"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 ..."
On Floating Romanticism in the Digital World (Untimely Meditations) by Alexander Pschera, ErikButler Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2018 by Mit Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53581-6, ISBN: 0-262-53581-5
"In the digital realm, we float like fish. We have the sensation of being everywhere and nowhere -- or everything and nothing -- at once. We are between "no longer" and "not yet." Digital floating is addictive because it liberates us from space, time, and responsibility. But floating is at once a liberation and an endangerment: liberation from history, facts, obligations, but endangerment through the loss of identity and through a sense ..."
"In contrast, the terrestrial order rests on firm foundations. Its law is called nomos:
Upon the holy lord Of men and gods I call, Heavenly Nomos, who arranges The
stars and sets a fair limit Between the earth and the waters of the sea; It is his
laws That ever preserve nature's balance, Obedient and steady.2 The digital
order is dispelling the nomos of the earth once and for all. Carl Schmitt praised
the earth for its solidity, abo ..."
The Art of Revolt(1st Edition) Snowden, Assange, Manning (Hardback) by Geoffroy De Lagasnerie, ErikButler Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2017 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-0001-0, ISBN: 1-5036-0001-7
"Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror. When not decried as traitors, they are seen as whistleblowers whose crucial revelations are meant to denounce a problem or correct an injustice. Yet, for Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, they are much more than that. Snowden, Assange, and Manning are exem ..."
"Eric Mosbacher and James Strachey (New York: Basic, 1954), 173. Levinas,
Time and the Other, 90. Ibid., 89. Ibid. ... Sears Reynolds Jane (Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 1944), 223. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid., 224. 5. Eva Illouz,
Consuming the ..."
"The Poetics of National Socialism Albrecht Koschorke, Erik Butler ... The
translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut which is
funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. All rights reserved. No part of
this book ..."
"All and Nothing compares information that spreads without restraint to a hydra—the mythological monster that grew two heads for every one that was cut off."
Felt Time The Psychology of How We Perceive Time by Marc Wittmann, ErikButler 184 Pages, Published 2016 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-33387-0, ISBN: 0-262-33387-2
"... Niko Kohls (University of Applied Sciences, Coburg), Stefan Schmidt (
University of Freiburg), and Anne Giersch of the ... In addition, I received criticism
and encouragement from friends who read the manuscript very attentively:
Katharina ..."
"At the core of the German language are what Schottelius calls Stammwörter, or “
Root Words.” The Seeker was interested above all in the capacity of simple
elements—the seeds and stock of language, as it were—to produce new words
that further ornament and enrich the German literary garden. As Kathrin Gützlaff
has observed, “Schottelius [räumt] der Wortbildung ... einen weitaus gröβeren
Raum ein als die Grammatiker vor ihm” (Schotteli ..."
The Rise of the Vampire(Reprint) by ErikButler Paperback, 178 Pages, Published 2015 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78023-532-5, ISBN: 1-78023-532-1
"Before Bella and Edward; Stefan and Damon Salvatore; and "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter," there was Lestat and Louis, "The Lost Boys," and Buffy Summers. Before "True Blood" and "Let the Right One In," there was "Dark Shadows "and Anne Rice s "Vampire Chronicles." And then there is the most prominent of them all: Dracula, immortalized by Bram Stoker in 1897. Whether they re evil, bloodsucking monsters or sparkling like diamonds in the ..."
"Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessi ..."
"Friedrich Kittler (19432011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native Germany. "Media studies," as Kittler conceived it, meant reflecting on how books operate as films, poetry as computer science, and music as military equipment. This volume collects writings from all stages of the author's prolific career. Exemp ..."
The Rise of the Vampire by ErikButler Hardcover, 175 Pages, Published 2013 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78023-110-5, ISBN: 1-78023-110-5
"Before Bella and Edward; Stefan and Damon Salvatore; and "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter," there was Lestat and Louis, "The Lost Boys," and Buffy Summers. Before "True Blood" and "Let the Right One In," there was "Dark Shadows "and Anne Rice s "Vampire Chronicles." And then there is the most prominent of them all: Dracula, immortalized by Bram Stoker in 1897. Whether they re evil, bloodsucking monsters or sparkling like diamonds in the ..."
"Erik Butler. and exhilarating – a rush that moviegoers desire, even if they might
not be willing to acknowledge its full implications. An Intermediate State Vampyr (
1932), by the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer, also exploits a vague frame of
reference and shadowy modes of charac- terization to plunge viewers into
another world.42 The picture was filmed simultaneously in English, French and
German. Although integral prints of t ..."
Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film(Reprint) Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) by ErikButler Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Boye6 ISBN-13: 978-1-57113-533-9, ISBN: 1-57113-533-2
"For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its representations have multiplied with every political, ..."
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Ser. Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film : Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933 Volume 54 by ErikButler Hardcover, 238 Pages, Published 2010 by Camden House ISBN-13: 978-1-57113-432-5, ISBN: 1-57113-432-8
"hero's sanity: Franzis, it turns out, is an inmate in an asylum run by the man he
alleges is responsible for the killings, Caligari. Critics tend to follow Kracauer's
assessment that the narrative frame disqualifies the criticism implied by Franzis's
story. According to this interpretation, the framing narrative, which puts the young
man in the asylum, transforms the film from a statement of protest into an
affirmation of the statu ..."