Serial Killing: A Philosophical Anthology

428 Pages·2015·51.955 MB·English

by  Edia Connole (Editor), Gary J. Shipley (Editor)

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A Philosophical Anthology
edited by Edia Connole & Gary J. Shipley
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SERIAL KILLING:
A PHILOSOPHICAL
ANTHOLOGY
Edited by
Edia Connole and Gary J. Shipley
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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?