Podcast appearances and mentions of Eugene Thacker

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Dominic Pettman is University Professor of Media and New Humanities at the New School, and the author of numerous books on technology, humans, and other animals. We discussed his books Infinite Distraction and Peak Libido in episode 10. His book Telling the Bees comes out later this year. In this episode, we discuss Sad Planets by Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker, which is available for order here: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Sad+Planets-p-9781509562374  My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/  Podcast theme created using Udio   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Buy the book from Polity: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=sad-planets--9781509562350Sad PlanetsDominic Pettman, Eugene Thacker“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 forever weeping the “tears of things”? In this series of meditations, Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker explore some of the key “negative affects” – both eternal and emergent – associated with climate change, environmental destruction, and cosmic solitude. In so doing they unearth something so obvious that it has gone largely unnoticed: the question of how we should feel about climate change. Between the information gathered by planetary sensors and the simple act of breathing the air, new unsettling moods are produced for which we currently lack an adequate language. Should we feel grief over the loss of our planet? Or is the strange feeling of witnessing mass extinction an indicator that the planet was never “ours” to begin with? Sad Planets explores this relationship between our all-too-human melancholia and a more impersonal sorrow, nestled in the heart of the cosmic elements.Spanning a wide range of topics – from the history of cosmology to the “existential threat” of climate change – this book is a reckoning with the limits of human existence and comprehension. As Pettman and Thacker observe, never before have we known so much about the planet and the cosmos, and yet never before have we felt so estranged from that same planet, to say nothing of the stars beyond.Support the Show.Support the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/Order 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

"Every storyteller harbours a secret desire to be the one who tells the last story, just as every maniac wishes to inscribe the last fateful madness on earth." In this episode with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh we walk with vertigo to summon the authors who play at the borders of insanity and intoxication. We get into the territories of the night and mania, both of which are the premise of Jason's most recent books: Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark & Night: A Philosophy of the Last World and Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium & Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception. Topics discussed include: exploring the dark poetics of the avant-garde, forbidden literature, and the final words of poets that lean into the dark and speak in apocalyptic tones, manic obsession, cosmic intoxication, opium dreams, mania redeeming nihilism, standing on the threshold of the abyss, embracing relentlessness as an aesthetic to achieve undeniability, and shunning sanity in favor of embracing madness. Omnicide is “A captivating fractal of conceptual prisms in half-storytelling, half-theoretical prose, a rhythmic, poetic, insidious work that commands submission, Omnicide absorbs the reader into unfamiliar and estranging landscapes whose every subtle euphoric aspect threatens to become an irresistible invitation to the end of all things.” Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh's Omnicide offers readers a view into a unique philosophy of delirium, mania, and vitalist annihilation: the startling revelation that everything that is, should not be. Omnicide is a singular kind of taxonomy, a teratology of thought-creatures that dovetails around his chosen writers, from the revelatory self-abnegation of Forugh Farrokhzad to Sadeq Hedayat, the poète maudite of modern Iran. These and other “poets of the lost cause” come together in a compelling book that is a strange hybrid of Aristotle's Categories, Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings, and the Necronomicon. ―Eugene Thacker, author of Infinite Resignation and In the Dust of This Planet Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is a philosopher, literary theorist, and professor of comparative literature at Babson College. His work tracks currents of experimental thought across the so-called East and the West, with particular attention to concepts of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, extremism, mania, disappearance, night, evil, secrecy, and apocalyptic writing. He has published nine books to date, including: The Chaotic Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); Inflictions (Continuum, 2012); The Radical Unspoken (Routledge, 2013); Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian (SUNY, 2015); Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium (MIT/ Urbanomic/ Sequence, 2019); and, Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark (Zero Books, 2019); Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception (MIT/Urbanomic/Sequence, 2022); and Night II: A Philosophy of the Last World (Zero Books, 2022). He is also the founding director of the Future Studies Program (www.futurestudiesprogram.com), Programmer of Transdisciplinary Studies for the New Centre for Research & Practice, and co-editor of the "Futures Theory" and "Suspensions" book series (Bloomsbury). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wake-island/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wake-island/support

Claudio Kulesko"Ecopessimismo"Sentieri nell'Antropocene futuroPiano B Edizionihttps://pianobedizioni.comNon vi è più scampo alla crisi climatica. Tra le nebbie del collasso ecologico ed ecosistemico fa il suo ritorno la categoria più abusata e detestata dell'epoca moderna, quella di “natura”. Una natura corrotta e indifferente, attraversata da forze distruttive e spettri vendicativi, ben lontana dagli scenari bucolici ai quali lo sguardo poetico e l'ambientalismo ingenuo ci hanno abituati. Un orizzonte nel quale l'ottimismo è malafede, e il volontarismo pura follia. Nella cornice di tale decostruzione, tanto simbolica quanto materiale, della specie umana, il pessimismo appare l'unico atteggiamento adatto a descrivere, definire e narrare il presente, nonché il futuro che da esso procede. Dal folk horror all'accelerazione tecnologica, dai movimenti per l'estinzione umana al prepperism e al survivalismo, l'Antropocene, l'“era dell'uomo”, si rivela, a ben vedere, come l'era della fine dell'uomo e del suo dominio sulla natura.Claudio Kulesko è uno scrittore e ricercatore indipendente. Si occupa principalmente di filosofia speculativa e pessimismo filosofico. Per Nero Edizioni ha tradotto Eugene Thacker e il Salvage Collective ed è stato tra i fondatori del collettivo di demonologia rivoluzionaria Gruppo di Nun. Sempre con NERO è autore dell'antologia di narrativa speculativa L'abisso personale di Abn Al-Farabi e altri racconti dell'orrore astratto (2022).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement

On this edition of Parallax Views, David Metcalfe, Santa Muerte researcher and Editor-in-Chief of Threshold: Journal of Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies, joins us for a long, jam-packed discussion of the Morbid Anatomy online course he is teaching with Dr. Diana Pasulka entitled "Your Waking Nightmare: Exploring the UFO Through the Lens of Horror and Techno-Realism". The course will take a media studies approach that delves into understanding the phenomena of Unidentified Flying Object, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, by way of the themes explored in the horror genre. It will also feature guest speakers Amanda M. Radcliffe, the occult and ritual witchcraft advisor for the Nicolas Cage-starring H.P. Lovecraft movie The Color Out of Space, and Whitley Streiber, the world's most famous claimed alien abductee and a former horror author whose novels like The Hunger and Wolfen set him up to be a successor for Stephen King before he became famous in regards to the UFO/alien abduction subject. This isn't necessarily a conversation about believing  in the UFO phenomena or being skeptical of it, but rather what the horror genre can say about people who claim to have "paranormal" experiences and perhaps even what these experiencers can say about themes touched upon in horror that relate to philosophical and social issues. Among the topics discussed in the course of this conversation: - Whitley Streiber and his career as a horror author; his alien abduction memoir Communion (originally set to be titled, interestingly enough, Body Horror) and it's dealing with subject like the Self vs. the Other (and bridging the gap between the two); filmmaker Phillipe Mora's movie adaptation of Communion; Whitley Streiber and psychological/physical trauma; Whitley Streiber's relationship with William S. Burroughs - UFO researcher Jacques Vallee and Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Valle served as the basis for the Francois Truffaut character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind; creatives who don't necessarily believe in the UFO phenomena taking an interest in the subject - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (or The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as it was released) and it's invocation of astrology ("Saturn in Retrograde) that arguably adds a cosmic horror element to the story - The horror genre and catharsis; David's college horror binge that included a diet of Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, and movies like Wes Craven's Last House on the Left (and why David pulled back on watching those movies before returning to them for the course) - Lucio Fulci's The Beyond, Don Coscarelli's Phantasm, and hell/other dimensions depicted in film; horror movies and ritual experience; Kenneth Anger's perspective on cinema - The art of the jump scare; the visceral nature of the horror genre; the intersection between horror and comedy - The Travis Walton alien abduction case and the movie depiction of it in the police-procedural-turned-full-on-horror-in-the-third-act Fire in the Sky; the depiction of alien abductions in cinema; intentional artificiality and theatricality in Phillipe Mora's Communion starring Christopher Walken as Whitley Streiber; Communion vs. Fire in the Sky and the ways in which Communion portrays the alien abduction experience in a stranger, harder-to-grasp way - Lovecraft, the encounter with the unknown in horror, and the inability to adequately express/fully comprehend alleged anomalous experiences - Clive Barker's 1987 cult classics Hellraiser, reframing the concept of the alien/extraterrestrial, and interdimensional beings; Alien amorality in Hellraiser; Cliver Barker's Cabal (later made into the movie Nightbreed) and sympathy for the Other; exploration of the anomalous rather than belief in the anomalous; the occult-tinged industrial music project Coil, led by Jhonn Balance and Peter Christopherson, and Hellraiser; Hellraiser, the BDSM underground, and the Barker's The Hellbound Heart as a dark fairytale/dark romance exploring what loves means and is - The dark portrayal of psychology in Nightbreed, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors  - The late psychiatrist Dr. John E. Mack, professor and the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and his perspective on alien abductions; Mack's desire to understand the alien abduction through, among other things, Eastern spirituality; how John Mack's approach to alien abduction differs from other alien abduction believers such as Budd Hopkins or David Jacobs; how alien abductions and how they are understood in popular culture are forced in a a specific narrative to the preclusion of all else - Different cultural perspectives on UFOs: Christian evangelical and charismatic Christianity narratives about UFOs; Islam and exorcisms; Muslims who believe UFOs can be warded off by the Koran; the use of exorcism in the Santa Muerte tradition; occult rocket scientist Jack Parson, occultist Aleister Crowley, Parsons' love Marjorie Cameron's UFO experience (interestingly, Cameron appeared in a Kenneth Anger movie), and the Aeon of Horus - Albert K. Bender, the first notable case of someone who claims to have had Men in Black encounters, and his interest in the horror genre and pop occultism - Demonic possession narratives; The Exorcist; charismatic Christians and Pentecostals in relation to exorcisms; grocery store grimoires and ritual magick's connection to the tradition of exorcism; exorcism in various religions; Catholicism and exorcism; the mediation of these topics in popular culture - The concept of techno-realism; virtual worlds and virtual reality; David Cronenberg's eXistenz and the UFO experience; hallucination and reality in Nightmare on Elm Street 3; the real life inspiration for A Nightmare on Elm Street and parallels to the alien abduction experience - Revulsion to the extraordinary and anomalous as well as longing for the extraordinary and anomalous in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and Hellraiser - The media and anomalous experiences - The Natalie Portman-starring adaptation of Jeff Vander Meer's weird fiction tale Annihilation; The Color Out of Space and the desire for experiences beyond the normal comprehension of existence; transcendental experience in The Color Out of Space; horror and union in The Color Out of Space; the ultimate other as both beautiful and horrifying; the Necronomicon and ritual magick - Techno-realism and John Carpenter's They Live; parallels between They Live and Robert Anton Wilson's fnords in The Illuminatus Trilogy - Tobe Hooper's Invaders from Mars remake; paranoia and fear in the films of Tobe Hooper; Tobe Hooper's Stephen King adaptation Salem's Lot and it's parallels to Invasion of the Body Snatcher and it's marketing as a vampire story; the character of Mr. Barlow in Salem's Lot; Tobe Hooper's apocalyptic alien vampire movie Lifeforce - Druids, ritual witchcraft, synchronicity, and apocalypticism in Halloween III: Season of the Witch; the weirdness of John Carpenter's religious-apocalypse-meets-quantum-physics-meets-time-travelers-meets-aliens movie Prince of Darkness; Prince of Darkness's "broadcasts" which act as premonitions transmitted through the characters dreams - The British horror anthology The House That Dripped Blood and why it will be taught in the course; Jacques Tourneur's Curse of the Demon and expectations around anomalous experiences - Horror and philosophy; Eugene Thacker's In the Dust of This Planet; the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher and the eerie - And more!

On this episode, we speak to Professor Ron Broglio, who works in the Department of English at Arizona State University. Ron has authored or edited a number of books on animal studies, as well as producing or curating a number of art exhibitions exploring human/animal relationships. His books include Surface Encounters: Thinking With Animals and Art, which was published in 2011 by the University of Minnesota Press, and 2018's Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies, which he co-edited with Lynn Turner and Undine Sellbach. Today, however, we talk about his 2022 book Animal Revolution, from the University of Minnesota Press, which features illustrations by Marina Zurkow and an afterword by Eugene Thacker. This episode is brought to you by AASA (the Australasian Animal Studies Association), which you should join today. It is also brought to you by the Animal Publics book series at Sydney University Press. And a big thanks to Elizabeth Usher (veganthused.com), AKA MC Pony, for producing our updated theme tune!

Horror, fashion, and the end of the world … In this episode, first aired in 2014, but maybe even more relevant today, things get weird as we explore the undercurrents of thought that link nihilists, beard-stroking philosophers, Jay-Z, and True Detective. Today on Radiolab, a puzzle. Jad's brother-in-law wrote a book called 'In The Dust of This Planet'. It's an academic treatise about the horror humanity feels as we realize that we are nothing but a speck in the universe. For a few years nobody read it. But then … It seemed to show up on True Detective.   Then in a fashion magazine.   And then on Jay-Z's back. How?  We talk nihilism with Eugene Thacker & Simon Critchley, leather jackets with June Ambrose, climate change with David Victor, and hope with the father of Transcendental Black Metal - Hunter Hunt Hendrix of the band Liturgy. Also, check out WNYC Studio's On the Media episode Staring into the Abyss, in it Brooke Gladstone and Jad Abumrad continue their discussion of nihilism and its place in history. You can find Eugene Thacker's 'In The Dust Of the Planet' at Zero Books Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today.     Radiolab is on YouTube! Catch up with new episodes and hear classics from our archive. Plus, find other cool things we did in the past — like miniseries, music videos, short films and animations, behind-the-scenes features, Radiolab live shows, and more. Take a look, explore and subscribe!

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While Richard is away, Michael and Matt take control of the Abyss for a spoiler-filled discussion of their co-hosts debut short story, "Beyond the Triangle," as published in the anthology, Dark Words: Stories of Urban Legends and Folk Lore, edited by Jamie and Matt Wildasin.  Before that, though, we talk about summer horror reads, the Broken Eye Books anthologies Cootie Shot Required and Whether Change, Lisa Quigley's Hell's Bells, the philosophies of Thomas Ligotti and Eugene Thacker, Tim Meyer's Paradise Club, and... Food Network? We also peel back another layer of the giant onion that is Matt Brandenburg as he reveals some publishing secrets of his own... (Recorded June 6, 2021) Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring

What's good world, we're back from the crypt with some more of that hood philosophy shit, and on this episode of the podcast, I'm revisiting the spooky roots of hood philosophy by venturing back into the abyss of the horror of philosophy.  I'm talking the occult, mysticism, demonology, black metal, and all that other fun shit that goes bump in the night that force us to confront some of the more complicated issues in philosophy, including whether the practice itself is even worthy of merit.  Shout out to Eugene Thacker, whose work in the book 'In The Dust Of This Planet' made this episode possible!

In the early 20th century, HP Lovecraft revolutionized horror literature by bringing horror to a cosmic level of despair and incorporating a philosophical level of pessimism to mankind's place in uncaring universe. This concept has been expanded and developed in recent decades, with authors like Thomas Ligotti and Eugene Thacker helping bring cosmic horror into mainstream pop culture like True Detective and Jay-Z music videos.  In a special between season episode, we are joined by Tomas Lindberg of Swedish Death Metal icons At The Gates to discuss Lovecraft, cosmic horror, pessimist philosophy, and their influence on the upcoming At The Gates album "The Nightmare of Being" Stick around after the interview to hear the announcement of our upcoming listener's choice mini series, where you can vote for what you want us to cover in our next mini series!   Join our Patreon! Follow us on Instagram, Twitter , Facebook

Dans ce second épisode, l'équipe de La Saveur de la finitude s'intéresse à la question de la limite dans la fiction d'horreur : comment l'excès (d'adjectifs, de formes et d'images) peut nous permettre d'appréhender la limite de ce qui est pensable, comment dire et représenter l'indicible, et quelles sont les conséquences du franchissement de la limite Avec : - Guillaume Baychelier, plasticien et philosophe - Lucile Bokobza, philosophe, astrobiologiste en devenir et musicienne - Jean-Christophe Dardart, psychologue - Ambroise Garel, journaliste - Julie Le Baron, journaliste Générique et habillage : Lucile Bokobza Montage : Ambroise Garel Logo et illustrations : Guillaume Baychelier Liste non exhaustive des œuvres citées dans cet épisode : Livres et articles - Georges Bataille, L'Expérience Intérieure - Edmund Burke, Recherche philosophique sur l'origine de nos idées du sublime et du beau - Marcel Détienne et Jean-Pierre Vernant, Les ruses de l'intelligence : La mètis des Grecs - Maître Eckhart, Les Sermons - Katarzyna Gadomska, Les techniques anxiogènes dans le cinéma d'horreur et dans la littérature d'épouvante - Emmanuel Kant, Analytique du sublime - H.P. Lovecraft, Les Montagnes Hallucinées - Eugene Thacker, Horror of Philosophy Tome 2: Starry Speculative Corpse - Linda Williams. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess, Film Quarterly 44.4 Films, vidéos et documentaires - L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze, Pierre-André Boutang - Altered States, Ken Russel - Annihilation, Alex Garland - Bird Box, Susanne Bier - Cigarette Burns (Master of Horror, épisode 8), John Carpenter - Event Horizon, Paul Anderson - Existenz, David Cronenberg - In The Mouth of Madness, John Carpenter - The Last Wave, Peter Weir - The Ninth Configuration, William Peter Blatty Œuvres picturales - Caspar David Friedrich - John Milton - Luca Signorelli Jeux vidéo - Call of Cthulhu, Cyanide Studios - Dead Space, Visceral Games - Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Silicon Knights - Observer, Bloober Team - Resident Evil, Capcom

A riff on the meaning of "planetary" culture, thinking, and ontology. This week I riffed on the nomenclature starting first with Eugene Thacker's via negativa and cosmological approach in In the Dust of this Planet and Lynn Margulis's biological approach in Symbiotic Planet. Next week we'll explore the socio-political dimensions of this inquiry by revisiting Against the Web (Michael Brooks), Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology (William Irwin Thompson), and A Sociable God (Ken Wilber). Support this podcast on Patreon | Watch Mutations Streams on YouTube | Podcast art by J. Andrew World --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mutations/message

PODCAST #08 Ed. Materia Oscura: Mauro Reis y Federica Matelli Editorial de literatura y filosofía, Madrid. -Federica Matelli: Investigadora independiente y Doctora asociada AGI. Arte, Globalización, Interculturalidad (UB.Universidad de Barcelona). Colaboradora de la editorial Materia Oscura. -Mauro Reis: Editor literario, traductor independiente y colaborador de la editorial Materia Oscura. Título “Metáforas de la oscuridad. Eugene Thacker y las ruinas del saber” Título “Pandemia 2020. Virus, monstruos y horror” Moderador: Fernando Manjarrés (Editor Materia Oscura) Resumen En esta charla, nuevamente moderada por Fernando Manjarrés, escucharemos a Federica Matelli y Mauro Reis hablar sobre Eugene Thacker, estética y un análisis muy certero sobre la pandemia. Federica Matelli profundiza en la obra de Eugene Thacker, en concreto de su serie de volúmenes publicados con Materia Oscura: “El horror de la filosofía”. Un horror que remite a lo desconocido y que por ende, al no poder controlarlo, choca con el deseo de control del pensamiento occidental. Matelli analiza más concretamente el segundo volumen “Rutilante cadáver especulativo”. Filosofía orientada a los objetos, artistas que especulan en sus obras sobre los objetos tecnológicos más allá del humano… Mauro Reis nos presenta una reflexión sobre el elemento de horror en la actual pandemia a través del análisis de las representaciones de lo horrible en la línea de Nick Land y sus hipótesis sobre el “Horror abstracto” y a través también de las categorías contenidas en “En el polvo de este planeta” de Eugene Thacker. ¿Dónde se encuentra la línea de separación entre terror y horror en la presente pandemia? ¿Cuáles son las representaciones de lo horrible en el presente caso? ¿Qué relaciones se dan entre la noción de monstruo y las representaciones víricas? ¿Qué hay entonces de monstruoso en un virus? ¿Dónde se sitúa el virus en la línea que va del “horror monstruoso” al “horror abstracto”? Por último, esto me llevará a una reflexión sobre el horror y lo inhumano. Federica Matelli Investigadora, profesora y agente cultural italiana. Se doctoró en “Teoría e historia del arte contemporáneo” en la Universidad de Barcelona. Anteriormente, se licenció en “Filosofía, estética y teoría del arte contemporáneo” en la Universidad de Pisa, y realizó un Máster en “Curaduría y prácticas culturales en arte y nuevos medios” en ESDI y la Universidad Ramón Llull, organizado por el MECAD, el Centro de Medios de Arte y Diseño. Poco después comenzó a trabajar como comisaria e investigadora independiente. Ha comisariado diferentes selecciones de vídeos y exposiciones y colaborado con festivales, muestras e instituciones de prestigio internacional, entre ellas el ZKM | Centro de Arte y Tecnología de los Medios (Karlsruhe, Alemania, Beca MECAD 2006). Matelli ha dictado conferencias en seminarios y congresos de diferentes instituciones y universidades, ha realizado investigaciones para organismos públicos y privados dedicados al arte y ha publicado ensayos, artículos científicos y críticos, reseñas de arte y cultura contemporánea en diversas revistas, catálogos y plataformas en línea e impresas. A partir del 2018 colabora con la Editorial Materia Oscura como autora y traductora. Mauro Reis Editor literario y traductor independiente nacido en Ciudad de México. Ha editado las antologías “Aceleracionismo. Estrategias para una transición al postcapitalismo (2018)” y “Neo-operaismo (2020)”, ambos para la editorial argentina Caja Negra. Actualmente trabaja en la edición de un libro sobre narrativa weird, horror y pensamiento especulativo. Como traductor se especializa en filosofía y pensamiento político contemporáneos. Vive en Portugal.

Ed. Materia Oscura: David Wiehls Abraham Cordero Editorial de literatura y filosofía, Madrid. Viernes, 3 de julio de 2020 -Abraham Cordero: Colaborador de Materia Oscura Título “Shestov desencadenado. Tanatofilia, o por una filosofía de la muerte.” - David Wiehls: Colaborador de la Editorial Materia Oscura. Título de David Wiehls “Sub specienihili” Moderador: Fernando Manjarrés (Editor Materia Oscura) Duración del episodio 01:29:00 Resumen En la primera de las intervenciones que dirige la editorial Materia Oscura, con el editor Fernando Manjarrés junto a los filósofos David Wiehls y Abraham Cordero, nos adentraremos dentro de la filosofía del límite, el realismo especulativo, el horror en la filosofía, el aceleracionismo y el CCRU (Unidad de Investigación de Cultura Cibernética). Ambos filósofos son de la Universidad de Barcelona y compañeros del grupo de investigación Límite. A su vez, colaboran con Materia Oscura y nos exponen su caso más relevante: Los Escritos del CCRU 1997-2003. Haremos un viaje desde Parménides, Deleuze, Heidegger a Quentin Meillassoux, Eugene Thacker, Ray Brassier, Thomas Metzinger, Lev Shestov, Miguel de Unamuno y Nick Land, entre otros muchos. Abraham Cordero Graduado en Filosofía y máster en Pensamiento Contemporáneo y Tradición Clásica por la Universitat de Barcelona, donde actualmente cursa sus estudios de doctorado. Su investigación gira en torno a las principales corrientes de pensamiento actuales desde un marco existencialista, con un claro enfoque en el aceleracionismo y el realismo especulativo. Tras colaborar varios años con el grupo de investigación GIRCHE y trabajar desde un cuadro postdisciplinar cuestiones en relación con la globalización, el laicismo o la filosofía de la religión, formó junto a otros tres compañeros el grupo de investigación Límite; desde entonces organiza e imparte un seminario en la Universitat de Barcelona centrado en la vanguardia del pensamiento filosófico, abordando dichas corrientes desde una perspectiva clásica y ecléctica. También ha trabajado como traductor para Materia Oscura Editorial, en un esfuerzo por acercar los Escritos del CCRU (traducción y prólogo) al público de habla hispana. David Wiehls Graduado en Filosofía y estudiante del máster de Pensamiento Contemporáneo y Tradición Clásica en la Universidad de Barcelona. En 2019 formó junto a otros tres compañeros un grupo de trabajo e investigación bajo el nombre Límite, el cual pretende fomentar la producción de un pensamiento filosófico original en un diálogo con las corrientes filosóficas de vanguardia. Este trabajo cristalizó en el seminario Filosofías por venir, en el que se exploraron el realismo especulativo, el aceleracionismo y el pesimismo moderno, así como una relectura de Deleuze bajo la tesis de la antropología como pensamiento caníbal. Sus líneas de investigación se centran en los debates en torno a los nuevos materialismos, el idealismo alemán y la relación entre ontología y matemáticas. Además, ha traducido y prologado los Escritos del CCRU en la editorial Materia Oscura, con la que colabora como redactor en su blog. https://materiaoscuraeditorial.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Organiza Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad de Granada Colabora Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria y Patrimonio Unidad de Cultura Científica y de la Innovación FECYT-Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Master Producción e Investigación en Arte. Universidad de Granada Producción de Sonido Andrés Cándido Música José López Montes - Funky Riff https://www.lopezmontes.es/ Identidad Patricia Crespo Robles Divulgación RRSS Raquel Victoria Rodríguez

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For our second show we are taking a deep dive into all things viral and bacterial, as Deadly Doses looks to the origins of the contagion narrative and ask why its such a pervasive trope within the horror genre. From the Black Plague to STD's, we examine the allure of viral films and what it is about them that makes us squirm with delight. A massive thanks to the production team and special thanks to Sean Doyle, Emmett Cleary and Paul Cooke. Films discussed include- Seventh Seal (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1957 ) The Omega Man (dir. Boris Sagal, 1971)12 Monkeys (dir. Terry Gilliam,1995)Pontypool (dir. Bruce McDonald, 2008 ) Make sure to check out the radio play "Pontypool Changes Everything."It Follows (dir David Robert Mitchell, 2014)For recommend reading on today's podcast see:Priscilla Wald, "Contagious. Cultures, Carriers, and The Outbreak Narrative. "(2008)Devendra P. Varma ,"The Gothic Flame: Being a History of the Gothic Novel in England, Its Origins, Efflorescence, Disintegration, and Residuary Influences." (1966)Teri Shors, "Encounters in Virology."(2003)Norman, F. Cantor, "In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made." (2015)Richard Preston, "The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story." (1994)Eugene Thacker, "The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture." (2006)

“Our place is to think, to continue speaking of chaos, not being stupid enough to think we can take its side. There are no sides.”~Alejandro de Acosta The essay read this episode, the third in a trilogy on approaches to nihilism by Alejandro de Acosta, is included in The Impossible, Patience: Critical Essays 2007 – 2013 published by Ardent Press and available from Little Black Cart. The Impossible, Patience at ArdentPress.comThe Impossible, Patience at LittleBlackCart.comThe Impossible, Patience at Amazon.comDesert (‘hand’ cover art) at LittleBlackCart.comDesert (‘city’ cover art) at LittleBlackCart.comBack issues of Sovereign Self at LittleBlackCart.comBack issues of My Own at LittleBlackCart.com Back issues of The Anvil Review at LittleBlackCart.comSpectacle of Society: Stories & Reviews selected from The Anvil at LittleBlackCart.com Texts and authors referenced in Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism are available to be freely downloaded, printed, and distributed, from The Anarchist Library. Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism at TheAnarchistLibrary.orgAlejandro de Acosta at TheAnarchistLibrary.orgDesert at TheAnarchistLibrary.org At the time of this posting, In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy vol.1, by Eugene Thacker, was available at the following sites. In the Dust of This Planet pdfHorror of Philosophy series from Zer0 Books Francois Laruelle’s On the Black Universe is included in Dark Nights of the Universe (Novo Pan Klub). Dark Nights of the Universe from NamePublications.org If there is a Little Black Cart essay you would like me to

Reading excerpts from thinker and philosopher Eugene Thacker's latest work, "Infinite Resignation." Thacker is a professor at the New School in NYC, and in his essay "On Pessimism" is composed of aphorisms / fragments which explore the concept. You can purchase the book here: https://tinyurl.com/y6d6k2wz I also share some thoughts about how the perspective of pessimism relates to Beyond Left & Right (BLR) philosophy. Intro/Outro song is my own composition, except for the drum track, which comes from https://www.drumdrops.com/. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/becomeother

"The world is not simply composed of physical causes strung together in strictly materialistic and mechanical fashion," writes Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal in his seminal book, Authors of the Impossible. "The world is also a series of meaningful signs requiring a hermeneutics for their decipherment." This, in a nutshell, is Kripal's position vis à vis the fact of paranormal experience, a fact that he has explored in numerous works of scholarship over the last 25 years. For Kripal, whether we see supernatural entities as beings from other worlds or creatures of the human imagination is secondary to the question of whether they merit serious philosophical thought and consideration. On that point, he says, "it's not an option to be neutral." JF and Phil had the honor of sitting down with Jeffrey Kripal to discuss the super-natural, the sacred, and the reasons why these categories remain as vital now as they ever have been. Header image: "Artist's Impression of the Mothman," by Tim Bertelink, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mothman_Artist%27s_Impression.png). REFERENCES Jeffrey J. Kripal, Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo8490174.html), The Serpent's Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion (https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo4126089.html), Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal (https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo5892347.html), The Super Natural: Why the Unexplained is Real (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530045/the-super-natural-by-whitley-strieber-and-jeffrey-j-kripal/9780143109501/) (with Whitley Strieber), and Changed in a Flash: One Woman's Near-Death Experience and Why a Scholar Thinks it Empowers Us All (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576933/changed-in-a-flash-by-elizabeth-g-krohn/9781623173036/) (with Elizabeth G. Krohn) Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/) Wouter Hanegraaff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Hanegraaff), historian of hermetic philosophy John Keel, [The Mothman Prophecies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMothmanProphecies) Graham Harman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman) and Eugene Thacker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Thacker), philosophers J. F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice (https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/reclaiming-art-in-the-age-of-artifice/) E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (https://www.amazon.com/Witchcraft-Oracles-Magic-among-Azande/dp/0198740298) The X-Men (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men) (Marvel Comics) Special Guest: Jeffrey J. Kripal.

In what could be their first trio podcast, co-hosts James, Emily, and B tarry with the Preface and a Chapter titled “Occult Philosophy” from Eugene Thacker’s In the Dust of this Planet: Horror of Philosophy, vol. 1. Before launching in, James shares some good news, and B befriends a finger monster. The team was at […]

Father Time — his 2017 sash bloodied and muddied, no doubt — will soon hand off the baton to Baby New Year and, like the reluctant old fellow reaching the end of his tenure, we have some feelings about it. It's been a weird one, and we're obviously not holding our breaths hoping for a respite in the next calendar year. So in anticipation of emotions of all kinds, we present The Feelings Show: three interviews from that past that helped us deal with, you know —  things. 1. Rebecca Solnit, writer and historian, on her impatience with despair and her insistence that the future is unknowable — and therefore full of potential. 2. Robert Wright [@robertwrighter], writer and theologian, on how adopting basic mindfulness techniques could improve our lives and help us avoid outrage fatigue. 3. Jad Abumrad [@JadAbumrad], host of WNYC's Radiolab, and Eugene Thacker, professor of media studies at The New School, on nihilism's powerful grip on our culture. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

What can the notion of "excommunication" contribute to our thoughts about communication, theology and God? What does the God talked about by Jesus have to do with excommunication? Books referred to in this episode include Excommunication: Three Inquiries Into Media by Alexander Galloway, Eugene Thacker and Mackenzie Wark, Phaedrus by Plato, Twelve Chapters on the Faith (supposedly by Gregory Thaumaturgus/Neocaesarea). Zizek’s Jokes by Slavoj Zizek. Hughes Mearns's poem Atagonish also makes an entrance at some point.

Eugene Thacker‘s wonderful Horror of Philosophy series includes three books – In the Dust of this Planet (Zero Books, 2011), Starry Speculative Corpse (Zero Books, 2015), and Tentacles Longer than Night (Zero Books, 2015) – that collectively explore the relationship between philosophy (especially as it overlaps with demonology, occultism, and mysticism) and horror (especially of the supernatural sort). Each book takes on a particular problematic using a particular form from the history of philosophy, from the quaestio, lectio, and disputatio of medieval scholarship, to shorter aphoristic prose, to productive “mis-readings” of works of horror as philosophical texts and vice versa. Taken together, the books thoughtfully model the possibilities born of a comparative scholarly approach that creates conversations among works that might not ordinarily be juxtaposed in the same work: like Nishitani, Kant, Yohji Yamamoto, and Fludd; or Argento, Dante, and Lautramont. Though they explore topics like darkness, pessimism, vampiric cephalopods, and “black tentacular voids,” these books vibrate with life and offer consistent and shining inspiration for the careful reader. Anyone interested in philosophy, theology, modern literature and cinema, literatures on life and death, the history of horror…or really, anyone at all who appreciates thoughtful writing in any form should grab them – grab all of them! – and sit somewhere comfy, and prepare to read, reflect, and enjoy. For Thacker’s brand-new book Cosmic Pessimism (published by Univocal with a super-groovy black-on-black cover) go here. Thacker is co-teaching a course with Simon Critchley on “Mysticism” at the New School for Social Research this fall 2015. You can check out the description here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eugene Thacker‘s wonderful Horror of Philosophy series includes three books – In the Dust of this Planet (Zero Books, 2011), Starry Speculative Corpse (Zero Books, 2015), and Tentacles Longer than Night (Zero Books, 2015) – that collectively explore the relationship between philosophy (especially as it overlaps with demonology, occultism, and mysticism) and horror (especially of the supernatural sort). Each book takes on a particular problematic using a particular form from the history of philosophy, from the quaestio, lectio, and disputatio of medieval scholarship, to shorter aphoristic prose, to productive “mis-readings” of works of horror as philosophical texts and vice versa. Taken together, the books thoughtfully model the possibilities born of a comparative scholarly approach that creates conversations among works that might not ordinarily be juxtaposed in the same work: like Nishitani, Kant, Yohji Yamamoto, and Fludd; or Argento, Dante, and Lautramont. Though they explore topics like darkness, pessimism, vampiric cephalopods, and “black tentacular voids,” these books vibrate with life and offer consistent and shining inspiration for the careful reader. Anyone interested in philosophy, theology, modern literature and cinema, literatures on life and death, the history of horror…or really, anyone at all who appreciates thoughtful writing in any form should grab them – grab all of them! – and sit somewhere comfy, and prepare to read, reflect, and enjoy. For Thacker’s brand-new book Cosmic Pessimism (published by Univocal with a super-groovy black-on-black cover) go here. Thacker is co-teaching a course with Simon Critchley on “Mysticism” at the New School for Social Research this fall 2015. You can check out the description here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eugene Thacker‘s wonderful Horror of Philosophy series includes three books – In the Dust of this Planet (Zero Books, 2011), Starry Speculative Corpse (Zero Books, 2015), and Tentacles Longer than Night (Zero Books, 2015) – that collectively explore the relationship between philosophy (especially as it overlaps with demonology, occultism, and mysticism) and horror (especially of the supernatural sort). Each book takes on a particular problematic using a particular form from the history of philosophy, from the quaestio, lectio, and disputatio of medieval scholarship, to shorter aphoristic prose, to productive “mis-readings” of works of horror as philosophical texts and vice versa. Taken together, the books thoughtfully model the possibilities born of a comparative scholarly approach that creates conversations among works that might not ordinarily be juxtaposed in the same work: like Nishitani, Kant, Yohji Yamamoto, and Fludd; or Argento, Dante, and Lautramont. Though they explore topics like darkness, pessimism, vampiric cephalopods, and “black tentacular voids,” these books vibrate with life and offer consistent and shining inspiration for the careful reader. Anyone interested in philosophy, theology, modern literature and cinema, literatures on life and death, the history of horror…or really, anyone at all who appreciates thoughtful writing in any form should grab them – grab all of them! – and sit somewhere comfy, and prepare to read, reflect, and enjoy. For Thacker’s brand-new book Cosmic Pessimism (published by Univocal with a super-groovy black-on-black cover) go here. Thacker is co-teaching a course with Simon Critchley on “Mysticism” at the New School for Social Research this fall 2015. You can check out the description here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world is increasingly unthinkable: planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. Inspired by Eugene Thacker’s book in the same name, Sound For The End Of The...

Josef talks to Daniel Colucciello Barber who is the author of Deleuze and the Naming of God: Post-Secularism and the Future of Immanence (Edinburgh UP, 2014) and On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity (Cascade, 2011), as well as a co-author (with Alexander Galloway, Nicola Masciandaro, and Eugene Thacker) of Dark Nights of the Universe (2013). He received his PhD from Duke University, where he worked in Religious Studies and the Program in Literature. His work – which has appeared in various journals – concerns the intersections between continental philosophy, race, religion, queer theory, secularism, and media. (Source: https://www.ici-berlin.org/profile/barber/)

Molecular Aesthetics | Symposium Symposium at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, July 15 -17, 2011 in cooperation with DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT). Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the 'molecular' is not, as Eugene Thacker has recently remarked, necessarily about 'molecules' in a conventional scientific sense. Rather the concept is at the heart of a Deleuzian challenge to hierarchies of matter/form and molar/molecular. In A Thousand Plateaus the 'molecular' is synonymous with concepts of becoming, deterritorialisation and multiplicity. In practice, this means that Deleuze and Guattari challenge the genetic determinism that is often associated with molecular biology. When drawing on the work of Jacob and Monod, for example, they conceptualise the relationship between nucleic acids and proteins in terms of 'expression' and 'content'. The existence of what Deleuze and Guattari call a 'pure line of expression' (DNA) gives living organisms a high degree of deterritorialisation. This 'molecular' vision is developed most fully in Deleuze's work on aesthetics, and in particular his work on music, literature and film. In all of this work Deleuze adopts a radically materialist perspective. As far as music is concerned, he suggests that it might be possible to move away from thinking in terms of a musical 'matter' on which 'form' is imposed (this would in turn imply a hierarchy of matter, life, and spirit). In short, the coupling of 'matter-form' might be replaced by 'matter-force'. In this way, certain kinds of music would be able to render audible forces that would otherwise be non-audible. Similarly, as far as literature is concerned, Deleuze's molecular perspective highlights the ways in which writing is capable of rendering impersonal affects, percepts and singularities. In the case of film, Deleuze's reading of Bergson's materialism leads him to propose a radical immanence of the image in matter. /// Der Begriff des „Molekularen“ bei Gilles Deleuze und Pierre-Félix Guattari bezieht sich, wie Eugene Thacker jüngst angemerkt hat, nicht unbedingt auf „Moleküle“ im wissenschaftlichen Sinn. Vielmehr ist er die Spitze, die Deleuze gegen die Hierarchien von Materie/Form und Molar/Molekular wendet. „Molekular“ steht in Tausend Plateaus gleichbedeutend mit Werden, Deterritorialisierung, Multiplizität. Die beiden Autoren formulieren daraus eine Kampfansage an den genetischen Determinismus, der beharrlich mit der Molekularbiologie in Zusammenhang gebracht wird. In ihrer Behandlung des Werks von François Jacob und Jacques Monod interpretierten sie die Beziehung zwischen Nukleinsäuren und Proteinen unter dem Aspekt von „Ausdruck“ und „Inhalt“. Die Existenz dessen, was Deleuze und Guattari als „reine Linie des Ausdrucks“ (DNS) bezeichnen, verleiht dem lebenden Organismus einen hohen Grad an Deterritorialisierung. Am stärksten ausgeprägt ist der „molekulare“ Blick in Deleuzes Schriften zur Ästhetik, insbesondere in jenen zu Musik, Literatur und Film, in denen er eine radikal materialistische Position bezieht. In Bezug auf die Musik spekuliert er, dass es möglich sein müsse, von der Vorstellung einer musikalischen „Materie“, die in eine „Form“ gezwungen wird (und ihrerseits eine Hierarchie von Materie, Leben und Geist voraussetzt), abzugehen und die Dualität Materie-Form durch Materie-Kraft zu ersetzen. Bestimmte Arten der Musik könnten damit unhörbare Kräfte hörbar machen. In der Literatur erhellt der molekulare Blick, wie unpersönliche Affekte, Empfindungen und Singularitäten sich in Worte fassen lassen. Und in seiner Filmtheorie postuliert Deleuze ausgehend vom Materialismus Bergsons eine radikale Immanenz des Bilds in der Materie.