No one came from Outside: A critique of the abject-Lovecraftian foundations of dark ecology

• León Casero, Jorge ^[1] ; Urabayen, Julia ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad de Zaragoza

     Universidad de Zaragoza

     Zaragoza, España

     
  2. [2] University of Navarra
• Localización: Ilha do desterro: a journal of language and literature = revista de língua e literatura, ISSN 0101-4846, ISSN-e 2175-8026, Vol. 76, Nº. 2, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: (Re)creating possible futures or alternative presents through the arts)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.