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

[Mark Kohut]

I like the ambitious pretension of that phrase " the thought of the limit of all thought"......

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> On Oct 25, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Tommy Pinecone <endaflynn345 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Supposedly a a True Detective influence.
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>> > 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_
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