#against existence

[athousandgateaux]

The elevation of ‘life’ beyond all other phenomena; what both the natalist and anti-natalist positions presume is the division between the living and the non-living – itself a product of human knowledge and vested interests. But shouldn’t the real anti-natalist be against existence itself as well as life? A pessimism of this sort would not take sides in tepid debates among philosophers over survival and extinction, natalism and anti-natalism, life and death. Instead, it would highlight the arbitrariness of those very distinctions. At its limit would be a subharmonic ‘no’ without any object of negation. One would think that this would lead to silence…or at least to quiet.

Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation, pg. 70