Hey, everyone, I'm thelitcritguy. I co-host the horror movie podcast Horror Vanguard, have been a regular guest on Revolutionary Left Radio, and make Youtube videos on culture and aesthetics. I write on horror, capitalism, and cultural criticism (you can read my last piece here https://readpassage.com/the-horror-of-capitalism-squid-game-and-the-gothic-trap-of-debt/)
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In many ways, Lovecraft stories are about semantic collapse. Everything slips into being indescribable even as we can't help but try and explain what we are seeing. I guess you need to read Lovecraft against the grain (he's not inherent leftist obviously) but in the age of the internet, when consciousness can become global and language is something that seems exhausted, why wouldn't we all be turning into the protagonists of a Lovecraft story, babbling away to ourselves
This is getting at the root of what I mentioned in my first comment on cosmic horror, the internet has become a Necronomicon of sorts, containing all recorded human knowledge and containing vast and powerful truths, but it's all adrift in an ocean of ramblings of madmen.
Swimming in the postmodern void forever baby!!!!!!!
This sounds like a bit of internal monologue from Disco Elysium (I say sounds because I could hear it as I read it lol).
I need to get on playing that again shit.