Dansk
Woodard, Ben
(forfatter)
Slime Dynamics e-bog
74,45 DKK
Despite humanity s gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residuethe trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic materialthereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed from the human sphere of thought and existence. Arguing that slime is a viable physical and metaph…
Despite humanity s gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residuethe trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic materialthereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed from the human sphere of thought and existence. Arguing that slime is a viable physical and metaphysical object necessary to produce a realist bio-philosophy void of anthrocentricity, this text explores naturephilosophie, speculative realism, and contemporary science; hyperbolic representations of slime found in the weird texts of HP Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti; as well as survival horror films, video games, and graphic novels, in order to present the dynamics of slime not only as the trace of life but as the darkly vitalistic substance of life.
E-bog
74,45 DKK
Forlag
John Hunt Publishing
Udgivet
28.09.2012
Længde
84 sider
Genrer
HPS
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781780999067
Despite humanity s gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residuethe trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic materialthereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed from the human sphere of thought and existence. Arguing that slime is a viable physical and metaphysical object necessary to produce a realist bio-philosophy void of anthrocentricity, this text explores naturephilosophie, speculative realism, and contemporary science; hyperbolic representations of slime found in the weird texts of HP Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti; as well as survival horror films, video games, and graphic novels, in order to present the dynamics of slime not only as the trace of life but as the darkly vitalistic substance of life.