Eugene Thacker’s In The Dust Of This Planet explores the literature of cosmic horror and antinatalism with a view to presenting an examination of that which is seen as philosophically unimaginable: the inevitability of humanity’s eventual extinction - apposite in relation to this recent Guardian piece of Mayer Hillman, in light of which recent critiques of antinatalism within the weird fiction seem trite; indeed, Hillman’s predictions would seem to indicate that, at this point in human history, any philosophical or ideological orientation that doesn’t include an element of antinatalsm is just a form of magical thinking: there is most likely no miracle cure to the environmental collapse which will our children and grandchildren are going to inherit and which, within a few centuries, will probably leave this planet uninhabitable for humans.
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