We resume our journey through Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror! This week, we are “Sick to Death,” pp.147-167

This week we diverge into Aldous Huxley’s hugely influential 1954 essay, The Doors of Perception. Indispensable to all “heads.” Do not leave your head without it.

Onward and upward with Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. This week: Freaks of Salvation, pp. 119-146.

We continue with Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. This week we’ll discuss the second chapter, “Who Goes There?” pp.85-119.

Onward with Thomas Ligotti’s oddly uplifting pessimistic work, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror! We’ll read the second half of the first chapter (“The Nightmare of Being”), pp.47-84.

This week, we continue with Thomas Ligotti’s fascinating The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. By popular demand, we’ll read half of the first chapter (“The Nightmare of Being”), pp.19-46.

Explorations of The Conspiracy against the Human Race (Ligotti)

INTRODUCTION: OF PESSIMISM AND PARADOX

and from Black Seed: Issue 6

THE PUPPET AND THE BOMB

This week, two pieces of ressentiment (says I): “The Future is a Scam” and Peter Wessel Zapffe’s “The Last Messiah”.

Two more on education this week: Emma Goldman’s “The Child and its Enemies” and Layla AbdelRahim’s “Education as the Domestication of Inner Space”.

Next week, two pieces on schools and freestyle schooling. “What do we learn in schools that couldn’t be learned elsewhere?”and one from the collection Anarchist Pedagogies — “Spaces of Learning: The Anarchist Free Skool”.