Lovecraft and the Horror of the Cosmos

SOURCES/INFORMATION Eugene Thacker, In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy Vol. 1 (Zero Books, 2011) Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (Hippocampus Press, 2010) H.P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927) — his clearest nonfiction statement on cosmicism H.P. Lovecraft, "The Colour Out of Space" (1927) — source material for the Richard Stanley adaptation discussed Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1) (2014) — source novel for the Garland film Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781) — for the world-in-itself / phenomenon-noumenon distinction Thacker builds from Chapters (00:00:00) - Cosmic Horror(00:03:17) - Eugene Thacker: The Horror of Philosophy(00:10:39) - Cosmic Horror: The Difference Between Lovecraft's Cosmicism and L(00:24:36) - World Without Us: The Horror(00:28:42) - Colored Out of Space Review(00:32:59) - The Void: Ambient Cosmic Proposism(00:35:16) - 7 of Melancholia (2013)(00:40:06) - The Best Horror Films of All Time(00:49:56) - Final Girl on 6th Avenue