{"title":"Eugene Thacker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEugene Thacker\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the unsettling intersections of philosophy, psychology, and the cosmos, offering profound reflections on existence and the limits of human understanding. His works invite readers to contemplate themes of cosmic pessimism and the melancholic dimensions of life beyond the human scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a blend of rigorous thought and evocative prose, these books challenge conventional perspectives, encouraging a deeper engagement with the unknown. Ideal for those drawn to philosophical inquiry and the exploration of existential thought, Eugene Thacker's writing expands the boundaries of the mind and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"infinite-resignation-by-eugene-thacker-9781912248193","title":"Infinite Resignation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author of the contemporary classic, \u003cem\u003eIn the Dust of This Planet\u003c\/em\u003e, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Scholarly advice for dark times.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Provides a metric ton of misery and a lot of company.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Probably philosophy's only beach read.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Vice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 'nihilist's devotional,' this collection of aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism offers a raw look at the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDark times lie around us and ahead of us, and what better way to survive the coming Apocalypse than by immersing yourself in some of the greatest thinkers on pessimism, brought together with his own thoughts on the subject by Eugene Thacker, author of the contemporary classic, \u003cem\u003eIn the Dust of This Planet\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, \u003cem\u003eInfinite Resignation\u003c\/em\u003e traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it often is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude. Reflecting on the universe's \"looming abyss of indifference,\" Thacker explores the pessimism of a range of philosophers, from the well-known (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Camus), to the lesser-known (E.M. Cioran, Lev Shestov, Miguel de Unamuno).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find food for thought in Thacker's handling of a range of themes in Christianity and Buddhism, as well as his engagement with literary figures (from Dostoevsky to Thomas Bernhard, Osamu Dazai, and Fernando Pessoa), whose pessimism about the world both inspires and depresses Thacker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy turns melancholic, misanthropic, and darkly funny, \u003cem\u003eInfinite Resignation\u003c\/em\u003e is a welcome antidote to the exuberant imbecility of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000646648044,"sku":"9781912248193","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23236213482868.jpg?v=1763293309"},{"product_id":"sad-planets-by-eugene-thacker-9781509562367","title":"Sad Planets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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”?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this series of meditations, Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker explore some of the key “negative affects” – both eternal and emergent – associated with climate change, environmental destruction, and cosmic solitude. In so doing, they unearth something so obvious that it has gone largely unnoticed: the question of how we should feel about climate change. Between the information gathered by planetary sensors and the simple act of breathing the air, new unsettling moods are produced for which we currently lack an adequate language. Should we feel grief over the loss of our planet? Or is the strange feeling of witnessing mass extinction an indicator that the planet was never “ours” to begin with? \u003ci\u003eSad Planets\u003c\/i\u003e explores this relationship between our all-too-human melancholia and a more impersonal sorrow, nestled in the heart of the cosmic elements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning a wide range of topics – from the history of cosmology to the “existential threat” of climate change – this book is a reckoning with the limits of human existence and comprehension. As Pettman and Thacker observe, never before have we known so much about the planet and the cosmos, and yet never before have we felt so estranged from that same planet, to say nothing of the stars beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427725394156,"sku":"9781509562367","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509562367.jpg?v=1774767385"},{"product_id":"cosmic-pessimism-by-eugene-thacker-9781937561475","title":"Cosmic Pessimism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday 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 its proper place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough pessimism may be, as Eugene Thacker says, the lowest form of philosophy, it may also contain an enigma central to understanding the horizon of the human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in a series of fragments, aphorisms, and prose poems, Thacker's \u003cem\u003eCosmic Pessimism\u003c\/em\u003e explores the varieties of pessimism and its often-conflicted relation to philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrying, laughing, sleeping\u003c\/em\u003e—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"about3 Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462733414636,"sku":"9781937561475","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781937561475-cosmic-pessimism.jpg?v=1775022746"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/eugene-thacker.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}