Cosmic Pessimism by Eugene Thacker

“Human beings deep in thought look like corpses.”

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”Schopenhauer, using the metaphors of astronomy, once noted that there were three types of writers: meteors (the flare of fads and trends), planets (the faithful rotation of tradition), and the fixed stars (impervious and unwavering). But in Schopenhauer’s own writing—aphorisms, fragments, stray thoughts—one is acutely aware of the way that all writing ultimately negates itself, either to be forgotten or to have been so precise that it results in silence.
”Was Schopenhauer aware that he himself was a fourth type of writer—the black hole?”

-Eugene Thacker, 2015