On the Verge of Nothing [Gary J. Shipley]

[Nihilism] [Pessimism] [Beyond]

On the Verge of Nothing

Gary J. Shipley

Nine Banded Books, WV. 2021. Paperback. In excellent condition with a tad bit of rubbing to the white cover, would likely clean up to perfect with some elbow grease.

Per Eugene Thacker:

"Gary Shipley’s On the Verge of Nothing moves according to a patient logic, asking us to consider what follows when we begin from pessimism, rather than arriving at it. Through Shipley’s ciphers – Nietzsche, Pessoa, Lispector, contemporary performance art – pessimism is illuminated as at once unliveable and unconsolable, and yet unavoidable. Reading On the Verge of Nothing, the primordial philosophical question of “how to live” now takes on contours that are colder, more detached, and yet, somehow, deeply engaged."

This would pair swimmingly with the Cioran and Pessoa. We all need to reckon with our pending, imminent nonexistence, lest we find ourselves utterly shredded by Chrononzic forces at the moment of our dissolution. Shipley provides a framework.