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Grounded in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu passage and Graham Harman’s reading, it frames creative description as a purposeful shifting between reality and imagination. 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P. Lovecraft,“The Call of Cthulhu”  \nJULIA SEDLOCK  \nNew Jersey Institute of Technology  \n11  \nIn the preceding quote, H. P. Lovecraft appears to be describing an extraordinary creature, the alien demon Cthulhu. Yet according to Graham Harman’s interpretation, Lovecraft is also describing the difficult task one faces when using language to describe such an extraordinary creature. Harman points out that while Lovecraft’s narrator conjures specific qualities of the monster in the reader’s mind, his evasive description deliberately shifts readers’ attention away from these parts and towards the “the spirit of the thing” and the “general outline of the whole.” For Harman the passage illustrates Lovecraft’s philosophical sensitivity to the gaps and tensions that exist between the world as it is and the world as we experience it, not to mention the language that we use to describe those worlds and the language that we use to create new ones. It is this precise sensitivity that compels Harman to elevate Lovecraft above the classification of pulp-fiction Kitsch and into the realm of literature, worthy of serious cultural consideration. For Harman, products of pop-culture such as tee-shirts and posters that represent a literal depiction of Cthulhu (as octopus-dragon-man) undermine the achievement of Lovecraft’s writing.1 Yet for architecture, this capacity to flicker between its own disciplinary language and the excessively literal visual products of pop-culture is a boon, especially when those products are cartoonlike creatures, and its agenda is the production of new worlds and new audiences.  \nAmong a certain cohort of contemporary architects who have taken up architecture’s task of world making and audience building, the problem of complexity (both visual and functional) has been set aside in favor of a looser, lighter, more playful sensibility. The focus of the work is varied in scope and medium, yet what binds it together is its belief in the speculative potential of architecture to create new ways to live in the world, and its use of low-resolution, figural form and cartoon-like representation to communicate that potential in an optimistic and accessible way. A specific trend or subset among this work is an interest in figure and profile that manifests as explicitly zoomorphic--that is, forms that resemble  \nThe Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center  \ncreatures (or beasts or critters or monsters, depending on your tastes) . Though unabashedly whimsical in appearance, these projects are motivated by a sincere interest in architecture’s capacity to build new audiences, and use the figural forms of creatures in a literal and dead-pan manner to attack that interest head  \non.  \nIn the projects that we will look at below, the geometries of actual animals (real and imaginary) are simplified to low resolution, ambiguous shapes, some through the smooth curvatures generated by digital technology and others through the extrusion and Boolean operations of primitive or simplified geometries. These operations produce objects that possess body parts such as heads, legs, necks, tails and eyes that endow the object with a specific disposition and posture, though never the fully articulated legibility of a known animal. Flickering back and forth between the familiar and the surprising, these abstracted creature shapes send a deliberately mixed message to those encountering them for the first time. Their parts hang together just enough to understand them as “creature” yet loosely enough to prevent the instant recognition of an icon . We understand such creatures as the content of our stories and imaginations, and we are surpri","cbCailKYqXtDI9t0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailKYqXtDI9t0","pdf",1617404,"English","# Creature Comforts: Toward a Duckerated Shed\n## The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center\n## HOW CREATURES GET THEIR SHAPE","[{\"question\":\"How does Lovecraft’s Cthulhu passage relate to the architectural idea discussed?\",\"answer\":\"The text explains that Harman’s interpretation treats Lovecraft’s evasive wording as emphasizing the gaps between the world as it is and the world as it is experienced, and the language used to describe and create worlds. 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