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Daniel Beatty Garcia: Perhaps we could start by talking a bit about what you mean when you talk about horror.

Eugene Thacker: The kind of horror I’ve always been interested in is more about creating a mood or an atmosphere than creating a narrative, and really more idea-driven than story-driven. “Cosmic horror” writers like H. P. Lovecraft are less interested in shocking you than with the boundary between the natural and the supernatural, or the limits of our ability to know things about the world and our place in it.

In your work this incomprehension in the face of the nonhuman world is the nexus between horror and philosophy.

There’s a synergy between that kind of cosmic horror and certain philosophers who also explore the limits of our understanding. When we think about philosophy we usually think about some sort of picture of the world, and when we think about philosophers, we think about a person who knows, and who’s going to tell us how to live our lives and how to exist in the world and so on. But some philosophers are more interested in asking questions than giving an

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with Eugene Thacker

published: March, 2001

Eugene Thacker is a writer, theorist and artist. I know his work mostly through his collaboration with the New York based net performance group Fakeshop, but he has also done solo projects and is mostly a writer and theorist. Eugene Thacker's work centers around bio tech, science fiction, experimental literature, art and science. We talked at DEAF'00, The Dutch Electronic Art Festival organized by V2 in 2000.

JB: Can you tell me about your background? Your work with Fakeshop made me wonder if you have a background in art at all?

Eugene Thacker: My background is not in art actually. My background is more in critical theory, or literary theory. Basically I come from literature. In college I was really involved in the experimental literature community, zines and so on. When the web came around I got into that and hypertext. Like a lot of people at some point it made sense not to just limit yourself to just text, to try to work in different media. I have always been interested in approaching things from a theoretical viewpoint a

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Eugene Thacker

In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)

3.68 avg rating — 2,744 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions

Starry Speculative Corpse (Horror of Philosophy, #2)

3.87 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions

Cosmic Pessimism

3.72 avg rating — 471 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions

Infinite Resignation

4.01 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions

Tentacles Longer Than Night (Horror of Philosophy, #3)

3.94 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions

After Life

4.05 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions

An Ideal For Living

3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions

The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, And Culture (A Leonardo Book)

3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions

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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2018