I thought you had had yourself whipped again by the Rigger. This time the arabesque of scars seamed over vesicles of doll parts in milky transport. You do not know what freedom would be, at the limit. Its questions are very strict. For now, you suppose there will be proprieties, symbolic alloys, isomorphs. There’s a […]
Tag: Horror
R M Francis – Hyperplastic Other
This is sweet. Michael Flora of Nada, an imprint for “subversive musics and sound works.” has informed me of this release: Hyperplastic Other by Seattle-based computer musician R.M. Francis. It’s influenced by an eponymous critter discussed in my paper “Dark Posthumanism: the weird template.“, among other places. It’s available as a high-quality download from bandcamp or in a […]
Bataille: The Object Catastrophe
“In the course of the ecstatic vision, at the limit of death on the cross and of the blindly lived lamma sabachtani, the object is finally unveiled as catastrophe in a chaos of light and shadow, neither as God nor as nothingness, but as the object that love, incapable of liberating itself except outside of […]
Thomas Ligotti: The Red Tower
Originally posted on Southern Nights:
Perhaps it seems that I have said too much about the Red Tower, and perhaps it has sounded far too strange. Do not think that I am unaware of such things. But as I have noted throughout this document, I am only repeating what I have heard. I myself have…
Amygdalatropolis clickbait
My take: Yeager’s haphephobic protagonist /1404er/ has got over reality, family or the social and moved on – to a somewhat more tenable amnion of snuff porn, clickbait and casual online scapegoating. Amygdalatropolis inhabits our post-truth heterotopia like some virulent new literary life form, perfectly tooled for the death of worlds. And Scott Wilson: […]
Note on Cosmic Insignificance
Inspired by Michael Hausekeller’s piece “Guy Kahane on our Cosmic Significance “ I tend to think that cosmic horror writers like Lovecraft and Ligotti articulate the idea of cosmic insignificance far better than professional philosophers. Why should the vast extent of space and time inspire horror? Well, our lack of power implies an inability […]
