True Detection

A collection of philosophical and critical essays on the television series True Detective."Traditionally, the detective genre deals with the problem of epistemology – how to know something that one doesn't know. There are some things we cannot know, and some things we should not know. Sometimes clues just give way to more clues, and epistemic tedium rules the day. These essays reveal knowledge becoming an enigma to itself, revealing the brilliant futility of the epistemological project." – Eugene Thacker, author of In The Dust of This Planet"The television event of the year - I would say many years - is without doubt True Detective. One deserving of forensic, unflinching, and unrelenting philosophical treatment." – Simon Critchley"The most intelligent series in TV history has opened strange crypts for explorers. This excellent essay collection reveals just how far the dark tunnels lead. Let it coax you from the comforts of death and fear, into detection of the guttering nightmare that is life, coldly seen." – Nick LandCONTENTSI. Black StarsGary J. Shipley – Monster at the End: Pessimism’s Locked Rooms and Impossible CrimesEdia Connole – Contemplating the Crucifixion: Cohle and Divine GloomNicola Masciandaro – I Am Not Supposed To Be Here: Birth and Mystical DetectionII. Separate From ItselfFintan Neylan – The Labour of the Pessimist: Detecting Expiration’s Artifice Paul J. Ennis – The Atmospherics of ConsciousnessBen Woodard – Nothing Grows in the Right Direction: Scaling the Life of the NegativeIII. There Was A Videotape Niall McCann – True Detective, Jean-Luc Godard and Our Image Culture: ‘This May Well be Heaven, this Hell Smells the Same’Daniel Fitzpatrick – ‘True Dick’ . . . The Accelerated Acceptance and Premature Canonisation of True DetectiveIV. It’s Just One StoryScott Wilson – The Nonsense of Detection: Truth Between Science and the RealErin K. Stapleton – The Corpse is the Territory: The Body of Dora Kelly Lange in True Detective Caoimhe Doyle & Katherine Foyle – The Flat Devil Net: Mapping Quantum Narratives in True DetectiveDaniel Colucciello Barber – Affect Has No StoryV. And Closure–No, No, NoDominic Fox – koyntly bigyledCharlie Blake, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Edia Connole, Paul J. Ennis, Gary J. Shipley – Bird TrapEdge to EdgeCaoimhe Doyle & Katherine Foyle – The Chole Story