Nihilism Now! Monsters of Energy

This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism and to give back to the future its rightful futurity. For too long contemporary thought has been dominated by a depressed 'what is to be done?'. All is regarded to be in vain, nothing is deemed real, there is nothing new seen under the sun. Such a 'postmodern' lament is easily confounded with an apathetic reluctance to think engagedly. Hence our contributors draw on the variety of topical issues: the future of life, the nature of life-forms, the techno-sciences, the body, religion...as a way of tackling the question of nihilism's pertinence to us now.

Editors' Introduction: The Return of Monstrous Nihilism The Shattering of the Crystal Spheres: Rolling from the Centre Towards X: E.Albert Nihilism Tonight...: J.Clemens & C.Feik Nietzsche, Nihilism and Spirit; R.Beardsworth The Monstrous Rebirth of Nihilism; J.Hodge Nihilism and Life: Cosmobiology and Ontopoiesis in Heidegger's Nietzsche: S.Malik Revisiting the Will to Power: Active Nihilism and the Project of Transhuman Philosophy; D.Conway 'Provoked Life': Expressing Nihilism; D.Morgan A Problem of Pure Matter: Fascist Nihilism in A Thousand Plateaus; J.Protevi The Survival of Nihilism; H.Caygill Discomboberate Skinihilation: Flaying the Face; D.Boothroyd Artaud and the Importance of Being Rude; C.Dale 'Epidemics of Enough': Beckettian Sufficiencies; D.Katz Index

ELIOT ALBERT Lecturer, Goldsmith's College, University of London RICHARD BEARDSWORTH Associate Professor of Modern European Philosophy, American University of Paris DAVID BOOTHROYD Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Teeside HOWARD CAYGILL Professor in Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmith's College, University of London JUSTIN CLEMENS Melbourne DANIEL W. CONWAY Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies, Penn State University CATHERINE DALE University of Western Sydney CHRIS FEIK Melbourne JOANNA HODGE Reader in Philosophy and Director of Research, Manchester Metropolitan University DANIEL KATZ English Department, University of Picardie in Amiens, France SUHAIL MALIK Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmith's College, University of London JOHN PROTEVI Lecturer, Department of French and Italian, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge