Days in the Dark

06Nov10

The second week of January is shaping up to be a deluge of darknesses: January 12th – Dark Materialism January 13th –Black Metal Theory II – Melancology January 14th – Speculative Medievalisms January 15th – Decay Culture I will be speaking at the last three – it should be an interesting week in London.

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Dark Vitalism: Some Notes

10Feb10

The following is an attempt to summarize what exactly Dark Vitalism means as a metaphysical project. In many ways, it seems that quite a bit of philosophy seems lost between overformalization (Badiou) and lack of it (Deleuze). There is either not enough or too much speculative play with the very possibility and stature of the thinker poorly examined. […]

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Darknesses

09Nov09

The limit or non-limit of darkness is its terrifying feature – if  the darkness is expansive and not invasive (oil or plague like, creeping inside organisms) then it is its formalized bound that must be decided which also allows for the possibility of a darkness within darkness. Take the following from Ligotti’s “Flowers of the […]

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