Dark Nights of the Universe (Novo Pan Klub)

Preface to the Four Nights. Last Spring, members of the Cascadian School gathered for a discussion on abattoirs, illumination, and misanthropy. Our findings tended not to reveal anything we didn't already suspect, which is as good an excuse as any for reconvening, one year later. And so Daniel, Nicola, Alex, and myself have gathered here for four nights, to talk about mysticism. Our take-off point is a short text by Fran§ois Laruelle entitled Du Noir univers, published in 1988 in the journal La D©cision philosophique. The text has four parts, and each of us have decided to speak alongside each of those four parts, on four consecutive nights.--Eugene Thacker