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Occultural Studies 2.0: Passionate Divas

By Eugene Thacker 12 January 2011

Doomed divas, the stars of Italian silent cinema, bring the sacrificial passions of the mystic down to earth, producing new and radical effects - writ...

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Occultural Studies 1.0: Black Metal

By Eugene Thacker 24 August 2010

Increasingly DIY and nihilistic, it's not surprising that contemporary philosophy is drawn to the untilled fields of undead subculture. Recent book, H...

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The Period of the Sleeping Fits

By Eugene Thacker 16 October 2013

In his final Occultural Studies column, Eugene Thacker surveys the ‘unspeakable life’, work and dreams of surrealist poet, Robert Desnos  ...

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Black on Black

By Eugene Thacker 17 July 2013

Is black a colour, the absence of colour or a suspension of vision produced by a deprivation of light? Do we actually see black, and if so what do we ...

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