Eugene Thacker

“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever weeping the “tears of things”? In this series of meditations, Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker explore some of the key “negative affects” – both eternal and...

“We're doomed.” So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indifferent to our species-specific hopes, desires, and disappointments. In the Anthropocene, pessimism is felt everywhere but rarely given...

The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. "Scholarly advice for dark times." - The New Yorker "Provides a metric ton of misery and a lot of company." - New York Times "Probably philosophy's only beach read." - Vice A 'nihilist's devotional,' this collection...