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“It got so bad so quickly, we didn’t even have time to react,” says Keri Bean of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Within a week, the dust storm spanned more than twice the area of the contiguous United States and eventually encircled the whole planet, allowing just 5 percent of the normal amount of light to reach Opportunity’s solar panels. Small flecks swirled like wildfire smoke through the atmosphere, turning sun-filled midday into dusk, then night. In more than 14 Earth years of exploring the Red Planet, the rover had seen plenty of this kind of weather.īut the dust grew thicker. The Opportunity rover watched with its robotic eyes as the wind blowing through Perseverance Valley kicked puffs of rusty Mars dust into the air. 2Eugene ThackerPaperback: 978-1-78279-891-0 eBook: 978-1-78279-890-3 • Tentacles Longer Than Night Horror of Philosophy vol.It started with a spring breeze. The book influenced the writers of the US TV series True Detective and has been lambasted by ex-Fox News broadcaster, Glenn Beck in this podcast Other writing by Eugene ThackerTwo more in the series Horror of Philosophy – April 2015:• Starry Speculative Corpse Horror of Philosophy vol. For Thacker, the genre of supernatural horror is the key site in which this paradoxical thought of the unthinkable takes place.The cover of In the Dust of this Planet can be seen in a New York gallery, on a banner at the 2014 Climate Change march in New York and on Jay-Z’s back promoting Run. This relationship between philosophy and horror does not mean the philosophy of horror, if anything, it means the reverse, the horror of philosophy: those moments when philosophical thinking enigmatically confronts the horizon of its own existence. Likewise, Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore and scare tactics, but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction, film, comics, and music. In Thacker’s hands, philosophy is not academic logic-chopping instead, it is the thought of the limit of all thought, especially as it dovetails into occultism, demonology, and mysticism. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live – a central motif of the horror genre.In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world.

#1 Amazon Best Seller in Philosophy Criticism The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction.