Horror monsters’ readiness to discard body parts exemplifies Spinozist reason

Evidence

One of the sublimely ruthless (=machinically efficient) aspects of the behaviour of Aliens, predators and shoggoths from which the organism recoils in horror is their readiness to ditch body parts when they are damaged or redundant. The BwO quickly dispenses with any features that either inhibit its flatlining slide towards the zero intensity of pure potentiality or which draw it back towards the closed-down depotentiation of the organism. (I have sometimes wondered about the k-punk potential of “If thine own eye offend thee, pluck it out.”) This, astonishingly perhaps, is Spinozist reason. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2331

Categorization

• XREF: Connects the BwO lineage (Deleuze/Guattari/Aliens/shoggoths, here tied to Spinoza) to Fisher’s ongoing k-punk and horror commentary across other entries. — connects to: Seeing a body part detached from its whole produces an uncanny horror response
• SEED: The gosper ‘pluck out thine eye’ as k-punk potential suggests an angle on scripture as a proto-BwO manual of ruthless disassembly rather than moral exhortation.

Broader Connections

• Seeing a body part detached from its whole produces an uncanny horror response #complicates (0.74)