![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Galaxies, including our Milky Way, contain giant clouds of fine dust that are light years across the ingredients for future generations of planetary systems like ours. Its a glimpse of the future: In 5 billion years, the sun will swell to engulf Earth. Dust is most commonly bits of rock or carbon-rich, soot-like grains, but in the outer solar system, far from the Suns warmth, its also common to find tiny grains of ice as well. 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. Astronomers discovered a distant star swallowing a planet for the first time ever. ![]() ![]() Particles that fall into water can deliver nutrients that feed life in the sea, creating great algal blooms. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. 4 hours ago &0183 &32 Dust intrinsically links Earth’s sands, skies, and seas. 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 this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. ![]()
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