On Forbidden Knowledge: The Big Other and Social Censorship

This makes cosmic horror an interesting genre – what we are looking for in it is something that we tend not to think of as anywhere near desirable: we are looking for someone to assure us that an individual person’s life doesn’t matter. This is not simply a way of understanding cosmic horror, but a way of using cosmic horror as a lens through which to read other events.

CommentaryCameron SummersOctober 26, 2022Cosmic Horror, Carcosa Shit, A Lush and Seething Hell, The Laundry Files, H.P. Lovecraft, A People's History of the United States, Mutant Epistemologies, The Shape of Water, COINTELPRO, Phillip K. Dick, Thomas Ligotti, China Miéville, Libidinal Economy, John Hornor JacobsComment