“Nothing matters…” – Cioran On discovering that the earth is not our earth the philosopher wandered in exile and solitude among the ruins of a depleted thought of earth, a nonhuman earth, indifferent to our needs or our desires; a planet devoid of any human […]
Eugene Thacker: The Horror of Philosophy
At first there was no specific mention of Ascrobius, but only a kind of twilight talk — dim and pervasive murmurs that persistently revolved around the graveyard outside of town, often touching upon more general topics of a morbid character,
Thomas Ligotti: Speculations in Black
The schizophrenic’s extreme transference helps us to understand, the reasons that his world is so terrifying is that he sees it in many ways unblurred by repression.—Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death Even though there is much to disagree with
Post-Metaphysics: Toward a Posthuman Speculative Schizorealism
The abject from which he does not cease separating is for him, in short, a land of oblivion that is constantly remembered.—Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror The only certain thing we know about this planet is that it is a
Base matter is external and foreign to human aspirations, and it refuses to allow itself to be reduced to the great ontological machines resulting from these aspirations. —Georges Bataille, Base Materialism and Gnosticism For Bataille, religion is not the revelation of
The Horror of Capitalism: Consuming the Body of God