Quotes About Eugene Thacker

Pessimism is the night-side of thought, a melodrama of the futility of the brain, a lyricism written in the graveyard of philosophy.

life science) definitions. The question that runs through these disputatio is the following: What if "horror" has less to do with a fear of death, and more to do with the dread of life?

Whenever it occurs, however it occurs, pessimism has but one effect: it introduces humility into thought. It undermines the innumerable, self-aggrandizing postures that constitute the human being. Pessimism is the humility of the species that has named itself, thought furtively stumbling upon its own limitations on black wings of futility.

The question that runs through these disputatio is the following: What if "horror" has less to do with a fear of death, and more to do with the dread of life?

Each time I read, and witness the scintillating and austere construction of a system, I cannot help but to feel a certain sadness - the edifice itself is somehow depressing.

Maybe the secret of the pessimistic aphorism is actually quite simple, even formulaic: one is always pretending to be a writer.

If historical mysticism is, in the last instance, theological, then mysticism today, a mysticism of the unhuman, would have to be, in the last instance, climatological. It is a kind of mysticism that can only be expressed in the dust of this planet.

But the truth is that I am a pessimist… except when writing about pessimism. I've managed to make pessimism a form of therapy.

Prospect Park, Sunday afternoon. To feel claustrophobia even in "nature.

Pessimism's propositions have all the gravitas of a bad joke.