In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy): 1

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Using advanced predictive models, we have even imagined what would happen to the world if we as human beings were to become extinct.

In classical Greece the interpretation is primarily mythological – Greek tragedy, for instance, not only deals with the questions of fate and destiny, but in so doing it also evokes a world at once familiar and unfamiliar, a world within our control or a world as a plaything of the gods. There are mediative situations in which heresy, exile, or banishment carry the day, not repetition, communion, or integration.

Also, by horror I do not mean the human emotion of fear, be it manifest in a fiction film, a news report, or a personal experience. In spite of our daily concerns, wants, and desires, it is increasingly difficult to comprehend the world in which we live and of which we are a part.

Against these two common assumptions, I would propose that horror be understood not as dealing with human fear in a human world (the world-for-us), but that horror be understood as being about the limits of the human as it confronts a world that is not just a World, and not just the Earth, but also a Planet (the world-without-us).

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Another weird aspect of this book is the author’s irregular adoption of a Medieval strategic framework of approach. In Kant, it is the noumenal world that spurs human consciousness to generate a phenomenal reality: the reality of subjective, lived experience.Plus, find other cool things we did in the past — like miniseries, music videos, short films and animations, behind-the-scenes features, Radiolab live shows, and more. Horror, fashion, and the end of the world … In this episode, first aired in 2014, but maybe even more relevant today, things get weird as we explore the undercurrents of thought that link nihilists, beard-stroking philosophers, Jay-Z, and True Detective. I think what Thacker is making reference to is very much like – if not identical to – what Kant has referred to as the “noumenal” world: the “thing-in-itself. There's always death to look forward to: Nihilist Arby's and the cheerful nihilism of the Internet", The Awl, August 2, 2017.