Eugene Thacker

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Eugene Thacker is an author and associate professor at The New School in New York. Thacker is known for his work in philosophy, media theory, and the study of genre horror and science fiction. In addition to his writing on science and technology, Thacker has written on the work of Georges Bataille, E.M. Cioran, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Arthur Schopenhauer, H.P. Lovecraft, and medieval mysticism. Thacker’s most recent books are Horror of Philosophy and After Life. Thacker periodically writes a column for Mute Magazine called "Occultural Studies." In 2012 Thacker wrote the Forewords to the English editions of the works of E.M. Cioran, published by Arcade Publishing.

Thacker is also an author of experimental fiction. His writing has appeared in anthologies such as Degenerative Prose (published by Black Ice/FC2), Diagram: Selections from the Magazine (edited by Ander Monson), and Debug: Primary Techno Noir (edited by Kenji Siratori). Thacker has produced book arts projects, and an "anti-novel" titled An Ideal for Living. With Ronald Sukenick and Mark Amerika, Thacker helped establish Alt-X Press, for which he edited the anthology Hard_Code.[1] Thacker has previously collaborated with Fakeshop,[2] Biotech Hobbyist,[3] and Merzbow.[4]

Bibliography

  • Into the Influx Incision (Mercury Arts Press, 1994)
  • Editor, Hard Code: Narrating the Network Society (Alt-X Press, 2001)
  • Biomedia (University of Minnesota Press, 2004)
  • The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture (MIT Press, 2005)
  • An Ideal for Living: An Anti-Novel (Quodlibet Books, 2006)
  • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks',' co-authored with Alexander R. Galloway (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
  • After Life (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
  • Horror of Philosophy, vol. 1 - In The Dust Of This Planet (Zero Books, 2011)
  • Dark Nights of the Universe (with Daniel Coluciello Barber, Nicola Masciandaro, and Alexander R. Galloway) ([NAME] Publications, 2013)
  • Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation (with Alexander R. Galloway and McKenzie Wark) (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
  • Co-Editor, with Nicola Masciandaro, Glossator 7: The Mystical Text (Black Clouds Course Through Me Unending), (2013)

See also

References

  1. ↑ An electronic version of the book is available at the Alt-X Press website.
  2. ↑ Fakeshop is a media art group, which has presented work at Ars Electronica, The Kitchen NYC, Siggraph, and the 2000 Whitney Biennial.
  3. ↑ Thacker collaborated with Biotech Hobbyist to produce Creative Biotechnology: A User's Manual (Locus+, 2004).
  4. ↑ Thacker produced a CD of noise music released by Extreme Records (Sketches for Biotech Research, XCD-046), as well as a collabortive CD with Merzbow, part of the Merzbow Box Set released in 2000. The Box Set also includes a book with Thacker's essay "Bataille/Body/Noise."

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