Old Night: On the Persistence of the Abyss

In Old Night, Nox Vale delivers a brilliant, haunting meditation on the primordial darkness that precedes, surrounds, and ultimately outlasts every form of order—cosmic, theological, political, psychological, and digital. Drawing on Milton's Paradise Lost, Blake's prophetic inversions, Nietzsche's abyss, Lovecraft's cosmicism, Heidegger's concealment, and the strange aesthetics of the contemporary...