Movie night - Philosophy of Horror - Selections from "Wolves in the Throne Room"

This session is the second in the Mud, Roots, Blood and Darkness series of Philosophy in the Dark. What horror is inspired by the very changing of the climate? How does our alienation from ‘nature’ provoke anxiety and terror? What occurs when we avoid a politics of ‘green’ affirmation and immerse ourselves in the progressive blackening of the landscape (the deforming of matter, the detritus, chthonic tunneling in the Earth’s bowels, death and negativity) or landscapes of extinction?  What lies at the crossroads of black metal (a musical genre replete with misanthropic, occult and morbid imagery) and environmental philosophy? Drawing from several essays in the Melancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology¸this session will explore various interpretations of ecological thought through the lens of Black Metal itself.

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