Cosmic Pessimism  in Continent.

"And so we have cosmic pessimism, a pessimism that is first and last a pessimism about cosmos, about the necessity and possibility of order.  The contours of cosmic pessimism are a drastic scaling-up or scaling-down of the human point of view, the unhuman orientation of deep space and deep time, and all of this shadowed by an impasse, a primordial insignificance, the impossibility of ever adequately accounting of one's relationship to thought--"

"There's a ghost that grows inside of me, damaged in the making, and there's a hunt sprung from necessity, elliptical and drowned.  Where the moving quiet of our insomnia offers up each thought, there's a luminous field of grey inertia, and obsidian dreams burnt all the way down"

Eugene Thacker