Posts Tagged ‘Schopenhauer’
Human being, this insignificance
At Hypertiling (a blog I should check more frequently) Fabio mentions his ambivalence towards the Lovecraftian tendency amongst the speculative nihilists – a group I would argue includes myself, Reza, Eugene Thacker, Nicola, Evan Calder Williams, SC Hickman, and probably others I am forgetting. My engagement with fictional forms of darkness my seem too hyperbolic […]
Filed under: Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, ligotti, Speculative Realism | 4 Comments
Tags: lovecraft, Schopenhauer
Ligotti’s triumphantly negative text is a philosophical, ethical, and aesthetic probing into the non-place that humans occupy in an indifferent universe. Ligotti’s touchstones range from Schopenhauer, to Nietzsche, to Zapffe to contemporaries such as David Benatar and Metzinger while also discussing classical, gothic, and weird fiction. Ligotti also touches on less expected topics such as […]
Filed under: Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, ligotti, Meillassoux, nature, ontology | 2 Comments
Tags: bahnsen, dark vitalism, negativity, Nietzsche, pessimism, Schopenhauer, Zapffe
Naught Thought 