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  • Eugene Thacker

    Professor of Media Studies

    Email
    thackere@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - 79 Fifth Avenue

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    Eugene Thacker

    Profile

    View Eugene Thacker's website here.

    Degrees Held

    PhD, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University.

    Recent Publications

    Books

    Sad Planets. Co-authored with Dominic Pettman. Polity, 2024.

    Editor, Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World. Repeater/Penguin Random House, 2020.

    Infinite Resignation. Repeater Books/Penguin Random House, 2018.

    Horror of Philosophy vol. 3 - Tentacles Longer Than Night. Zero Books, 2015.

    Horror of Philosophy vol. 2 - Starry Speculative Corpse. Zero Books, 2015.

    Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media & Mediation, co-authored with Alexander Galloway & McKenzie Wark. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

    In The Dust of This Planet - Horror of Philosophy vol. 1. Zero Books, 2011.

     

    Current Courses

    Dark Entries: Notebook, Journa
    NMDS 5351, Fall 2025

    Dark Entries:Notebook, Journal
    NWRG 5351, Fall 2025

    Independent Study
    GLIB 6990, Fall 2025

    Media Theory
    NMDS 5006, Fall 2025

    Future Courses

    Independent Study
    GLIB 6990, Spring 2026

    Media Theory
    NMDS 5006, Spring 2026

    Melancholy
    NWRG 5355, Spring 2026

    Melancholy
    GLIB 5200, Spring 2026

    The Sublime
    GLIB 5460, Spring 2026

    The Sublime
    NMDS 5460, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    Independent Study
    GLIB 6990, Spring 2025

    Media Theory
    NMDS 5006, Spring 2025

    Melancholy
    NWRG 5355, Spring 2025

    Melancholy
    GLIB 5200, Spring 2025

    The Sublime
    NMDS 5460, Spring 2025

    The Sublime
    GLIB 5460, Spring 2025

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