"A collection of philosophical and critical essays on the television series True Detective. "Traditionally, the detective genre deals with the problem of epistemology – how to know something that one doesn't know. There are some things we cannot know, and some things we should not know. Sometimes clues just give way to more clues, and epistemic tedium rules the day. These essays reveal knowledge becoming an enigma to itself, revealing th ..."
"Essays and artworks related to Mors Mystica, a black metal theory symposium on the theme of mystical death. "Only that person who says: 'My soul chooses hanging, and my bones death' can truly embrace this fire . . . for it is absolutely true that 'no one can see me and live.'" -- Bonaventure, Itinerarium Mentis in Deum CONTENTS Introduction: On “Heroes/Helden” Edia Connole & Nicola Masciandaro Following the Stench: Watain and Putref ..."
"Eldritch Priest's work does not often figure sounds as waves, but instead favours earworms and egregors ... abstractions that are themselves equally figured through sound. This field is one of phono-fictions, and the contributions to this volume variously figure out (and in) Priest's work by leveraging, interrogating, and promulgating the waves of boredom, bullshit, imagination, and analysis that drive it. These contributions are thus ( ..."
"Featuring Daniele Bellomi, Louise Black, Gabriel Blackwell, James Brubaker, Mauro Javier Cardenas, Ryan Chang, Erin Fleming, Tristan Foster, Michaela Freeman, Róbert Gál, Evelyn Hampton, Anton Ivanov, M Kitchell, Sam Kriss, Emily Laskin, Robert Lunday, Stéphane Mallarmé, Nicola Masciandaro, Elizabeth Mikesch, Rebecca Norton, Yarrow Paisley, Andrei Platonov, Alina Popa, Tom Regel, Forrest Roth, Jacob Siefring, George Szirtes, Colin James ..."
Sufficient Unto the Day Sermones Contra Solicitudinem by NicolaMasciandaro Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2014 by Schism ISBN-13: 978-0-692-22241-6, ISBN: 0-692-22241-3
"The writings in this volume are bound by desire to refuse worry, to reject and throw it away the only way possible, by means that are themselves free from worry. If this is impossible—all the more reason to do so. I. The Sweetness (of the Law) II. Nunc Dimittis: Getting Anagogic III. Half Dead: Parsing Cecilia IV. Wormsign V. Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness VI. Grave Levitation: Being Scholarly VII. Labor, Language, Laughter: ..."
"Preface to the Four Nights. Last Spring, members of the Cascadian School gathered for a discussion on abattoirs, illumination, and misanthropy. Our findings tended not to reveal anything we didn't already suspect, which is as good an excuse as any for reconvening, one year later. And so Daniel, Nicola, Alex, and myself have gathered here for four nights, to talk about mysticism. Our take-off point is a short text by François Laruelle en ..."
"Philosophers, theorists, eco-critics, leading scientific experts in climate change, and artists assess the present state of “planetary thought.”Is there an enduring bond between philosophical thought and the earth, or is philosophy's task to escape the planetary horizon? And what is the connection between the empirical earth, the contingent material support of human thinking, and the abstract “world” that is the condition for a “whole” ..."
"Six essays on Dante and Hafiz. CONTENTS: I. SIGH: Nicola Masciandaro, "Miracle of the Sigh." Franco Masciandaro, "Dante's Sighs/Sigh." Peter Booth, "Sigh." II. GAZE: Nicola Masciandaro, "On the Gaze." Franco Masciandaro, "Dante's Gaze." Peter Booth, "Gaze." III. BEAUTY: Franco Masciandaro, "Beauty in Dante’s Divine Comedy." Peter Booth, "Beauty." Nicola Masciandaro, "Lines on Beauty." Franco Masciandaro (Ph.D., Romance Languages an ..."
The Voice of the Hammer(1st Edition) The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature by NicolaMasciandaro Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Notre Dame Press ISBN-13: 978-0-268-03498-6, ISBN: 0-268-03498-2
"Shaped by the increasing commercialization of economic relations, the social agitation of the agricultural and artisan classes, and the growing formalization of status consciousness, the cultural landscape of late medieval England was fertile territory for the representation of work. In The Voice of the Hammer, Nicola Masciandaro examines the Middle English lexicon, accounts of the history of work, and the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer to ..."
"Glossator 9 (2015): Pearl. Edited by Nicola Masciandaro and Karl Steel. Twenty commentaries on the Middle-English poem Pearl, one for each section of the poem, with a preface by the editors. CONTENTS “Innoghe”: A Preface on Inexhaustibility – Karl Steel The Arbor and the Pearl: Encapsulating Meaning in “Spot” – William M. Storm Pearl, Fitt II – Kevin Marti Pearl, Fitt III (“more and more”) – Piotr Spyra “Py3t”: Ornament, Pla ..."
"Proceedings from two Speculative Medievalisms symposia, held at King’s College London (Jan. 2011) and The Graduate Center, City University of New York (Sep. 2011), and organized by The Petropunk Collective (Eileen Joy, Anna Klosowska, Nicola Masciandaro, and Michael O’Rourke). These interdisciplinary events were dedicated to dialogue and cross-contamination between traditional concepts of speculatio, present-minded premodern studies, an ..."
"Although widely beloved for its playfulness and comic sensibility, Chaucer’s poetry is also subtly shot through with dark moments that open into obscure and irresolvably haunting vistas, passages into which one might fall head-first and never reach the abyssal bottom, scenes and events where everything could possibly go horribly wrong or where everything that matters seems, if even momentarily, altogether and irretrievably lost. And the ..."
"Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place on 11 March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary ..."
"Essays and documents related to Hideous Gnosis, a symposium on black metal theory, which took place on December 12, 2009 in Brooklyn, NY. Expanded and Revised. "Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous." - H.P. Lovecraft "Poison yourself . . . with thought" - Arizmenda CONTENTS: Steven Shakespeare, "The Light that Illumi ..."
"Tracing the the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead.For as long as recording and communications technologies have existed, operators have evoked the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead. In Unsound:Undead, contributors from a variety of discip ..."
fornEVErgreen by NicolaMasciandaro Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 2017 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-977762-01-6, ISBN: 1-977762-01-8
pNEuMenOn by NicolaMasciandaro Paperback, 68 Pages, Published 2016 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-5336-0690-7, ISBN: 1-5336-0690-0
""A spontaneous telegrammatic lyric sequence. Undersea ditties of love and despair. "Split into one like all else | There’s nothing special | About a lost heart that melts | The fires of hell." "The alternate universe | Where this is published | Is probably worse | Than this one—I wish." "I imagine a reading of pNEuMenOn on a rooftop in New York City. Jozef van Wissem playing his lute in the background, seated next to a statue of the ..."
Pulmonessimism by NicolaMasciandaro Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2017 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-5463-8847-0, ISBN: 1-5463-8847-8
"All this while on the sea floor Breathing through two eyes Until my lungs cut a door Opening the skies."
Bewillderelixir by NicolaMasciandaro Paperback, 94 Pages, Published 2017 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-5425-7427-3, ISBN: 1-5425-7427-7
"Absolute bewilderment Anonymous sigh Acosmic imprisonment Abjection of I"
"The Canada into which Contemporary Ghazals No. 1 was published in the summer of 2003 was not exactly a hospitable one. The Canadian literary scene of the day was simply out of sync with editor R. W. Watkins’s higher technical standards and international poetic perspective. Too formal and intellectual for the artsy ‘hipster’ division of Generation X (represented by such publications as Broken Pencil and This Magazine); too exotic and ‘in ..."