%0 Journal Article %T Cosmic Pessimism %A Eugene Thacker %J continent. %D 2012 %I %X The author of After Life (University of Chicago Press) presents a series of aphorisms exploring pessimism's motility and its sessility. "A long, low funereal sigh" opens the reader onto an abrupt anatomical study of pessimism, its moral and metaphysical considerations and music. Songs of spite, of futility, of sleep, of doom and further mournful voices resound. %K Philosophy %K Pessimism %U http://www.continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/viewArticle/84