"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 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
under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film,
comics, and music.
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