AMKent books

When writing the opening character, who is a serial killer walking through essentially world war 3. I took aspects from many philosophers, as I wanted him to be enough of an educated word salad that his evil would become profane.Whilst a core of his character came from my criticisms of postmodernism, I feel I have never discussed his other inspirations. Diogenes the cynic was anti-phillsophy, he believed in harmony without excess. Additionally, Diogenes criticised societal values and engaged in ‘Shamelessness’, or public displays of indecency as a way of making a statement. Virtue was not achieved through materialism, power, or anything like that, it was achieved through the becoming of one’s pure self. The man, as he is known in Void Around Sunlight, operates similarly. However, he is a warped version, Diogenes in the void. His existence as a pure self, unshackled by societal structure remains the same, but his virtues exist in extinguishing the flames of others. To him, as stated in a segment, he only wishes they could understand his ‘Shamelessness’ or ‘anaideia’. it’s a trope to merely say he has no empathy, I wanted him to have a sick empathy. He is empathetic that they do not understand the pleasure in destruction, the self disintegration of nature, autosarchography. Diogenes famously told Alexander the Great to get the fuck out of his sun, the man in Void would instead ask him to burn himself with it.