, while addressing the issue of occult philosophy, Thacker articulates the thought-provoking idea that while the world in-itself may be something inaccessible to human understanding and experience, its very inaccessibility reveals a quality that is indeed graspable by humans. In the Dust of This Planet is an encyclopedic grimoire instructing us in the varieties of esoteric thought and infernal diversions that exist for the reader’s further investigation, treating us to a delightful stroll down a midway of accursed attractions that alone are worth the ticket of this volume.