Friday, September 11, 2015

The Philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft

Cosmicism: A vaguely nihilistic view followed by Lovecraft in which the world is unfeeling and vast, minimizing human significance to almost nothing in his fictional universe, that immerses the reader in a common void.

There is an egress upon the view of Lovecraft by considering scale as something meta-human, with some being being far greater, but always greater than oneself, each somehow located in an internal world interlocking with the darker void. And even things which are not human have this scale which is not of themselves which seems vast and is greater than what is near.

There is a sort of high-quality but somewhat off-putting blog on similar topics (dystopianism, technology, etc.) at the following link:

http://darkecologies.com/library-of-impossible-objects/


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