The Republic of Cthulhu - Paperbackby Eric Wilson (Author) If parapolitics, a branch of radical criminology that studies the interactions between public entities and clandestine agencies, is to develop as an academic discipline, then it must develop a coherent theory of aesthetics in order to successfully perform its primary function: to render perceptible extra judicial phenomena that have hitherto resisted formal classification. Wilson offers the work of H. P. Lovecraft (1890 1937)