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The Mourning of Anti-Music

By Eugene Thacker 27 March 2012

Travelling to the outer reaches of vocal performance, a recent event featuring noise artists Junko and Keiji Haino opened up the anti-political space ...

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Philosophical Doomcore

By Eugene Thacker 24 January 2012

  Objectively pessimistic or just plain grouchy? Schopenhauer’s ethics, which threw out positive conceptions of freedom and the human will, mi...

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Occultural Studies 3.0: Devil's Switchboard

By Eugene Thacker 26 May 2011

Demonology is not simply the study of demons, but of noise's assault on signal - a media theory avant la lettre, writes Eugene Thacker   Accord...

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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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