interesting review, seems pretty impossible tho that reading a book could deprive anyone of hope or meaning, and is there really only One way/attitude by which humans can ethically “confront the enormity of the challenges that face them without being paralyzed by fear or nihilism” or is this yet another case of an author-ity figure confusing their personal psychology/preferences with an Imperative?
https://terenceblake.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/non-theistic-gratitude-on-william-connolly-all-things-shining-and-pulp-fiction/
A (re)view of Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
The opening montage of Lars Von Trier’s film Melancholia ends on an arresting slow-motion image: viewed from outer space, the earth crashes into, and is obliterated by, a larger planet (the eponymous Melancholia). This planet, or so the narrative goes, is on an inevitable collision course with the earth, but has been concealed behind the sun. Although intimately close to the Earth, Melancholia is simply too large in scale for humans to see or fully comprehend until they are about to collide. This collision marks the end not only of the Earth, but of all life in the universe and every trace of its existence.
The fact that the film starts at the end (of the Earth) puts the viewer in an unusual position. It cuts short the sense of anxiety produced by most disaster films – that is, the…
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synthetic zerØ 
http://douglaslain.net/diet-soap-podcast-197-hyperobjects-neurotic-ecology/