Beyond the eternity entwined, I hear life.

Nakijin [今帰仁村] Okinawa [沖縄], Japan

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For Harman, there are two philosophical approaches to reality. One is to see a certain harmony and unity in all things. The pre-Socratic Greek philosophers are a good example of this tendency (Anaximenes, one of the well-known Milesian philosophers, believed everything was essentially reducible to the element water). The other direction is to see division, or as Harman puts it, “gaps” in the nature of reality. In contrast to a kind of reductionism witnessed in the monism of Anaximenes, he calls this productionism, and this is how he understands Lovecraft: “No other writer,” he says “is so perplexed by the gap between objects and the qualities they possess.” (3) [...]

If there is an essential element that captures the term “Lovecraftian” it is this: the idea that reality is a whole lot weirder and more terrifying than it is possible to understand and, even more so, than it is possible to describe. It is what Harman calls the “notion of a purely oblique access to genuine reality.” (262) [...]

Lovecraft is a writer who challenges our basic rational categories and the ability to apprehend the world in a knowable way. Even geometry, the basic shape of space, is subject to uncertainty: “Nothing is more Lovecraftian than his repeated vague assaults on the assumptions of normal three-dimensional space and its interrelations […] could [anything] be more threatening than the notion that something is ‘all wrong’ in the presumed spatial contours on which all human thought and action is based.” (71) [...]

Lovecraft, Harman argues, is a writer whose style and content form a particular unity that speaks (almost wordlessly) to the inherently unknowable weirdness of reality. Harman suggests this has larger philosophical consequences: “Through his [Lovecraft’s] assistance we may be able to learn about how to say something without saying it – or, in philosophical terms, how to love wisdom without having it. When it comes to grasping reality, illusion and innuendo are the best we can do.” (51)

Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy. Review by Sebastian Normandin

Ranchers as Grant Wood’s American Gothic was supposed to be sillay and goofy but then I set the ranch on fire and one thing led to another and now it’s. sad DFBJDFGB I’m really happy with how this came out though, so!! Here’s my week 3 piece for the Hermitcraft Design Challenge thingie :]

jason doesn’t feel guilty for the murders he committed!!! he can’t feel catholic guilt or want repentance or atonement for something he doesn’t feel guilt about! and there are dozens of religions we could explore jason in that would be so much more fun than catholicism or any type of christianity

what the actual fuck? all of the comments were supporting this dude even after this disgustingly misogynistic comment. I feel so bad for the women at that event.

"I don't even act like a man" yes you do. you're just completely delusional. @redditreceipts

im trying SO hard to be normal about this clip ?????????

this is my roman empire.

hi! I Love your work so much! The style, the emotion in your work—AGH! A request if you don’t mind—Steve, Eddie, and Robin drunk puppy dog pile in the bathtub? Thank you so much, you’re awesome ❤️

You’re too sweet!! 💕 This request was cute af 🤩 hope I did it justice!

Tobias Rademacher, Moody Path

— in cammino verso il linguaggio, m. heidegger

the war arc was truly THEIR arc

Lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship

Can we all stop being so observing so much? It’s barely 6am and my heart just shattered again 😭

I really like these hyperspecific polls, so here's one about me!