Narration And Analysis of The Red Tower by Thomas Ligotti

This video contains a narration of Thomas Ligotti's horror story The Red Tower at the beginning, and then a philosophical analysis afterwards using Zapffe, Ligotti, and, briefly, Metzinger and Brassier. I draw out his pessimistic views through comparison with the story and the philosophical works. Sources: The Conspiracy Against The Human Race - Thomas Ligotti The Red Tower (Teatro Grottesco) - Thomas Ligotti Foreword to The Conspiracy Against The Human Race - Ray Brassier The Last Messiah - Peter Wessel Zapffe The Ego Tunnel - Thomas Metzinger Fair Use Disclaimer: I present this reading and philosophical analysis using the full text of The Red Tower under the allowances of commentary, criticism, transformation, and non-competition under fair use. This video is not a replacement for The Red Tower. Please, consider purchasing from Ligotti’s body of work to support him. Here also, is a statement from Jon Padgett about the allowability of Ligotti youtube narration: "Hey, this may not be the case forever, but for years YouTube has been a place where readers can record Ligotti stories. I’ve talked to Tom in the past about this, and we pretty much agreed that uploaded Ligotti story narrations do more good than harm, spreading his readership. Now this doesn’t apply to the actual text of the stories, which can’t be reproduced and shared or compilations of multiple story recordings. But individual recordings available on YouTube would be fine with Ligotti for now (on youtube specifically). Of course, YouTube could at any time take these recordings down, but for now they haven’t chosen to do so. TLDR: feel free to upload your Ligotti story narration. " - Jon Padgett Music: "Apprehension", "Very Low Note", "Echoes of Time V2", "Night of Chaos", "Symmetry", "SCP-x2x", "Long Note Two", "Long Note One", Tenebrous Brothers Carnival - Prelude", "Vibing Over Venus" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Thumbnail Image Made With AI #horror #cosmichorror #nihilism #pessimism #philosophy 00:00 Introduction 00:55 The Red Tower 26:43 Interlude 29:09 Analysis