Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Ligotti is a contemporary horror writer whose work explores cosmic pessimism and the visceral wrongness of non-human life forms, particularly fungi and amorphous organisms that threaten human consciousness and agency. The course readings invoke him alongside Vandermeer's fictional mycologies to examine how weird fiction figures biological alterity and existential dread in the context of distributed, non-hierarchical forms of intelligence and being that challenge anthropocentric assumptions underlying both traditional AI discourse and posthuman theory.

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Ben Woodard

from Slime Dynamics

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David Roden

Subtractive-Catastrophic Xenophilia

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Braidotti is correct when she claims that a subject is necessary to provide a normative response to the posthuman predicament that entangles life in its divergent, counter-final process.[^37] The subject just is the source and address of no…[^39]: Thomas Ligotti, “The Red Tower,” Weird Fiction Review (December 19, 2011). http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/12/the-red-tower-by-thomas-ligotti. [^40]: Braidotti, The Posthuman, 140. [^41]: Roden, Posthuman Life, 184-85; Braidotti…

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