Slime dynamics : generation, mutation, and the creep of life / Ben Woodard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodard, Ben (Benjamin Graham)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life (Biology)--Philosophy.

Life (Biology).

Physical Description:

77 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Winchester, UK ; Washington, USA : Zero Books, 2012.

Summary:

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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 - there by 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 as survival horror films, video games, and graphic novels, in order to present the dynamics of slime not only as the trace of life but as life's darkly vitalistic substance. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Nightmarish Microbial 14

1.2 Fungoid Horror and The Creep of Life 26

1.3 Extra-Galactic Terror 40.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-77).

ISBN:

1780992483

9781780992488

OCLC:

800024025

Publisher Number:

99951523290