The HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast Virtual Roundtable on Lovecraft and the Philosophy of Horror (featuring myself as a participant)

BLOT: (14 Oct 2013 - 03:01:36 PM)

The HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast Virtual Roundtable on Lovecraft and the Philosophy of Horror (featuring myself as a participant)

I was lucky enough to participate in a recent virtual roundtable put out by the guys at the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast as part of a tie-in with a recent kickstarter they posted. There will be four roundtables in all (I think), while the one in which I took part was the guinea pig roundtable and focused on Lovecraft's Philosophy of Horror, as well as the paradoxes and weird outcomes and fictional structures caused by it. Without too much preamble, here you go, HPLLP Round Table #1: Philosophy of Horror:

Some topics include:

• Whether "fear of the unknown" is really the greatest, most primal fear.
• Are phrases like "non-euclidean" only a tool of horror,are they actual world building?
• Are those beings, like Cthulhu and the Yithians, who have demonstrably greater powers than humans any better off in a Lovecraftian universe? Does Lovecraftian transhumanism offer any hope? Or is it a source of horror?
• Are natural disasters better or worse than Lovecraftian entities, or is it the merely an extension of the same uncaring universe?

It's about 50 minutes long, but hopefully a good way to spend the time. Just in case you've never met me in person, I'm the bushy-faced one with glasses and gold leaves on his shirt. Aka, the rambler. Apologies to all for my rambling. I think its genetic.

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