Notes from the Crawl Room
«Kafka wrote that ‘we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us’. Notes from the Crawl Room makes its mark more insidiously, uncovering the wounds that already exist in us and our institutions, those parts of ourselves we prefer to disavow. Disappearances, burnings, hauntings, and the violence inherent in reason: A.M. Moskowitz’s vanished selves exemplify the words of the playwright Sarah Kane, another master explorer of the psyche’s nightmarish corridors: ‘It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind.’ These are tales of psychic horror that creep under the skin and burrow their way inexorably to the heart.»
Emily Berry, poet and editor
Notes from the Crawl Room employs the lens and methods of horror writing to critique the excesses and absurdities of philosophy. Each story reveals disastrous and de-humanising effects of philosophies that are separated from real, lived experience (e. Les mer
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An antidote to philosophy that seeks to close down and shut off the imaginative potential of human thought, Notes from the Crawl Room revels in the unsettling and creative potential of stories for revealing what thinking philosophically might really mean.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 192
- ISBN
- 9781350191884
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«Kafka wrote that ‘we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us’. Notes from the Crawl Room makes its mark more insidiously, uncovering the wounds that already exist in us and our institutions, those parts of ourselves we prefer to disavow. Disappearances, burnings, hauntings, and the violence inherent in reason: A.M. Moskowitz’s vanished selves exemplify the words of the playwright Sarah Kane, another master explorer of the psyche’s nightmarish corridors: ‘It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind.’ These are tales of psychic horror that creep under the skin and burrow their way inexorably to the heart.»
Emily Berry, poet and editor
«These uncanny stories of philosophical horror surprise, delight and perplex. Notes from the Crawl Room is at once a warning of what happens when the philosophical impulse is taken too far, and a reminder of how seductive that impulse can be.»
Amia Srinivasan, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, University of