#eugene thacker

[funeral]

Eugene Thacker, "Nine Disputations on Theology and Horror", Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development, Vol. IV

[milksockets]

"A new ignorance is on the horizon, an ignorance borne not of a lack of knowledge but of too much knowledge, too much data, too many theories, too little time."

Tentacles Longer Than the Night - Eugene Thacker

[cosmonautroger]

Sad Planets, Eugene Thacker, Dominic Pettman, 2024

[reitoeii]

[mayonailss]

[areadersquotelibrary]

"The world is increasingly unthinkable—a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, tectonic shifts, strange weather, oil-drenched seascapes, and the furtive, always-looming threat of extinction."

- Eugene Thacker, Horror of Philosophy Series

[nousrose]

We have to entertain the possibility that there is no reason for something existing; or that the split between subject and object is only our name for something equally accidental we call knowledge; or, an even more difficult thought, that while there may be some order to the self and the cosmos, to the microcosm and macrocosm, it is an order that is absolutely indifferent to our existence, and of which we can have only a negative awareness.

In the Dust of This Planet

Eugene Thacker

[summonee]

Not to get too much of a sociologist on main, but grading papers that involves Durkheim's theory of social facts reminds me of when Eugene Thacker read works of philosophy as horror, and you could probably do the same with social facts.

We teach that "Social facts are things", Durkheim says they exist beyond people and control society and are things like language, religion, basically things sociology studies. And that they are external to us, and we cannot directly change them while they continue to act on us. Is this not a cosmic horror idea, of a high concept being that governs humans social life that we can't escape from?