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But otherwise: “Who told you, you had to understand? When they speak, their voices come from elsewhere. Ballard: Sleeplessness and ChronotopiaSteven Craig Hickman - J.G. P. Lovecraft- The Call of Cthulhu: Chapter 2: The Tale of Inspector LegrasseH. Ligotti’s own metaphysics is less naturalistic, and more in accord with Rust’s pessimism. To what purpose if any have they returned. If this statement sounds like it was made by a contestant for the Miss America crown, so be it. This is a Borgesian fiction within a fiction, but also one which structures our experience of the world into something that is comforting, homely; something liveable (otherwise, as Rust’s partner, Marty Hart puts it, ‘why get out of bed in the morning?’).Throughout the series, the occult overtones, as well as the stereotypical problematics of transgression (such as Hart’s familial breakdown and resurrection, followed by his problems with his daughter’s pretty conventional teenage “rebellion”), rather than puncture this diversion, serve only to shore it up. Thomas Ligotti Fri Sep 28, 2018 2:00pm 9 comments 5 Favorites [+] “There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. - Henrik Ibsen. Shall we open those eyes, now, and begin to change, metamorphosize beyond this seeming world of stasis and repetition? What do people think of the philosophy of Thomas Ligotti? You know that their sensory experience constituted a unique individual with purpose and meaning. A change that is itself a repetition of death? A well-woven detective story, a splash of occultism, a detective with alcohol issues, a dénouement, and, latterly, a transformative experience. As if all along this very realm we are in is that eternally metamorphosing infernal region of change, but that through the secret wizardry of those dark agents of time – the time of change was stopped, and that we’ve all been imprisoned in a lifeless universe of the death-drive, pursuing a circular and repetitive course of unchanging repetition. That is to say, we are merely information systems where: ‘the phenomenal self is not a thing, but a process – and the subjective experience of being someone emerges if a conscious information processing system operates under a transparent self-model’ [3].This is the “trap” of existence according to Ligotti, which allows for a novel reading of Plato’s cave in which the cave itself is the organism, and the wall the phenomenal projection of the self-model: ‘the cave in which we live our conscious life is formed by our global, phenomenal model of reality’ [4]. The Non-Metaphysics of Unprediction.Himanshu damle - Philosophy of Dimensions: M-Theory.Himanshu Damle - Quantum Informational BiochemistryHimanshu Damle - Accelerated Capital as an Anathema to the Principles of Communicative ActionHyperstition - Sorcerers and Necromancers: sorcery and the line of escape part IIHyperstition - Sorcerers and Necromancers: lines of escape or wings of the ground? Cardin:Interview).Speaking of our need to think politically Alex tells us "the amassing of negativity within a social-economic system at the affective and economic levels might trigger the calling into question of the coherency of such a system, and the emergence of the truth of it, a new world born from its ashes" (ibid. Ballard: Chrontopia and Post-Consumerist SocietySteven Craig Hickman - J.G. 128). [11] Nathan Coombs tells us that "Harman advocates a properly ontological solution in which every relation forms a new autonomous object. If euthanasia were decriminalized, it would demonstrate that we had made the greatest evolutionary leap in world history.