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International Journal of Fear Studies
Nomadic Wandering Through the Desire for Fear: We Know We Must Be Reborn2019 •
In this wandering we (via mother-and-son-dialogue) explore the desire to be frightened. How do the wicked problems of our world lead us into desire for fear? When is the desire free, and when is it fearbased/addictive? Moving from the assumption that the moment of shock associated with fear is a reflection of the same ‘Nothing-Infinite Eternal Form’ that structures the process of death & rebirth, it could be said that we are wandering through the question of why people desire ‘death’ in its many, different and irregular expressions. Are we fated to an unhealthy configuration of co-creating a ‘death culture’ or are there other possibilities? Or is the true danger the ‘life culture’ and associated sun cult—the fear of death and the subsequent quest to find immortality in time? Should we fear death or the Deatheaters? Through dialogue we discuss the various symbolic/mythological (Moore, 1972) roles that monsters and dragons play in our relationships with fear in the neoliberal contexts of the MegaMachine’s (Mumford, 1967, 1970) dominant present incarnation, and ultimately we ask what we can learn from fear and our identity as ‘monsters’ in the eyes of Artificial-Domineering Worldview(s) (Barnesmoore, 2018) as we wander in search of ‘wicked good road(s)’ (Barnesmoore, 2019) that will lead us back to a place where we can enter the natural good road(s).
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International Journal of Fear Studies
Courage/Couraglessness: Rethinking the Fear/Fearlessness Dialectic2019 •