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In the Dust of This Planet
- Horror of Philosophy, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Robert Slade
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Summary
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 underappreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music.
"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)
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- Giddy Gilbert
- 21-05-23
Insightful
Erudite but difficult as an audiobook but still insightful. The paper book is preferable as reflection and meditative contemplation is easier. Herein is a philosophical description of ‘our demons’ what plaques our lives and permeates our universe. I’m particularly interested in Demonology as supernaturalism or even historical or political but there is so much information here as first of a trilogy. The narration is engaging. It’s a shame no further volumes recorded as Eugene Thacker has Eyes to See and helps one to digest the Nihilistic Foundations of our world in which demons seem to be a poetic substitution in my opinion. Excellent Recording. I’d like to see yet more.
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