Weekly Wikipedia Find: Cosmicism

Having just finished a collection of some of H.P. Lovecraft's works, this post is less a post on Cosmicism, than a tribute to the mini-cottage industry of Lovecraft wikis that are contained within all that is Wikipedia.

But more particular the cosmicism of the Cosmicism Wikipedia entry refers to Lovecraft's penchant for horror that was not based in the supernatural, but rather a universal, one of un-understandable scientific capabilities and biologies, and the earthbound cults built around this mighty astral beings.

But what Wikipedia doesn't mention, (and I did ctrl+f on the main Lovecraft page, so I'm taking full credit for this) is that Lovecraft's horror is an epistolary horror. All of his stories, or at least the better ones, seemed to be based around academics and scholars researching, delving, stumbling upon seem mysterious thing, place, history and getting involved, often perilously too close, as there story is recounted in letters and diaries.

I will give one brief shout-out to cosmicism though, and that is: cosmic indifference. The idea that God exists, gods in fact, and they don't care. They of course are only gods in that sense of supreme beings who obey a set of natural laws that are beyond all human understanding.

Wikipedia by Week

Week Forty: Prisoner's dilemma
Week Thirty-Nine: Demimonde
Week Thirty-Eight: Haemophilia in European royalty
Week Thirty-Seven: Library of America
Week Thirty-Six: Honeypot
Week Thirty-Five: Glasgow smile
Week Thirty-Four: Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
Week Thirty-Three: Mono no aware
Week Thirty-Two: Royal intermarriage
Week Thirty-One: Amputee fetishism
Week Thirty: Turtles all the way down
Week Twenty-Nine: The Diogenes Club
Week Twenty-Eight: E pur si muove!
Week Twenty-Seven: Unico
Week Twenty-Six: Panopticon
Week Twenty-Five: Legendary
Week Twenty-Four: Ostern
Week Twenty-Three: Kilroy was here
Week Twenty-Two: Jack Parsons
Week Twenty-One: The Wold Newton Universe
Week Twenty: Anonymous
Week Nineteen: Monty Hall problem
Week Eighteen: Brown Booby
Week Seventeen: Dieter Dengler
Week Sixteen: New Jerusalem
Week Fifteen: Technological Singularity
Week Fourteen: Numbers Station
Week Thirteen: Culper Ring
Week Twelve: Mary Sue
Week Eleven: Byford dolphin diving bell accident
Week Ten: Deep-sea gigantism
Week Nine: Bloop
Week Eight: Rat king
Week Seven: Gustave Doré
Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One: Lolita fashion