Tra le ceneri di questo pianeta

Videorecensione: https://youtu.be/Tz-X_7ERR64 Lo aspettavo da tempo e, finalmente uscito, ne sono stato risucchiato. Lettura splendida in cui Darkthrone, Dante, Junji Ito, Bataille e Lovecraft -tra gli altri- sfilano e aprono spiragli sulla nostra realtà fatta di pandemie, disastri e dominata dall'ig Leggi tutto

An interesting look at some philosophical themes -- essence, reality, negation, alterity, myth -- with horror and occult themes used as a framework. The work deserves a star, simply for its ambition, given its experimental structures and unconventional ways of organizing its ideas. There are compell Leggi tutto

I have no idea what this was about but I liked it

This book made my skin crawl and my mind expand. It's a dense, sometimes impenetrable work of philosophy that discusses the Unthinkable, so obviously it's not going to work very well as beach reading. But if you give it your attention and an open mind, there are some seriously creepy-cool concepts a Leggi tutto

Notte, suolo, pianeta, nulla Questo testo tratta di nichilismo e misticismo. Pone al lettore molte domande, restando silenzioso e meditativo nelle risposte; se sia possibile pensare il non pensiero, se sia possibile pensare il nulla, se infine sia possibile comunicare l'esperienza mistica. Nell'ordin Leggi tutto

What would it mean to speak of a ‘horror of philosophy’ instead of a 'philosophy of horror’? With this question, Eugene Thacker begins his weird and wonderful romp through the hallowed halls of horror, from the nine circles of Dante’s hell, to the living dead of contemporary cinema, topped off with Leggi tutto

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. I suppose we should keep busy as we inhabit a world which is only a planet gla Leggi tutto

Review the unreviewable. Rate the unrateable. This is an incredibly ambitious book of philosophy, in that it is quite literally trying to "think the unthinkable," or to establish a kind of mysticism / belief system that is without any human (anthropocentric) basis whatsoever. In other words, to creat Leggi tutto

Numerous typos? CHECK Cloying pedagogical tone that assumes extreme ignorance on the part of the reader? CHECK Throw away references to Kant, Hegel, the book of "Revelations", et al? CHECK A superficial take on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche? CHECK A paradoxically "deeply superficial" view on negativity a Leggi tutto