This is also a space for me to discuss fear and confront it. This is space for me to record my experiences while literally covered in the dust of this planet. And after months, maybe years of worrying about it, I am, in this very moment, on my way to Thailand. I have a tendency to worry an hour and act for a minute. I write about coal, climate change, insects–but I don’t write about me. He was so committed he wrote a book about it for no one to read.īut here is where Eugene, Jay Z, and I really come together. Eugene Thacker thinks this is an intriguing, and a contradictorily inspiring thought. There isn’t really a purpose to us, or life, or the cosmos. This all begins with Nietzsche’s “the most difficult thought,” which goes like this: Nothing we do matters. All while wearing “The Dust of this Planet.” * Cops chase, hookers run, Jay Z rides his motorcycle and looks to shoot the sun. In the pages of Lucky Magazine, Lily Collins, fashionista, wore a dust jacket sweater–”In the Dust of This Planet.” Then Jay Z and Beyonce “RUИ” to promote their tour. Rust Cohle from True Detective had the same conversation with his partner that Eugene Thacker had with his wife. “In the Dust of This Planet.” He wrote it for no one. He is admittedly a pessimist on his good days. Here’s a story for you: Eugene Thacker is a professor.
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