Eugene Thacker explores this situation in Tentacles Longer Than Night. Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Thacker considers the relationship between philosophy and the horror genre. But instead of taking fiction as the mere illustration of ideas, Thacker reads horror stories as if they themselves were works of philosophy, driven by a speculative urge to question human knowledge and the human-centric view of the world, ultimately leading to the limit of the human--thought undermining itself, in thought.
Tentacles Longer Than Night is the third volume of the "Horror of Philosophy" trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the second volume, Starry Speculative Corpse.
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Clouds of Unknowing by Eugene Thacker (excerpt from In the Dust of This Planet, Horror of Philosophy Vol. I) 🎧 https://t.co/M7br54YsRR 📖 https://t.co/FNsdp0LcAP
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50. In The Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy Vol. 1 by Eugene Thacker Thacker argues for horror as a philosophical response to the contemporary crises of humanism. To this end he builds a new canon of horror from the history of occultism, demonology, and mysticism.
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“At the furthest limit of the gothic, the human becomes fascinated by - obsessed by - its reduction into a black matter of oblivion.” - Eugene Thacker, from Tentacles Longer Than Night