poetix

this time for sure

Books? I Have One of Those...

Cold World Cover

Owen’s is better (and will be out sooner), but mine is cheaper - and has teh grimness. Topics discussed include:

  • The metaphysics of eternal torment in G.M. Hopkins.
  • Britney, Xasthur and Ozzy’s “Suicide Solution”.
  • Ecological disaster scenarios and the termination of worlds.
  • Existential horror.
  • The accidental shooting of librarians.
  • Iris Murdoch and disenchantment.
  • “Being dead” in Philip Larkin.
  • Coleridge and the impasses of amorous obsession.
  • The passion for the real and the concept of the urban guerilla.

As a special bonus, neither Zizek nor Badiou is anywhere mentioned by name in the text.