Circulation within my skull II

Clinical depression, psychosis, perversion and nihilism.

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Eugenics to Transhumanism: The Secular Religion of Progressive Perfectibility

The so-called ‘change agent’—capable of transforming the genetic sequence of living people—could radically alter the world as we know it. … This technology could well undermine the concept of…

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Very interesting article by Noys.

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Anselm Kiefer The moral law within us, the starry heavens above us 1969–2010

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, 1992, David Lynch

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Desire and the deadlocks of Drive.

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Disclaimer: some of the opinions expressed in this article are extremely controversial. There are significant, spirited, mostly reasonable debates …

‘’Antinatalism has a long and storied history. Socrates is credited with the remark ‘to live is to be sick for a long time’; the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer advanced the idea in the nineteenth century[4], and the philosopher/comedian Peter Wessel Zapffe continued in the following century[5]. More recently the character Rustin Cohle in the television show True Detectiveexpresses clear antinatalist (if misanthropic) tendencies, the comedian Doug Stanhope has proposed paying people not to have children[6], and the maniacal YouTube personality Freelee the Banana Girl has made her antinatalist views known.’’

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These stories were everything I had come to expect from a European author of the morbid and the bizarre whose work, in fact, is indeed reminiscent of Poe’s, as is a great deal of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century literature from Europe that developed in the shadow of Baudelaire and his translations of Poe. Both of these men brought out something that I believe had always been latent in European literature: a belief in the legitimacy of presenting repellent subject matter and negative evaluations of life in works of art and literature. By their overwhelming genius, Baudelaire and Poe *permitted* the writers of the world to speak of the physically and psychologically offensive aspects of being alive. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Europe, where the cautious advancements of Romanticism in each country’s literature into dark regions mushroomed into a full-blown obsession with all things degraded and pessimistic in the broadest sense. With few exceptions, America did not provide fertile soil for this mutation, but Europe, which had steadily degenerated in so many ways after the fall of Rome and the rise of medieval Gothicism, fully bloomed in the night of history. In Poland, Grabiński was one of its finest flowers of evil.

Thomas Ligotti (via jaded-toddler)

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“Everything on our way is slippery and dangerous, and the ice that still supports us has become thin. All of us feel the warm, uncanny breath of the thawing wind where we still walk. Soon no one will be able to walk.”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §57 (edited excerpt).

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It’s All a Matter of Personal Pathology Conducted by Matt Cardin, July 2006 Published in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2006) INTRODU…

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The Optimism Delusion - David Benatar responds to Richard Dawkins. Philosophy

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Andrew Gibson relates a revealing incident when “Katherine Worth expressed admiration for Edward Bond’s will to change the world, Beckett snorted ‘Let it burn.’”

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