Bøger af Dylan Trigg

Azimute was a dedicated site for critical essays on, and critical liaisons with, the works of Deleuze and Guattari. In its decade-long span, this rhizome in virtual space attracted nomadic talents and brazen theorists to contribute essays on a wide variety of topics from poetics to capitalism. The website is now defunct, but the works live on in this new compilation. Deleuze-inspired essays on Kathy Acker, Einsturzende Neubaten, Zoviet France, William S. Burroughs, Geoffrey Schmidt, Henri Bergson, pataphysics, and more culminate in this work of exquisite scholarship on the margins.

This book investigates key issues such as relation between atmospheres & moods, how atmospheres define psychopathological conditions such as anxiety & schizophrenia, what role it plays in producing shared aesthetic experiences, & the significance of atmospheres in political events.

What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this other side of the body has all too often been overlooked by phenomenology. In confronting this oversight, Dylan Trigg's The Thing redefines phenomenology as a species of realism, which he terms unhuman phenomenology. Far from being the vehicle of a human voice, this unhuman phenomenology gives expression to the alien materiality at the limit of experience. By fusing the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Levinas with the horrors of John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and H.P. Lovecraft, Trigg explores the ways in which an unhuman phenomenology positions the body out of time. At once a challenge to traditional notions of phenomenology, The Thing is also a timely rejoinder to contemporary philosophies of realism. The result is nothing less than a rebirth of phenomenology as redefined through the lens of horror.

From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and J. G. Ballard, The Memory of Place charts the memorial landscape that is written into the body and its experience of the world.