Weird Mysticism: Bataille, Cioran, Ligotti with Brad Baumgartner

Brad Baumgartner is a theorist and writer. He is the author of several works, including Dead Man s Switch: Glissades (Orbis Tertius Press, 2022), The Tempered Midriff: A Play in Four Acts (SchismNeuronics, 2020), Celeste: Our Lady of Flowering Marvel (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), which was a semifinalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award, and Quantum Mechantics: Memoirs of a Quark (The Operating System, 2019). Additionally, Stylinaut (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021), a hybrid work of experimental fiction, aphorism, fragment, and poetry, was a finalist for the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. Other recent work can be found in the edited collections Acéphale and Autobiographical Philosophy in the 21st Century (Schism Press, 2021) and Art Disarming Philosophy: Nonphilosophy and Aesthetics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021). He is on the Editorial Board of Cyclops Journal: Contemporary Theory, Theory of Religion, and Experimental Theory and is Fiction Editor of Coffin Bell: A Journal of Dark Literature. In