In the Dust of This Planet by Eugene Thacker

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Radiolab is on YouTube! Catch up with new episodes and hear classics from our archive. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Thacker’s new book traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it often is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude. _Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. You can find Eugene Thacker's 'In The Dust Of the Planet' at Zero Books How? We talk nihilism with Eugene Thacker & Simon Critchley, leather jackets with June Ambrose, climate change with David Victor, and hope with the father of Transcendental Black Metal - Hunter Hunt Hendrix of the band Liturgy.Īlso, check out WNYC Studio's _On the Media _episode Staring into the Abyss, in it Brooke Gladstone and Jad Abumrad continue their discussion of nihilism and its place in history.

It’s an academic treatise about the horror humanity feels as we realize that we are nothing but a speck in the universe. In Thackers 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. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that. Jad’s brother-in-law wrote a book called 'In The Dust of This Planet'. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. 'Thackers 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. 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.

In the Dust of This Planet by Eugene Thacker