Eugene Thacker: Cosmic Pessimism
Sat, May 5, 2012
4–4:30 pm
Eugene Thacker at Arika’s Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness festival
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Arika describes this program as follows:
Eugene Thacker is a writer, philosopher, and occasional noise artist. His performative lecture is concerned with Renaissance occult (musical) thinkers of the cosmic put forward the notion of the "disharmony of the world." A performed lecture on some ideas that you may be interested in, and which variously concern: pessimism and life, maybe going beyond the moral or metaphysical connotations those concepts usually have.
Mute Magazine’s "Occultural Studies" columnist, philosopher, and occasional noise artist Eugene Thacker. He’s written on science fiction, horror, continental philosophy, politics, culture, science, and technology.
For more information, visit arika.org.uk.
Free with Museum admission; no special ticketing required.
