Editor: Robin Mackay
Associate Editor: Damian Veal
Paperback 115x175mm, 403pp. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies
Now available in a new reissued edition
About this Volume
Collapse IV features a series of investigations by philosophers, writers and artists into Concept Horror. Contributors address the existential, aesthetic, theological and political dimensions of horror, interrogate its peculiar affinity with philosophical thought, and uncover the horrors that may lie in wait for those who pursue rational thought beyond the bounds of the reasonable. This unique volume continues Collapse's pursuit of indisciplinary miscegenation, the wide-ranging contributions interacting to produce common themes and suggestive connections. In the process a rich and compelling case emerges for the intimate bond between horror and philosophical thought.
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Editorial Introduction [PDF]
Infinite Regress into Self-Referential Horror: The Gnosis of the Victim
Nine Disputations on Theology and Horror
M. R. James and the Quantum Vampire: Weird; Hauntological: Versus and/or and and/or or?
The Corpse Bride: Thinking with Nigredo
JAKE AND DINOS CHAPMAN
I Can See
The Shadow of a Puppet Dance: Metzinger, Ligotti and the Illusion of Selfhood
THOMAS LIGOTTI / OLEG KULIK
Thinking Horror / 'Memento Mori'
IAIN HAMILTON GRANT / TODOSCH
Being and Slime: The Mathematics of Protoplasm in Lorenz Oken's 'Physio-Philosophy' / Drawings
GRAHAM HARMAN / KEITH TILFORD
On the Horror of Phenomenology: Lovecraft and Husserl / Singular Agitations and a Common Vertigo
Notes on Contributors
Eliminative Culinarism (Reza Negarestani)
Jake and Dinos Chapman
No Useless Leniency (Benjamin Noys)
Object-Oriented Philosophy (Graham Harman)
Metastable Equilibrium (Keith Tilford)