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- Title
NO ONE CAME FROM OUTSIDE: A CRITIQUE OF THE ABJECT-LOVECRAFTIAN FOUNDATIONS OF DARK ECOLOGY.
- Authors
León Casero, Jorge; Urabayen, Julia
- Abstract
In recent decades, philosophical reflection on the utopian has focused on the analysis of the way in which the future-possible and the radically unknown or "other" influence our present. Specifically, accelerationism and Object-oriented Ontology have identified horror and weird fiction in general, and H. P. Lovecraft in particular, as the privileged field from which to access a radically anti-humanist absolute exteriority (Outside) with the aim of developing a new anti-species worldview, one which Timothy Morton calls "Dark Ecology." This article analyzes the philosophical foundations of this worldview, showing the exclusive and proto-fascist character it harbors, which is why it should be clearly separated from other post-humanisms and/or new materialisms based on the hybridization and interconnection characteristic of relational ontologies.
- Subjects
LOVECRAFT, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937; POSTHUMANISM; REFLECTION (Philosophy); HORROR tales; MATERIALISM; ONTOLOGY; WORLDVIEW
- Publication
Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English & Cultural Studies, 2023, Vol 76, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
0101-4846
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92273