In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy): Amazon.co.uk: Eugene Thacker: 9781846946769: Books

[Tommy Pinecone]

This fellow sounds like the Dan Brown of philosophy.
" In Thacker's hands, philosophy is not academic logic-chopping; instead,
it is the thought of the limit of all thought, especially as it dovetails
into occultism, demonology, and mysticism."
Thank God, philosophy is fun now. Don't know about you, but it sounds far
too sexy and 'modern'-in all its worse connotations-for my liking.
A good study of nihilism is "The Anatomy of Negation". One of the only
studies I've read that didn't turn it into a theme for your teenage years.
Maybe it's the times, but the recent appeal of nihilism has spawned a great
deal of hack-academic work that is more often than not farcical. If John's
impression is anything to go by, I might just lump this book in with the
rest of them.

Also, what was the general reception of True-Detective here?

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:08 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I ordered a copy of this on the back of the Radiolab podcast on
> nihilism in which it featured heavily. Some P-listers will enjoy the
> show itself - http://www.radiolab.org/story/dust-planet/ - but the
> book is written in a voice that makes it weirdly inaccessible for this
> reader. It's one of those books that works as an argument for a good
> editor but I do keep meaning to try it again so there's that going for
> it at least.
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Supposedly a a True Detective influence.
> >
> >
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dust-This-Planet-Horror-Philosophy/dp/184694676X/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0V5RX3ZKBCZHRECY7H7B&dpID=41n0bSC941L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR103%2C160_
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPad-
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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