# Eugene Thacker
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eugene thacker is a philosopher, poet and author. He is Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. His writing is often associated with the philosophy of nihilism and pessimism.
Uzumaki
In this episode of the Psyche Podcast, I bring together philosopher Eugene Thacker’s In the Dust of This Planet and Junji Ito’s Uzumaki to explore a deeper, colder form of horror—one that isn’t psychological, symbolic, or easily explained.
Thacker writes about the “world-without-us”: a reality t...
The Dark Philosophy of Cosmicism | H.P. Lovecraft
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The universe is not hostile. It is indifferent. Which is worse. Fall asleep to the complete philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft.
In this episode, we trace the full arc of Lovecraft’s life and ideas, beginning with a boy and a telescope on...
Why Consciousness Is a Curse | Thomas Ligotti for Sleep
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Thomas Ligotti wrote horror fiction as philosophical argument, producing the most uncompromising pessimist literature of the last century.
Tonight we trace the life and work of Thomas Ligotti, from a Catholic childhood in Detro...
The Feelings Show
Father Time — his 2017 sash bloodied and muddied, no doubt — will soon hand off the baton to Baby New Year and, like the reluctant old fellow reaching the end of his tenure, we have some feelings about it. It's been a weird one, and we're obviously not holding our breaths hoping for a respite in ...
Questions without Answers
In this episode, I reflect on Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited, which I recently read in its dramatic form after watching the excellent and very faithful HBO adaptation with Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones. Sitting more deeply with Professor White’s despair brought me back to Eugene Tha...
Disquiet in Tehran (Siavash Amini)
Siavash Amini is an experimental composer living in Tehran, trying to live his life and hone his craft amid United States bombings and government crackdowns. Amazingly, he is still creating. August 28th will see release of his collaboration with the American theorist and poet Eugene Thacker, Song...
Lovecraft and the Horror of the Cosmos
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Eugene Thacker, In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy Vol. 1 (Zero Books, 2011)
Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (Hippocampus Press, 2010)
H.P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927) — his clearest ...
The Moderns ep. 433
Contemporary music from everywhere, with host Kevin Press. Program:
0.00 Kyle Grimm - Serendipitous II (to 11.30)
10.58 Asuka Kakitani - Germination (to 18.55)
18.47 Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker - Leprous Doubt (for Hàn Mặc Tử) (to 30.10)
30.03 Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä -...
2. Chicken Wine, The Allure of Gillian Anderson and Backrooms (2026)
In this episode of Why Are You Making Me Watch This? George and Jayne discuss liminality and uncanny valley, how the Strava app revealed the exact co-ordinates of US military bases, the allure of Gillian Anderson and Kane Parsons’ directorial debut and box office hit Backrooms. They do so over th...
True Detective S1, E5: Would Nietzsche Agree?
Nietzsche never said that "Life is a flat circle." But the quote sort of gets attributed to him in this episode. Would Nietzsche have agreed with this sort of pessimism? Nope, but it is illuminative to consider how the misuse of his "Myth of the Eternal Return," demonstrates the shows most basic ...
