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

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However, this relationship between philosophy and horror should not be taken to mean the philosophy of horror, in which horror as a literary or film genre is presented as a rigorous formal system. He is associate professor of media studies at the New School in New York, and is scholar-in-residence at the Miskatonic University's Institute for Shoggothic Atheology in Israel. He synthesizes thinkers across philosophical and religious traditions, which help to make his thesis all the more robust and intriguing. If, however, one is completely uninterested in the connections between philosophy, horror, and mystical theology, then this book will probably not engage your interest at all.

There's two stars here because it does, in places, set out some fairly interesting ideas (if you can manage to wade through the more vacuous portions). We can even abbreviate these three concepts further: the world-for-us is simply the World, the world-in-itself is simply the Earth, and the world-without-us is simply the Planet.This entry was posted in Film and Philosophy, Uncategorized and tagged Eugene Thacker, existentialism, film and philosophy, Horror, horror of philosophy, In the Dust of This Planet, meaning of life, nihilism, philosophy, philosophy of horror. 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. For Thacker, the genre of supernatural horror is the key site in which this paradoxical thought of the unthinkable takes place. I have spoken before about the serendipitous nature of picking books at random from my list, and this was a good demonstration of it.

Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation, co-authored with Alexander Galloway and McKenzie Wark (University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. Perhaps it would help to advance the argument if you articulated what you take to be the differences between these terms?Thacker's earlier works adopt approaches from the philosophies of science and technology, and examine the relation between science and science fiction. The philosophy of horror” suggests an attempt to philosophize about horror, perhaps by looking for its essential characteristics in various experiential, literary and cinematic forms. Thacker's follow-up essay "Darklife: Negation, Nothingness, and the Will-to-Life in Schopenhauer" discusses the ontology of life in terms of negation, eliminativism, and "the inverse relationship between logic and life.