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Anonymous asked: What are some good books on Nihilism and Philosophy in general?

On Moral Nihilism (well, specifically expressivism), I’d suggest A.J. Ayers’ Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and I think Simon Blackburn’s Essays in Quasi-Realism (1993). It has been a year or so since I have read on this topic, and my memory isn’t great.

I can’t help you with epistemological nihilism, merelogical nihilism, or metaphysical nihilism.

On Political Nihilism (specifically nihilist anarchism), I’d suggest checking out the tags nihilism and nihilist at the The Anarchist Library. The works by Renzo Novatore and Aragorn! are great.

On Existential Nihilism, I’d suggest the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on existentialism and perhaps Sartre’s Being and Nothingness.

Finally, my philosophy education and reading has been deep rather than broad, so I can’t really think of any general texts. On the other hand, the aforementioned Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy could well be a great help.

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If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.
Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

(Source: autochthones)

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Anonymous asked: Would you consider yourself a nihilist?

I consider myself a moral nihilist, of the Expressivist flavour. I do not know if I consider myself a political nihilist (although I find such a view existentially pleasing), I haven’t read anything around epistemological nihilism, and merelogical and metaphysical nihilism seem irrelevant to me. Finally, I disagree with existential nihilism, because although meaning and value do not exist in an objective sense, I seem to be able to create meaning and value for myself, at least in a subjective, “lived” sense - even if “meaning” and “value” do not exist in any real sense.

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Altars, Filled With Hatred The Conet Project, tcp d3 41 moscow coup attempt irdial Parents, Quiet Earth The Conet Project, tcp d4 37 m3 irdial Bohren & The Club of Gore, Street Tattoo Orchid, Anna Karina The Conet Project, tcp d4 42 m3a irdial AVM, Nightgravesecret SS The Conet Project, tcp d4 16 spanish counting irdial Merzbow, Requiem CELESTE, La gorge ouverte et décharnée The Conet Project, tcp d4 4 preska irdial Dead Raven Choir, Folsom Prison Blues The Conet Project, tcp d4 5 cherta irdial Death in June, But What Ends When The Symbols Shatter? The Conet Project, tcp d4 38 m3 irdial Hatred Surge, Deconstruct Pt.II The Conet Project, tcp d3 21 voice sample irdial Despise You, Cut Your Arms Solves A Lot The Conet Project, tcp d4 41 m3 irdial Full of Hell, Atmosphere (Joy Division Cover) The Conet Project, tcp d3 19 achtung irdial Parents, XXII

  1. Altars, Filled With Hatred
  2. The Conet Project, tcp d3 41 moscow coup attempt irdial
  3. Parents, Quiet Earth
  4. The Conet Project, tcp d4 37 m3 irdial
  5. Bohren & The Club of Gore, Street Tattoo
  6. Orchid, Anna Karina
  7. The Conet Project, tcp d4 42 m3a irdial
  8. AVM, Nightgravesecret SS
  9. The Conet Project, tcp d4 16 spanish counting irdial
  10. Merzbow, Requiem
  11. CELESTE, La gorge ouverte et décharnée
  12. The Conet Project, tcp d4 4 preska irdial
  13. Dead Raven Choir, Folsom Prison Blues
  14. The Conet Project, tcp d4 5 cherta irdial
  15. Death in June, But What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?
  16. The Conet Project, tcp d4 38 m3 irdial
  17. Hatred Surge, Deconstruct Pt.II
  18. The Conet Project, tcp d3 21 voice sample irdial
  19. Despise You, Cut Your Arms Solves A Lot
  20. The Conet Project, tcp d4 41 m3 irdial
  21. Full of Hell, Atmosphere (Joy Division Cover)
  22. The Conet Project, tcp d3 19 achtung irdial
  23. Parents, XXII

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“A Murder Most Foul”/”Animal Liberation, Human Extinction” by Josh Solomon, Two Hands Tattoo.

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The universe is nothing but a furtive arrangement of elementary particles. A figure in transition toward chaos. That is what will finally prevail. The human race will disappear. Other races will in turn appear and disappear. The skies will be glacial and empty, traversed by the feeble light of half-dead stars. These too will disappear. Everything will disappear. And human actions are as free and stripped of meaning as the unfettered movement of the elementary particles.
Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
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I am an individualist because I am an anarchist; and I am an anarchist because I am a nihilist. But I also understand nihilism in my own way…

I don’t care whether it is Nordic or Oriental, nor whether or not is has a historical, political, practical tradition, or a theoretical, philosophical, spiritual, intellectual one. I call myself a nihilist because I know that nihilism means negation.

Negation of every society, of every cult, of every rule and of every religion. But I don’t yearn for Nirvana, any more than I long for Schopenhauer’s desperate and powerless pessimism, which is a worse thing than the violent renunciation of life itself. Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.
Renzo Novatore, ‎ I Am Also a Nihilist

(Source: sites.google.com)

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Anyone who renounces life because he feels that it is nothing but pain and sorrow and doesn’t find in himself the heroic courage to kill himself is — in my opinion — a grotesque poser and a helpless person…
Renzo Novatore, Italian Anarchist

(Source: whyexistence)

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