Collapse Volume IV: Concept Horror

Collapse Volume IV: Concept Horror

Collapse Volume IV: Concept Horror (Reissued Edition)

Robin Mackay (Ed.)

Published by Urbanomic
December 2012
Associate Editor: Damian Veal
Paperback 107x175mm, 408pp
ISBN 978-0-9567750-6-1

Collapse IV features a series of investigations by philosophers, writers and artists into Concept Horror. Contributors address the existential, aesthetic, theological and political dimensions of horror, interrogate its peculiar affinity with philosophical thought, and uncover the horrors that may lie in wait for those who pursue rational thought beyond the bounds of the reasonable. This unique volume continues Collapse's pursuit of indisciplinary miscegenation, the wide-ranging contributions interacting to produce common themes and suggestive connections. In the process a rich and compelling case emerges for the intimate bond between horror and philosophical thought.


Contents
ROBIN MACKAY - Editorial Introduction
GEORGE SIEG - Infinite Regress into Self-Referential Horror: The Gnosis of the Victim
EUGENE THACKER - Nine Disputations on Theology and Horror
RAFANI - Czech Forest
CHINA MIÉVILLE - M. R. James and the Quantum Vampire: Weird; Hauntological: Versus and/or and and/or or?
REZA NEGARESTANI - The Corpse Bride: Thinking with Nigredo
JAKE AND DINOS CHAPMAN - I Can See
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ - Poems
JAMES TRAFFORD - The Shadow of a Puppet Dance: Metzinger, Ligotti and the Illusion of Selfhood
THOMAS LIGOTTI / OLEG KULIK - Thinking Horror / 'Memento Mori'
QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX - Spectral Dilemma
BENJAMIN NOYS - Horror Temporis
IAIN HAMILTON GRANT / TODOSCH - Being and Slime: The Mathematics of Protoplasm in Lorenz Oken's 'Physio-Philosophy' / Drawings
STEVEN SHEARER - Poems
GRAHAM HARMAN / KEITH TILFORD - On the Horror of Phenomenology: Lovecraft and Husserl / Singular Agitations and a Common Vertigo
KRISTEN ALVANSON - Arbor Deformia
Notes on Contributors

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