Books by Eugene Thacker

#1 Amazon Best Seller in Philosophy Criticism. The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live - a central motif of the horror genre. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. 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. Likewise, Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore and scare tactics, but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music. This relationship between philosophy and horror does not mean the philosophy of horror, if anything, it means the reverse, the horror of philosophy: those moments when philosophical thinking enigmatically confronts the horizon of its own existence. For Thacker, the genre of supernatural horror is the key site in which this paradoxical thought of the unthinkable takes place. The cover of In the Dust of this Planet can be seen in a New York gallery, on a banner at the 2014 Climate Change march in New York and on Jay-Z's back promoting Run. The book influenced the writers of the US TV series True Detective and has been lambasted by ex-Fox News broadcaster, Glenn Beck in this podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IW8OK4_1gQ

"Verden er i stigende grad utænkelig – en verden med globale katastrofer, nye pandemier, tektoniske skift, mærkeligt vejr, oliedækkede havflader, og den dunkle og konstant lurende trussel om udryddelse. Trods vores dagligdags bekymringer, behov og ønsker, bliver det stadig sværere at forstå den verden, vi lever i og er del af. At stå over for denne tanke er at stå over for en absolut grænse for vores evne til i det hele taget at få en fyldestgørende forståelse af verden."Sådan indleder Eugene Thacker I denne planets støv – der netop undersøger den menneskelige tankes grænse; hvordan tænker vi det utænkelige? Gennem dæmonologi, okkultisme, mystik og genren overnaturlig horror samt filosofisk nihilisme og pessimisme undersøger Thacker filosofiens rædsel: At vi mennesker lever på et støvkorn i et uendeligt kosmos, på en planet uden mening og i en verden, der dybest set er indifferent i forhold til menneskets behov, håb og kampe.Eugene Thacker er filosof, digter og professor i medie- studier ved The New School i New York. Han kaldes kosmisk pessimist og hans arbejde kan associeres med den spekulative realisme.

A collection of aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism.Composed of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Eugene Thacker's Infinite Resignation traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude. By turns melancholic, misanthropic, and tinged with gallows humor, Thacker's writing tenuously hovers over that point at which the thought of futility becomes the futility of thought.

Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse. But instead of using philosophy to define or to explain the horror genre, Thacker reads works of philosophy as if they were horror stories themselves, revealing a rift between human beings and the unhuman world of which they are part. Along the way we see philosophers grappling with demons, struggling with doubt, and wrestling with an indifferent cosmos. At the center of it all is the philosophical drama of the human being confronting its own limits. Not a philosophy of horror, but a horror of philosophy. Thought that stumbles over itself, as if at the edge of an abyss. Starry Speculative Corpse is the second volume of the Horror of Philosophy trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the third volume, Tentacles Longer Than Night.

Eugene Thacker is the author of several books, including In The Dust of This Planet. He teaches at the New School in New York

Always connect - that is the imperative of today's media. In this book, the author turns our usual understanding of media on its head by arguing that these moments reveal the ways the impossibility of communication is integral to communication itself - instances they call excommunication.

Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. This book clears the ground for a new philosophy of life by recovering the twists and turns in its philosophical history.