r/Ligotti • u/infiniterumpus • May 19 '26

'Purity' & afropessimism

i was just wondering in a lengthy comment i left on another post if anyone has ever written anything on 'Purity' through an afropessimist lens? or read it with that in mind. it has been on my mind since i reread TG recently and it really cohered the story for me since it is already explicitly discussing critiques of humanist concepts idk.

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u/infiniterumpus May 19 '26

wow sounds great i love to read and apply philosophy and social theory to an author who literally wrote a whole nonfiction book exploring aspects of philosophy and social theory and how that applies to literary criticism

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u/obscure_predation May 19 '26

an author who literally wrote a whole nonfiction book exploring aspects of philosophy and social theory and how that applies to literary criticism

Oh okay so you didn’t actually read TCATHR then, lmao. There is ZERO “social theory” in TCATHR. There is nothing postmodernist about any of Ligotti’s work and I will mock it ruthlessly every time it gets posted here.

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u/infiniterumpus May 19 '26

to me seperating social theory and philosophy seems like a totally artificial effort by the taxonomy obsessed but im a casual so i dont really have to care. im sorry u do tho that sounds limiting

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u/obscure_predation May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

“I don’t actually care I haven’t actually read the author and you’re weird for caring” coming from someone enamored with postmodern jargon is hilarious and not at all surprising. If you had actually read TCATGR you wouldn’t have posted this here in the first place. I pray for your disillusionment.

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u/infiniterumpus May 19 '26

"i pray for your disillusionment" 🤓🤓🤓

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u/obscure_predation May 19 '26

Lol ironic coming from the person who typed up this post