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It feels somewhat disjointed, starting off with in-depth examinations of Dante’s Inferno and Lautreamont’s Maldoror (neither of which are horror to me). But he hits his marks when he dives into more familiar Thacker subjects like cosmic horror and the uncanny vs. the marvelous. He makes a pretty convincing case that there is useful information to be gleaned from critiquing horror texts as philosophical treatises.
At this point I feel like Thacker is repeating himself. The motifs from the first two volumes make their appearance again in this final volume in which Thacker promises to read horror fiction as if they were serious works of philosophy. As with the previous two volumes, the wealth of references supplied by Thacker make for a dizzying if not an encyclopaedic reading experience.In the grand scheme of things Thacker does succeed in drawing out and making explicit the specific philosophical problems...
Great, especially towards the end when it got more into Lovecraft. Gave me some ideas of other books to look into.
A beloved college teacher of mine once told me about a roommate he had in grad school who used to watch professional wrestling on TV and minutely analyze the drama he saw unfolding before his eyes: the delineation of good and evil personified in the two fighters' behavior, the fickle crowd's ever-changing attitude, and much more, while all his roommates told him to just relax and enjoy the fights. This anecdote/memory of long ago came to mind as I decided to stop reading Eugene Thacker's Tentacl...
Horror and thoughtThis is thought-provoking and wide-ranging study of the limits of thought and its relation to horror in literature. Especially insightful were the discussions of Lautréamont and Junji Ito's Uzumaki.
Eu gosto muito do Thacker, e acho essa série "Horror of Philosophy" nada menos que excelente; uma investigação das relações entre filosofia e o gênero horror. Não exatamente para extrair uma filosofia do horror mas, antes, para encontrar o horror na filosofia, tratando inclusive textos literários como peças potencialmente filosóficas. Acho essa inversão diabólica muito esperta, e é o tipo de coisa que me faz sorrir. No terceiro volume - Tentacles longer than night - Thacker discute tropos da tra...
I don't have a lot more to say about this volume that I didn't say for the first, but I will say that the switch (in a way) toward philosophy gave an interesting argument and that this continues to be a pretty high-quality series. Hopefully I can get my hands on the middle volume soon.
¡Vaya forma de cerrar esta trilogía! Los tentáculos se ciernen sobre nosotros para reflexionar sobre el Infierno de Dante y Los cantos de Maldoror del Conde de Lautréamont, pasando por Blackwood, Lovecraft, Ligotti y un sin fin de libros y películas (busca el corto "Outer Space" de Peter Tscherkassky y el libro _Vampyrotheutis Infernalis_ de Vilém Flusser). Sólo tengo dos quejas: la primera, que mencioné en el Vol. 2, es que no me gustaron varias decisiones editoriales como el tipo de fuente y s...
My favorite of the trilogy.
It took a while into this series for it to really win me over, but eventually it did. A must for anyone like me who is going through an attempt to smash as much of the received wisdom anthropocentric hegemony that is they have imbibed...and of course for horror fans too.
Not a philosophy of horror, but a horror of philosophy From the beginning of the book, the author already establishes an important distinction to his project: This is not a book about the philosophy of horror, but a book about the horror of philosophy. Through the book, the author shows a vast domain about the literature from all kinds of philosophy and all kinds of horror stories (books, movies, and others), which he does not use simplistically to establish show-off connections, but in order to...
A thought provoking end to a fascinating series, Tentacles Longer Than Night opened me up to a number of ideas that will occupy me for a long time. I can’t recommend these three books strongly enough.
Simply fascinating. I will be reading more of Eugene in the future.
As an ecstatic pessimist, and jubilant nihilist, I am a big fan of Thacker. His writing, like that of Lovecraft, Liggotti, and Schopenhaeur, resonates with me at a visceral level. All three cut through the optimistic fallacies that obfuscate and strangle whatever real meaning might be found in the world. His is a philosophy consistent with the inescapable truths that 1) one day the sun will expand and incinerate the earth and 2) despite that bit of local warming the universe will die a heat deat...
