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SeriKaill ling A Philosophical Anthology edited by Edia Connole & Gary J. Shipley Thossec reamyso u'hreea rianrge p hilosobpehiyn agw oken fromi tsd ogmatsilcu mbewrist ha starbkr utalriatrye ly matcheidn t heh istoorfyi nteecltluaanlo malIyf.t he'rse a morei ntensslee e-kpillceorm pilatoiuottn h erseo mewhe,r e itc'osn cealiitnsgew lefl- l.N ick Land ·,/ '*'t �. '• '· \� � --- (1,..) OJ,,Jt First published in 2015 by Schism. prsss .\n imprint of Gobbet press First edition ISBN-13: 978-1515154853 ISBN-10: 1515154858 Copyright © the editors, authors and Schism Press Cover image: Heather Masciandaro Cover design: Caoimhe Doyle Frontispiece: Alina Popa, X, 2015 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written consent of the pub lisher, except where permitted by law. Printed in the CS.\. SERIAL KILLING: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHOLOGY Edited by Edia Connole and Gary J. Shipley • SC}ISM CONTENTS Introduction -Edia Connole & Gary J. Shipley 1 I. 'I don't Im.ow why it started' Qeffrey Dahmer) ALIENS UNDER THE SKIN: SERIAL KILLING AND THE SEDCCTION OF OUR CO:MMON INHUMANI1Y David Roden 9 VISCERAL INCREDULI1Y, OR SERIAL KILLING AS NECESSARY ANATHEMA Gary J. Shipley 21 NONRELATION AND METARELAT ION Daniel Colucciello Barber 39 SO LET IT BE WRITTEN, A CREEPING DEATH: PHAGOCYTOTIC CHRONAPTOPTOSIS, OR THE SELF THAT KILLS THE OTHER Tl-L\ T THE SELF CREATED, SLOWLY Niall W. R. Scott 53 II. 'I picked a juicy flower' (Lucian Sraniak) BATAILLE'S VAMPIRE Fred Botting 61 GULP OF SUN: RETHINKING SACRIFICE THROUGH BATAILLE'S GILLES DE RAIS Brooker Buckingham 79 THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS: SERL4L KITSCH Edia Connole 95 Il\iAGES Jesuve 105 III. 'On living and breathing pages' (Ian Brady) KALIGR:\.PHY Dan Mellamphy 131 EXQCISITE CORPSE: SERIAL KILLING Al."'JD TION OF WRITING THE HORRIPIL\ Aspasia Stephanou 147 W'RITING FROM THE HEART: E�'1ERGING FROM THE REALM OF THE INVISIBLE David Peak 163 WORDS IN BLOOD, LIKE FLOWERS Heather Masciandaro 173 IV. 'I cannot remain in control for much longer' (Zodiac) RELIGION, DOMINATION AND SERIAL KILLING: \VE.STERN CULTURE AND MURDER Paul O'Brien 183 AMOUR FOU AND THE ECSTACY OF DESTRUCTION, OR LOVE IN NEC-LIBERAL TIMES Anthony Faramelli 199 KILLING SPREE! Dominic Fox 215 ON THE ROAD WITH JACK THE RIPPER Paul J. Ennis 221 DOUBLE CLICK SHOT GAZE Teresa Gillespie 237 V. 'I don't belong on earth' (David Berkowitz) DEA TI-I SPRITZ Amy Ireland & Lendl Barcelos 265 LIFE THROUGH DEATH Matt Gaede 281 I AM ODD FOR TODAY Yuu Seki 285 THE MYSTERY OF NIHILL Brad Baumgartner 295 AN EXPI.A TORY PESSIMISM Eugene Thacker 299 THE BERITHIC WANDERER: DAEMONUS MONSMORANCIENSIS Nicola Masciandaro 309 NE RE!\illNISCARIS James Harris 315 OLD BILL Sam Keogh 323 VI. 'I caused dreams which caused death' (Dennis Nilsen) TRANS-SERIAL AND THE DEADLY MEDIUM Irina Gheorghe 331 CUT THE CLOAK ON THE INSIDE TO ALWAYS ENTER FROM THE OUTSIDE Alina Popa 343 DREAMING THE END OF DREAMING Florin Flueras 361 A THOUSAND CHA TEA US: ON TIME, TOPOLOGY AND THE SERIALITY OF SERIA.L MURDER, PART ONE Charlie Blake 369 GENESIS CAL'L AS PRIMORDIAL WOUND Hunter Hunt-Hendrix 391 MURDER BY TELEPHONE NUMBERS: UNREASON AND SERIAL KILLING THROL'GH THE WORK OF DOUGLAS ADAMS Caoimhe Doyle & Katherine Foyle 403 INTRODUCTION Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. -Georges Batailel For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways. -Isaiah 55:8 Betrayal means breaking ranks and going off into the unknown. -Milan Kundera Betrayal as necessity. The betrayer as a father who lets his son fall without catching him, to teach him the cruelties of the world [ . ] akin to [the] description of holy men and gurus, who are . . said to have a coldness that comes from their holiness, 'as imper sonal as nature itself,' echoing the chaos of creation. -Samara Hennen I did not fed bad. I did not feel evil. -Dennis Nilsen James Douglas: Is there evil in the world? Baba: No, there is nothing like evil. Douglas: What do you mean? Baba: There is nothing except bliss everywhere. Douglas: How could that be?
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