{"id":58947,"date":"2023-03-15T03:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T03:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=58947"},"modified":"2023-03-14T07:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:36:39","slug":"lovecraft-and-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/lovecraft-and-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft and photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual academic essay, <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/867522\/pdf\">&#8220;H.P. Lovecraft, Photography, and the Transhumanist Imagination&#8221;<\/a> (Fall 2022). Sadly behind a paywall at Project Muse. But it&#8217;s the lead article in the issue and, since informed essays on Lovecraft&#8217;s understanding of photography are so rare, I&#8217;m mentioning it here.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lovecraft\u2019s seemingly naive conception of photography as unerringly \u201cobjective\u201d actually reflects his understanding of photography as a transhuman technology that can transform human consciousness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual academic essay, &#8220;H.P. Lovecraft, Photography, and the Transhumanist Imagination&#8221; (Fall 2022). Sadly behind a paywall at Project Muse. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/lovecraft-and-photography\/\">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-58947","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\/58947","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=58947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58949,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58947\/revisions\/58949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}