Slime Dynamics

by Ben Woodard

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Despite humanity s gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue-the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material-thereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed from the human sphere of thought and existence. Arguing that slime is a viable physical and metaphysical object necessary to produce a realist bio-philosophy void of anthrocentricity, this text explores naturephilosophie, speculative realism, and contemporary science; hyperbolic representations of slime found in the weird texts of HP Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti; as well...Read more
  • ISBN10 1780992483
  • ISBN13 9781780992488
  • Publish Date 28 September 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint John Hunt Publishing
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 84
  • Language English