Abstract
In constructing cosmological models, the human creature assembles a sense of significance that is bound by morals and ethics, and produces an image of the universe as a stable and cohesive creation. This sense of universal order is fortified by the endeavour to isolate the body as an object separate from the landscape in which it moves. But this is an illusion; this is a belief in a foundation of order that simply does not exist.] For the early twentieth century philosopher and writer, H.P. Lovecraft, the universe is an indifferent mechanism without purpose or direction, and the human creature within this mechanism is rendered insignificant. There is neither emotion nor ethic of any human parameter to be found beyond that creature’s own minuscule sphere, and the universe manifests as a hostile adversary of polarized oppositions. According to Lovecraft, the ordered body on which the human creature has thought it can rely, is perpetually subject to the threat of engulfment in the universe and to plunging irretrievably into madness or death. What hope for significance can the human creature hold in such a universe as this? For Lovecraft’s cosmicism, the human response to the universe of chaos is to inscribe that universe as an adversary to be feared; but for neocosmicism, the universe is an entity of chaos and life is the mask that the universe symbiotically wears. It is a moving, breathing chaos and the human creature is breathing with it.