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Thomas Ligotti

writer · 9 mentions across 2 readings

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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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Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 — ATEK-639/439 — Fall 2025