POST-LOVECRAFTIAN PHILOSOPHY

Yes, and that's in some ways the point. Land and Negarestani in particular are both enthralled by the power of Lovecraftian myth, especially since what Lovecraft himself was afraid of was radical alterity-- a topic both writers find themselves wrestling with often. Placing the reader and writer in the position of the mad outsider, the detective on the verge of a horrifying breakthrough, makes a self-fulfilling story, a hyperstitional sort of ARG where we're all digging through the scraps of teleoplex self-flaggelation that the mad authors are leaving for us.
The descent into madness is thematically couped into one aspect of the temporal DMZ standoff between neuroticism and schizophrenia that forms the main cable from Deleuze to Land. By considering any of this as representative of truth, you have already surrendered to insanity, no matter how many layers of metaphor or symbolism you consider it to be nested within. And in this horrid interzone, that insanity is a badge of allegiance, the same way Moldbug ironically muses that irrationality is a badge of allegiance in contemporary politics. warosu.org.