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

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In fact, I would recommend reading (on Google) the author's short 2016 review in the Japan Times entitled Black Illumination: the Abyss of Keiji Nishitani of the philosophy of Nishitani. The world-without-us is as much a cultural concept as it is a scientific one, and, as this book attempts to show, it is in the genres of supernatural horror and science fiction that we most frequently find attempts to think about, and to confront the difficult thought of, the world-without-us.

Examples are his book Biomedia, [20] and his writings on bioinformatics, nanotechnology, biocomputing, complex adaptive systems, swarm intelligence, and network theory. In 2013 Thacker, along with Alexander Galloway and McKenzie Wark, published the co-authored book Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation.Hence contradiction is built into this challenge – we cannot help but to think of the world as a human world, by virtue of the fact that it is we human beings that think it. So, it sounds like your way of putting things reduces the phenomenal/noumenal dualism to a kind of monism. Do you yourself (not Kant) think that the chair you think you are sitting on right now, actually exists independently of you out “there” or is it only in you and nowhere else?

In short, when the non-human world manifests itself to us in these ambivalent ways, more often than not our response is to recuperate that non-human world into whatever the dominant, human-centric worldview is at the time. 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? The book starts a bit shaky and is a bit of a slow-burn toward the beginning, yet it also seems to crystallize and focus as it progresses.

So all what we are perceiving or experiencing is a distorted, false and misleading representation of noumenon presented to us by our limited faculties of cognition. He has contributed to limited editions books produced by Zagava Press, including his essay on the life and writings of J.

Also, by horror I do not mean the human emotion of fear, be it manifest in a fiction film, a news report, or a personal experience. In this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world.Networks, Swarms, Multitudes" Part 1, Part 2, Ctheory (2004), "Biophilosophy for the 21st Century", Ctheory (2005). But the world can mean many things, from a subjective experience of living in the world, to the objective, scientific study of geological conditions.

If you can wade through the overly-verbose academic jargon and messy structure of this book, there are a few gems to be found that are worth finding and taking into consideration. 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? ThackerPaperback: 978-1-78279-891-0 eBook: 978-1-78279-890-3 •[ Zero Books ] Tentacles Longer Than Night Horror of Philosophy vol.Horror, fashion, and the end of the world … In this episode, first aired in 2014, but maybe even more relevant today, things get weird as we explore the undercurrents of thought that link nihilists, beard-stroking philosophers, Jay-Z, and True Detective. Eugene Thacker is the author of several books, including In the Dust of This Planet (Zero Books, 2011) and Infinite Resignation (Repeater/PenguinRandomHouse, 2018).