Cosmic horror offers no relief between determinism and chaos

Evidence

With Ligotti, it is not clear which is the more terrifying prospect — an ultimate puppet master pulling the strings or the strings fraying off into blind senseless chaos. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 290

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Puppet horror stems from consciousness revealing cosmic uselessness, not malice — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 282; A paradigm too close to raw reality yields no ordering or predictive power — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 70; Non-linear time and philosophies of the All do not generate mythic filiation — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 280 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• A paradigm too close to raw reality yields no ordering or predictive power #corroborates (0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 70
• A philosophy matching the horror of barbarism must abandon explanatory causal detail #corroborates (0.80)
• Non-linear time and philosophies of the All do not generate mythic filiation #corroborates (0.72) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 280