{"id":1465,"date":"2010-09-21T09:18:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T06:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2022-04-24T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T17:48:42","slug":"speculative-heresy-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/09\/21\/speculative-heresy-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculative Heresy essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Woodard of <em>Speculative Heresy<\/em> opens a week of essays <a href=\"http:\/\/speculativeheresy.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/20\/lovecraftian-sciencelovecraftian-nature\/\">with a long philosophical article<\/a> on Lovecraft&#8217;s attitude to science, the categorisation of the natural world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That Crawford Tillinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator, for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed.&#8221; &mdash; Lovecraft, in &#8220;From Beyond&#8221; (1920).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I note that the <em>Speculative Heresy<\/em> team link to the Open Humanities Alliance, who have a template up for a new academic ejournal, titled simply <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openhumanitiesalliance.org\/incubator\/index.php\/mon\/issue\/current\">Monster<\/a><\/em>.  No issues or even any blurb yet, but I&#8217;d welcome an open access journal that sees contemporary philosophers tackling monsters and the monstrous in the human imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Woodard of Speculative Heresy opens a week of essays with a long philosophical article on Lovecraft&#8217;s attitude to science, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/09\/21\/speculative-heresy-essay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53720,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/53720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}