Nihilism Now!

KEITH ANSELL PEARSON teaches philosophy at the University of Warwick. His most recent book is Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze. - DIANE MORGAN is a lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at University College Northampton. She is the author of Kant/Trouble: The Obscurities of the Enlightened.

• 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

'Nihilism Now! Monsters of Energy provides the perfect opportunity for us to reflect on, to refresh and dynamize the forces of nihilism that Nietzsche both admonished and admired, those nihilistic forces that mark modernity and its postmodern consequences. This book addresses the question of how to live productively, and without disavowal, in the face of a cultural and epistemic nihilism that both threatens all joy in and of the future and yet acts as a counterforce to the self-satisfactions of the past and present. It asks us to revel in an active nihilism that overcomes the passivity of social, political and moral nihilism that pervades much of contemporary culture.' - Professor Elizabeth Grosz, SUNY at Albany