He talks about Bataille, and I am afraid I can make no sense of that, except that Bataille was interested in Buddhism and Hinduism, thus foreshadowing the final pages of this book. He talks about western mysticism, which to my mind is not unhuman at all. He brings in the horror genre, which to my mind is not unhuman at all. The author is apparently trying to explain the unhuman. This book is mostly a mash-up of promissory notes that remain unpaid. Interesting jumble, ending on a hopeful note "Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating." (Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race) Likewise, Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore and scare tactics, but as the underappreciated 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. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror.
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 this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction.
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