Eugene Thacker

Yeah, so Consciousness is a horror show right there.

Then you start to get another one of his influences, which is Eugene Thacker, The Dust of This Planet.

And this is kind of where you get the cosmic horror bit, where it's like this crazy idea of... a totally indifferent world.

There are just forces outside of us that are just...

Like, yeah.

Uh, like I bought the, um, the Eugene Thacker book, An Ideal for Living, because I was like, "What do you mean it's a pur- it's a novel where you get the concept but you can't really read it because it's not written in sentences? What do you mean?" Yeah, I picked it up and it was around the same time by pure happenstance that I had just gotten and read Piranesi.

Uh-huh.

Like total, total fluke.

That is the title track on Paul's August 6th release, also in the set.

Bremnar, Aki Yuli Salamaki, and Krita Julia Heikila, Siavash Amini with Eugene Thacker, Asuka Kaketani, and up top, Kyle Grimm.

a track called Serendipitous II.

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