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Hideous Gnosis
Black Metal Theory Symposium I
by Nicola Masciandaro, Steven Shakespeare, Erik Butler, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Joseph Russo, Benjamin Noys, Evan Calder Williams, Niall Scott, Brandon Stosuy, Aspasia Stephanou, Scott Wilson, Eugene Thacker, Anthony Sciscione, Reza Negarestani, Contributor-Lionel Maunz, Karlynn Holland, Oyku Tekten, Contributor-Andrew White
Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 2010 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-13: 978-1-4505-7216-3, ISBN: 1-4505-7216-2

"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 ..."

Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media(1st Edition)
(Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
by Aspasia Stephanou
Hardcover, 186 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-22743-9, ISBN: 1-138-22743-9

"This book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and the nonorganic. The author explores how materiality lends itself ideally to discussions of gothic and horror and acts as a threat to attempts to control meaning which falls outside the re ..."

Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media
by Aspasia Stephanou
178 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-315-39572-2, ISBN: 1-315-39572-X

"Kittler, “Dracula's Legacy,” 63, 64. Kittler, “Dracula's Legacy,” 71. Kittler, “ Dracula's Legacy,” 66. Kittler, “Dracula's Legacy,” 71. Kittler, “Dracula's Legacy,” 71–2. Kittler, “Dracula's Legacy,” 73. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “The Character in the Veil: ..."

Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood(1st Edition)
Bloodlines (Palgrave Gothic)
by Aspasia Stephanou
Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-46784-6, ISBN: 1-349-46784-7

"Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture."

Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood
Bloodlines (Palgrave Gothic)
by Aspasia Stephanou
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-34922-4, ISBN: 1-137-34922-0

"Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the promiscuous circulations of blood in science and philosophy, vampire novels, films and vampire communities to draw a vascular map of the symbolic meanings of blood and its association with questions of identity and the body. Stephanou seeks to explain present-day biotechnologies, global neoliberal biopolitics and capitalism, feminine disease and monstrosity, race, and vampirism by lookin ..."

Palgrave Gothic
Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood : Bloodlines
by Aspasia Stephanou
226 Pages, Published 2014 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-34923-1, ISBN: 1-137-34923-9

"I am eternally grateful to my parents for their support, sacrifices and their unwavering love. Their generosity is poorly reciprocated with this gift. My heartfelt thanks go to my partner, Dr Andrew J. Sneddon, whose devotion, patience and constant encouragement have made possible the completionof this work. Hehas always been my firstand most demandingreader. In many waysthis bookis also dedicatedtohim. I would liketo thank Profess ..."

Helvete
A Journal of Black Metal Theory: Issue 1
by Helvete Journal, Zareen Price, Aspasia Stephanou, Ben Woodard, Andrew Doty, Amelia Ishmael
Paperback, 134 Pages, Published 2013 by Punctum Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-75828-2, ISBN: 0-615-75828-2

"Issue 1 ("Incipit") of Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory. Not to be confused with metal studies, music criticism, ethnography, or sociology, Black Metal Theory is a speculative and creative endeavor, one which seeks ways of thinking that count as Black Metal events — and indeed, to see how Black Metal might count as thinking. Theory of Black Metal, and Black Metal of theory. Mutual blackening. Therefore, we eschew any approach th ..."

Transgression and Its Limits(1st Edition)
by Matt Foley, Neil Mcrobert, Aspasia Stephanou, Monica Foley
Hardcover, 220 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-3729-3, ISBN: 1-4438-3729-6

"Transgression and Its Limits is a long overdue collection that reads the complex relationship between artistic transgressions and the limits of law and the subject. In mid-twentieth century theoretical understandings of transgressive culture, it is the existence of the limit that guarantees the possibility and success of the transgression. While the limit calls for obedience, it also tempts with the possibility of violation. To breach t ..."

Glossator
Practice and Theory of the Commentary: Black Metal
by Steven Shakespeare, Eugene Thacker, Aspasia Stephanou, Ben Woodard, Reza Negarestani, Nicola Masciandaro
Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2012 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-13: 978-1-4776-6746-0, ISBN: 1-4776-6746-6

"Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary Volume 6 (2012) -Black Metal Editors: Nicola Masciandaro & Reza Negarestani Of Plications: A Short Summa on the Nature of Cascadian Black Metal - Steven Shakespeare Black Metal and the Mouth: Always Serving You as a Meal, or, Infected Orality, Pestilential Wounds and Scars - Aspasia Stephanou The Blackish Green of the Greenish Black, or, The Earth's Coruscating Darkness - Ben Woodard ..."