Eugene Thacker : « Le suicide, c’est de l’optimisme »

Thacker, Eugene; Touverey, Baptiste

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“…Third, and at odds with both posthumanist framings and the inspiration found within the inhuman or counterhuman, an unhuman approach would banish the perspective of the human altogether. Within such an unhuman conception of life, the human loses its salience as site of meaning in the face of the overwhelming indifference of the cosmos (Thacker, 2018). An unhuman politics would not seek recourse within a dialectical move that would abolish one conception of the human in order to replace it with another, however extended, but would attempt to strike more deeply at the lure of humanisation.…”

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Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism

Dekeyser

2023

Theory, Culture & Society

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This paper centres the colonial pre-histories of ‘the digital’ to complicate posthumanist theorisations of subjectivity. Posthumanism helpfully undercuts human exceptionalism by presenting subjectivity as always-already co-constituted by technology. However, this paper argues that it insufficiently engages the human as the historico-political effect of negating the assumed non-technological colonial Other. Focusing on liberal humanism between the 16th and 19th centuries, the paper theorises the modern human as bound up in ‘technological onticide’. The presumed absence of technology became a (theo-centric, ratio-centric, bio-centric) measure of the Other’s sub-humanity, at the same time as this Other was expected to be humanised through its technologisation. An emphasis on technological onticide complicates universalist theories of subjectivity that take it as always a matter of human-technology co-constitution. The paper argues that, to confront the legacies of ontological murder, conceptual room needs to be made for inhuman, counterhuman or unhuman theories of subjectivity.

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Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism

Dekeyser

2023

Theory, Culture & Society

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“…Regarding the topic of this article, the key point lies in the mutation that, according to Thacker, the concept of monstrosity experienced as a result of the work of Lovecraft and weird fiction. Thacker (2011) claims that before Lovecraft the monstrous was always seen "as an aberration (and abomination) of nature" (107), that is to say, as an "unnatural" mixture of physical, corporeal, and theopolitical categories that destroyed the order and hierarchy of bodies (physical, social, and theopolitical) and transformed them into an indeterminate, formless flow.…”

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No one came from Outside: A critique of the abject-Lovecraftian foundations of dark ecology

León Casero,

Urabayen

2023

R. Ilha do Desterro A J. of En. Language Lit. in English and Cu

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In recent decades, philosophical reflection on the utopian has focused on the analysis of the way in which the future-possible and the radically unknown or “other” influence our present. Specifically, accelerationism and Object-oriented Ontology have identified horror and weird fiction in general, and H. P. Lovecraft in particular, as the privileged field from which to access a radically anti-humanist absolute exteriority (Outside) with the aim of developing a new anti-species worldview, one which Timothy Morton calls “Dark Ecology.” This article analyzes the philosophical foundations of this worldview, showing the exclusive and proto-fascist character it harbors, which is why it should be clearly separated from other post-humanisms and/or new materialisms based on the hybridization and interconnection characteristic of relational ontologies.

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“…The classical apophatic approach in theology does not distinguish between the degrees of darkness involved in knowing the divine. Contemporary philosopher of horror Eugene Thacker analyzed the concept of divine darkness in the texts of the Areopagite, Meister Eckhart, Angela of Foligno, the anonymous treatise "Cloud of Contemplation", John of the Cross, and Georges Bataille and distinguished three types of darkness that theologians and mystics deal with (Thacker 2015).…”

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Dark Theology as an Approach to Reassembling the Church

Shishkov

2022

Religions

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Dark theology as a theoretical approach emerged during debates on human rights and inclusion in Orthodox theology. It is realized at the junction of such disciplines as ecclesiology, political theology, philosophy, and social theory. It is based on the tools of object-oriented ontology (OOO), one of the branches of the philosophy of speculative realism. The author proposes a theoretical framework by which we can talk about God and supernatural entities as real objects included in public discourses through the collective imagination. The article discovers the basic theoretical (ontological, epistemological, and aesthetic) principles of dark theology as they apply to ecclesiology and political theology. Additionally, it discusses the existence of church dark actors who do not come within the field of vision of the theological mind (ecclesiology) illuminating ecclesial space. The author concludes by proposing a concept of reassembling the Church based on Bruno Latour’s notion of the ‘collective’.

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Eugene Thacker : « Le suicide, c’est de l’optimisme »

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Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism

Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism

No one came from Outside: A critique of the abject-Lovecraftian foundations of dark ecology

Dark Theology as an Approach to Reassembling the Church

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