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Greetings to all members of and visitors to TLO. I'm pleased to publish here for the first time The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Short Life of Horror. This is a work of nonfiction. All comments of an editorial or critical nature will be most welcome. Brief impressionistic commentary and even remarks of personal abuse will also be received with appreciation.

My grateful thanks to Brian Edward Poe for making this presentation of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race both possible and sightly.

- Thomas Ligotti​
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I had planned to purchase this volume when it was published, despite the likely exorbitant cost. Since then, my life as I had planned it has fallen into pieces and I have absolutely no money. How ironic, I have been thinking, that I should not be able to afford to read TCATHR at the time when it would probably be most relevant to my existence.

Many thanks to Mr. Ligotti for making it free for the time being. I fully intend to purchase a copy when I can again afford to.
 
Thank you so much for this. The book I've been a-waiting for most.

Now I've got to find a printer with enough cartridge to start immediatly.....all those copy shops are closed....this is going to be a long, long night...
 
Wow, this is incredible, having a sneak peek at CATHR. Thanks to Dr. Bantham for making this happen - I'm going to buy the book for sure when it comes out, but being able to get a taste of it in advance is much appreciated!

And to think that other people get excited about crap like the new Harry Potter book - the fools!
 
I just finished the first chapter - certainly fantastic, and literally breathtaking in some moments.

For now just some rather mundane (and maybe meticulous) remarks:

(I) On p. 23 it says, referring to Mainländers Philosophy of Redemption: "see footnote thirteen to this section". The actual footnote that's being referred to seems to be fourteen, though. (Thirteen doesn't deal with Mainländer at all.)

(II) The German book titles in the end of footnote fourteen, p. 42, seem to be rendered wrong. Instead of Die philosophie der Erlosung and Die philosophie der erlosund. Zwolf philosophische Essays, they should be (I didn't check on it, but German hasn't changed that much since the 1880s): Die Philosophie der Erlösung and Die Philosophie der Erlösung. Zwölf philosophische Essays.

(III) This one's really minor, and might be just my misunderstanding: On p. 41, in footnote fourteen, i found the passage confusing which states, "Sayings of this sort are what make Schopenhauer worth the trouble of reading ...". The quote "Life is hell..." seems to have been taken from Mainländer, though...?


Now a few hours of sleep, and then more reading before the distraction of some everyday business arises.......
 
I concur with the rest--this is very exciting indeed! Thanks for so generously sharing it! I hope to get back here with some comments when I've read it. So sometime ultimo June, I guess.

To garner interest from people outside the Ligotti world I posted this comment on my recent HPL blog on my website: http://blog.lovecraft.dk.
 
Hello, I'm new here.

I'm looking forward to the Durtro edition of this very much. It's a much deeper and more compelling read than I had expected - the strength of Ligotti's thesis is that it's very hard to argue with on rational grounds, and arguing on irrational grounds obviously further validates his point of view. One has to admire this, even if one disagrees (which I don't!).

Much recent work in cognitive theory tends to support, in a broad sense, the arguments about consciousness made in Ligotti's text. Interested parties may wish to read Thomas Metzinger's monumental (and very difficult, but don't let that put you off - there are many staggering revelations to be had) book 'Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity', which argues convincingly for the nonexistence of the self, and D.M. Wegner's 'The Illusion of Conscious Will', which attempts same for the notion of 'free will'. (Both of these from MIT Press).

Of course, no one as of yet has really been able to define what 'consciousness' is, either on its own or in relation to such equally vague notions as 'sentience', but Metzinger is one of the very few in academia who faces the question head-on, instead of neatly sidestepping it as usual.
 
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