In his book Eldritch Mexico, Mexican author A.H. Donbury bravely attempts to place aspects of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu universe into modern-day Mexico. For Lovecraft, setting and place were always crucially important in his telling of weird horror. Intwined with setting and place was the concept of geography, geography being a crucial part of history and bringing…
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This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
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