The confusion that is constitutive of horror . . . is irrevocably linked to the complete perversion of a phenomenal field: if everyday intelligibility is organized around cultural heights seeking to secure the functioning of the phenomenal field, horror crystallizes in the decline and folding up of phenomena. It presupposes this downward trend of intelligibility that distorts and disrupts the phenomenality but that at the same time claims for itself a certain positivity and a certain appearance of this positivity. Horror announces itself as a phenomenon at the cost of folding up the cultural phenomenality; being born out of the straining of the symbolic system of a given culture and pulling off its horizons, horror swoops directly against the very deployment of a given cultural phenomenal field. Thus, we could describe the phenomenon of horror as a counter-phenomenon [which] deploys its phenomenality at the cost of a foreclosing larger network of phenomena. It endangers, hunts down and exists as a constant reminder of the fragility of the cultural "phenomenal spectrum". As such, it resonates with everything downgrading in a given culture. Horror lives in dirt and decay, it is malicious and violent, it thrives on blood, sufferings, and disappears under the light.
Daniil Koloskov, "Beyond the Reach: Horror and Phenomenal Life"
