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Numa plácida ilha de ignorância: O inarticulável e a recepção de H. P. Lovecraft no início do século XXI
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As primeiras décadas do século XXI caracterizam-se por tendências de aceleração das
alterações no background não-humano da experiência. Pensamos, entre outros fenómenos, na
rápida proliferação da ubiquidade computacional e das suas redes, assim como nas questões
provenientes da consciencialização das aporias inerentes à época do antropoceno. É por entre
estas rápidas alterações que Eugene Thacker descreve o problema da impensabilidade do
mundo. Podemos formular o mesmo problema através da metáfora cartográfica: a cultura
contemporânea revela tendências fortes de consciencialização da dissonância entre os
processos de mapeamento e o respectivo território. Os mapas cognitivos - como os designou
Frederic Jameson - revelam-se insuficientes para dar conta dos acelerados processos do Real.
Independentemente da metáfora utilizada, estamos perante um problema de (in)articulação
de horizontes estáveis para o pensamento.
Em paralelo a este diagnóstico, encontramos um renovado interesse na obra de H. P.
Lovecraft, que se materializa em diferentes pontos da cultura contemporânea - desde a
literatura e a cultura popular, até à crítica e ao pensamento académico. Um dos elementos da
obra de Lovecraft que tem recebido mais atenção são as suas imagens de exterioridade
cósmica. Estas imagens aludem a dimensões inarticuláveis da experiência, provenientes de
um cosmos não-humano muito mais vasto do que as limitadas capacidades instintivas,
perceptivas e cognitivas do humano. Este elemento da obra lovecraftiana ressoa em correntes
do pensamento que procuram repensar as relações entre o humano e o não-humano, como os
novos materialismos, o realismo especulativo ou o pessimismo filosófico.
Na presente investigação, centramos estas imagens de exterioridade inarticulável com vista a
mapear algumas das preocupações teóricas que circundam a recepção de H. P. Lovecraft nas
primeiras décadas do século XXI. Para o efeito, analisamos as leituras de três autores que
centram esta componente da sua obra: 1 - Thomas Ligotti, que lê a exterioridade
lovecraftiana no prisma do pessimismo filosófico. 2 - Graham Harman, que encontra na obra
do escritor americano indicações para a fuga ao correlacionismo antropocêntrico. 3 - Mark
Fisher, que associa a obra de Lovecraft à produção de experiências estético-afetivas de
fixação em exterioridades inassimiláveis, para além dos mapeamentos estabelecidos.
The initial decades of the 21st century are characterised by accelerating changes in the non-human background of experience, like the swift proliferation of computational ubiquity and its networks, or the issues arising from the awareness of the contradictions inherent to the anthropocene era. Within this landscape, Eugene Thacker describes the problem of the unthinkable world. This challenge can be metaphorically framed using cartography: contemporary culture reveals a strong awareness of the dissonance between the mapping process and the respective territory. Our cognitive maps - as Frederic Jameson called them - prove to be insufficient to account for the accelerated processes of the Real. Regardless of the metaphor used, the core problem lies the (in)articulation of stable horizons for thought. Concurrently, there is a renewed interest in the work of H. P. Lovecraft, evident across different facets of contemporary culture - from literature and popular culture, to criticism and academic thought. The literary images of cosmic outsideness are one of the elements of his work that have received the most attention and analysis. These images point to inarticulable dimensions of experience, originating from a non-human cosmos much vaster than the limited instinctive, perceptual and cognitive capacities of humans. Such literary images resonate within intellectual currents that seek to rethink the relationship between the human and the non-human, such as speculative realism, philosophical pessimism or the new materialisms. In this investigation, we focus on these images of inarticulable exteriority, aiming to map some of the theoretical concerns that surround the reception of H. P. Lovecraft in the first decades of the 21st century. To this end, we analyse the readings of three authors who delve into this aspect of Lovecraft’s work: 1 - Thomas Ligotti, who reads the lovecraftian outsideness through the prism of philosophical pessimism. 2 - Graham Harman, who finds in Lovecraft an ally to escape anthropocentric correlationism. 3 - Mark Fisher, who relates Lovecraft's work with the production of aesthetic-affective experiences of fixation on unassimilable outsides beyond established cognitive mappings.
The initial decades of the 21st century are characterised by accelerating changes in the non-human background of experience, like the swift proliferation of computational ubiquity and its networks, or the issues arising from the awareness of the contradictions inherent to the anthropocene era. Within this landscape, Eugene Thacker describes the problem of the unthinkable world. This challenge can be metaphorically framed using cartography: contemporary culture reveals a strong awareness of the dissonance between the mapping process and the respective territory. Our cognitive maps - as Frederic Jameson called them - prove to be insufficient to account for the accelerated processes of the Real. Regardless of the metaphor used, the core problem lies the (in)articulation of stable horizons for thought. Concurrently, there is a renewed interest in the work of H. P. Lovecraft, evident across different facets of contemporary culture - from literature and popular culture, to criticism and academic thought. The literary images of cosmic outsideness are one of the elements of his work that have received the most attention and analysis. These images point to inarticulable dimensions of experience, originating from a non-human cosmos much vaster than the limited instinctive, perceptual and cognitive capacities of humans. Such literary images resonate within intellectual currents that seek to rethink the relationship between the human and the non-human, such as speculative realism, philosophical pessimism or the new materialisms. In this investigation, we focus on these images of inarticulable exteriority, aiming to map some of the theoretical concerns that surround the reception of H. P. Lovecraft in the first decades of the 21st century. To this end, we analyse the readings of three authors who delve into this aspect of Lovecraft’s work: 1 - Thomas Ligotti, who reads the lovecraftian outsideness through the prism of philosophical pessimism. 2 - Graham Harman, who finds in Lovecraft an ally to escape anthropocentric correlationism. 3 - Mark Fisher, who relates Lovecraft's work with the production of aesthetic-affective experiences of fixation on unassimilable outsides beyond established cognitive mappings.
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Lovecraft Recepção Interpretação Inarticulável Exterior Ecologia Reception Interpretation Inarticulable Outside Ecology