Author: Eugene Thacker

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Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human …

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Life is one of our most basic concepts, and yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this …

Die Welt ist zunehmend undenkbar geworden: Umweltkatastrophen, Pandemien, und am Horizont grinst die Fratze des Aussterbens der Menschheit. Angesichts dieser Szenarien sind neue Weltbetrachtungen von …

Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are, writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett.In History and Utopia, Cio …

In this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task …

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Tracing the the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead.For as long as recording and communications tech …

Scientists, scholars, and artists consider the political significance of recent advances in the biological sciences.Popular culture in this "biological century" seems to feed on proliferati …

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In this collection of essays and epigrams, E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluationswhich he calls "admirations"of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul …

“Everything is sad, ” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be for …

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El pesimismo no tiene más que un efecto: introducir humildad en el pensamiento. Ese es el intento de Eugene Thacker en este libro, de la mano de una constelación de autores como Arthur Schopenhauer y …