So far in Philosophy in the Dark, we’ve explored several themes: the monstrous deforming of the subject, cosmic pessimism, the Puritanical control of sex and fear of the unknown wilderness, the upending of ordered worlds, the horrors of environmental thought and even traversed the Internet in search of uncomfortable visions and sounds. As we shift into the latest pair of sessions – titled “Fear & Flesh / Horror of the Body”, we will draw on some of these themes again as we explore various approaches (in film and philosophy) to body horror.