Philosophy of Horror - No Love, Deep Web: Excess, Lost Futures & Horror on the Internet

This session will explore, using Grafton Tanner’s Babbling Corpses: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts as a rough guide, the landscape of the internet – paying particular attention to anxiety, depression, absurd/ cosmic horror and ‘lost futures’ which reside on various platforms. We will tend to the horror of electronic media's ‘haunted’ quality – riffing off Mark Fisher & Jacques Derrida, exploring how chopped/repeated/distorted videos, music and temporalities lay bare existential dread and exposes fissures and breaches inherent in the media infecting our screens and lives. What eerie and uncanny things await us when we plug into a world of empty malls, serenaded by the deformed vocalizations of ghosts – or ‘babbling corpses’?

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All are welcome