No one came from OutsideA critique of the abject-Lovecraftian foundations of dark ecology

  1. León Casero, Jorge 1
  2. Urabayen, Julia 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Zaragoza
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    Universidad de Zaragoza

    Zaragoza, España

    ROR https://ror.org/012a91z28

  2. 2 Universidad de Navarra
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    Universidad de Navarra

    Pamplona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02rxc7m23

Revue:
Ilha do desterro: a journal of language and literature = revista de língua e literatura

ISSN: 0101-4846,  2175-8026

Année de publication: 2023

Titre de la publication: (Re)creating possible futures or alternative presents through the arts

Volumen: 76

Número: 2

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5007/2175-8026.2023.E92273 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccès ouvert editor

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Résumé

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.

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