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 reveal that late medieval society understood work as a distinct and problematical field of experience, and that concerns over the relation of work to life were as pressing then as now.   "This book deals with questions that historians of late medieval labour scarcely dare to ask―what is the meaning of the words werk, swink, and craft? How did people in the fourteenth century conceptualize and value work? Much superficial speculation about whether people regarded work as punishing or virtuous can be set aside, as Nicola Masciandaro has applied his formidable learning to supply a nuanced and authoritative analysis of the thinking of such writers as Chaucer and Gower. Anyone enquiring into late medieval attitudes to labour must now take account of this important book."―Christopher Dyer, University of Leicester   "In The Voice of the Hammer, Nicola Masciandaro engagingly presents a large issue with elegance and capaciousness. His subtle and significant readings of all of the works he addresses support the ingenious topics and important ideas he has highlighted in the broad field of late medieval ideas of labor, at once so central to the concerns of later Middle English poetry and so widely disseminated in the culture from which that arose."―Andrew Galloway, Cornell University   "Nicola Masciandaro shows us a contested and complex Middle English set of attitudes towards work, incorporating ideas about nature, humanity's place in the world, and the relation of the present to a simpler past. He gives an intriguing account of the multiple meanings of work in English and shows that texts often regarded as denunciations of workers or of technical progress are more interesting statements about the ambiguity of humanity's control over the world and subjugation to its laws. The result is an important and perceptive contribution to the history of medieval social thought."―Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University

Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature

Literature & Fiction

Masciandaro, Nicola

British & Irish

University of Notre Dame Press

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: Aesop and the Apophatic Human VIII. This is Paradise: The Heresy of the Present IX. Becoming Spice: Commentary as Geophilosophy X. Amor Fati: A Prosthetic Gloss XI. Following the Sigh

Sufficient Unto the Day: Sermones Contra Solicitudinem

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Schism

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 the brilliant futility of the epistemological project." – Eugene Thacker, author of In The Dust of This Planet "The television event of the year - I would say many years - is without doubt True Detective. One deserving of forensic, unflinching, and unrelenting philosophical treatment." – Simon Critchley "The most intelligent series in TV history has opened strange crypts for explorers. This excellent essay collection reveals just how far the dark tunnels lead. Let it coax you from the comforts of death and fear, into detection of the guttering nightmare that is life, coldly seen." – Nick Land CONTENTS I. Black Stars Gary J. Shipley – Monster at the End: Pessimism’s Locked Rooms and Impossible Crimes Edia Connole – Contemplating the Crucifixion: Cohle and Divine Gloom Nicola Masciandaro – I Am Not Supposed To Be Here: Birth and Mystical Detection II. Separate From Itself Fintan Neylan – The Labour of the Pessimist: Detecting Expiration’s Artifice Paul J. Ennis – The Atmospherics of Consciousness Ben Woodard – Nothing Grows in the Right Direction: Scaling the Life of the Negative III. There Was A Videotape Niall McCann – True Detective, Jean-Luc Godard and Our Image Culture: ‘This May Well be Heaven, this Hell Smells the Same’ Daniel Fitzpatrick – ‘True Dick’ . . . The Accelerated Acceptance and Premature Canonisation of True Detective IV. It’s Just One Story Scott Wilson – The Nonsense of Detection: Truth Between Science and the Real Erin K. Stapleton – The Corpse is the Territory: The Body of Dora Kelly Lange in True Detective Caoimhe Doyle &amp; Katherine Foyle – The Flat Devil Net: Mapping Quantum Narratives in True Detective Daniel Colucciello Barber – Affect Has No Story V. And Closure–No, No, No Dominic Fox – koyntly bigyled Charlie Blake, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Edia Connole, Paul J. Ennis, Gary J. Shipley – Bird Trap Edge to Edge Caoimhe Doyle &amp; Katherine Foyle – The Chole Story

True Detection

Biographies & Memoirs

Shipley, Gary J.

Connole, Edia

Fitzpatrick, Daniel

WILSON, SCOTT

Woodard, Ben

Neylan, Fintan

Ennis, Paul J

McCann, Niall

Stapleton, Erin K

True Crime

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 DeumCONTENTSIntroduction: On “Heroes/Helden”Edia Connole &amp; Nicola MasciandaroFollowing the Stench: Watain and Putrefaction MysticismDrew DanielAblaze in the Bath of FireBrad BaumgartnerMycelegiumJames Harrisdying to find I was never thereTeresa GillespieOn the Ecstasy of Annihilation: Notes towards a Demonic SupplementCharlie BlakeAutonomy of Death, Nothing Like ThisDaniel Colucciello Barber“It’s a suit! It’s ME!”: Hyper-Star and Hyper-Hero through Black Sabbath's Iron Man Caoimhe Doyle &amp; Katherine FoyleThe Tongue-Tied Mystic: Aaaarrrgghhh! Fuck Them! Fuck You!Gary J. Shipley These Flames Will Lick the Feet of GodHeather MasciandaroMystical AnarchismSimon CritchleyDie Maske des Black MetalsDominik Irtenkauf Xenharmonic Black Metal: Radical Intervallics as Apophatic OntotheologyBrooker BuckinghamThe Perichoresis of Music, Art, and PhilosophyHunter Hunt-HendrixOn Darkness ItselfNiall ScottHaemálJeremy Dyer From Black BileEugene Thacker“This Place is a Tomb”: Infinite Terror in DarkspaceDylan TriggSeven Propositions On The Secret Kissing Of Black Metal: OSKVLVMEdia ConnoleWings Flock to My Crypt, I Fly to My Throne:On Inquisition’s Esoteric Floating TombNicola MasciandaroSymposium PhotographsÖykü TektenAPPENDIXBound to Metal (Interview with Edia Connole for Legacy) Dominik IrtenkaufTheoria e praxis del Black Metal (Interview by Fabio Selvafiorita for L’Intellettuale Dissidente)Nicola Masciandaro

Mors Mystica: Black Metal Theory Symposium

Arts & Photography

Harris, James

Barber, Daniel Colucciello

Daniel, Drew

Doyle, Caoimhe

Baumgartner, Brad

Gillespie, Teresa

Blake, Charlie

Foyle, Katherine

Music

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" - ArizmendaCONTENTS: Steven Shakespeare, "The Light that Illuminates Itself, the Dark that Soils Itself: Blackened Notes from Schelling's Underground." Erik Butler, "The Counter-Reformation in Stone and Metal: Spiritual Substances." Scott Wilson, "BAsileus philosoPHOrum METaloricum." Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, "Transcendental Black Metal." Nicola Masciandaro, "Anti-Cosmosis: Black Mahapralaya." Joseph Russo, "Perpetue Putesco - Perpetually I Putrefy." Benjamin Noys, "'Remain True to the Earth!': Remarks on the Politics of Black Metal." Evan Calder Williams, "The Headless Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Brandon Stosuy, "Meaningful Leaning Mess." Aspasia Stephanou, "Playing Wolves and Red Riding Hoods in Black Metal." Anthony Sciscione, "'Goatsteps Behind My Steps . . .': Black Metal and Ritual Renewal." Eugene Thacker, "Three Questions on Demonology." Niall Scott, "Black Confessions and Absu-lution." DOCUMENTS: Lionel Maunz, Pineal Eye; Oyku Tekten, Symposium Photographs; Scott Wilson, "Pop Journalism and the Passion for Ignorance"; Karlynn Holland, Sin Eater I-V; Nicola Masciandaro and Reza Negarestani, Black Metal Commentary; Black Metal Theory Blog Comments; Letter from Andrew White; E.S.S.E, Murder Devour I.HTTP://BLACKMETALTHEORY.BLOGSPOT.COM

Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal Theory Symposium I

Stosuy, Brandon

Williams, Evan Calder

Noys, Benjamin

Shakespeare, Steven

Butler, Erik

Russo, Joseph

Scott, Niall

Stephanou, Aspasia

Hunt-Hendrix, Hunter

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Schism press brings you its first anthology, edited by Nicola Masciandaro and Eugene Thacker. A collection of essays on beheading and cinema, with full color interior. Contents: Dominic Pettman, "What Came First, the Chicken or the Head?" - Eugene Thacker, "Thing and No-Thing" - Alexi Kukuljevic, "Suicide by Decapitation" - Alexander Galloway, "The Painted Peacock" - Evan Calder Williams, "Recapitation" - Nicola Masciandaro, "Decapitating Cinema" - Ed Keller, "Corpus Atomicus" - Gary J Shipley, "Remote Viewing." Photography by Leighton Pierce.

And They Were Two In One And One In Two

Keller, Ed

THACKER, EUGENE

Pettman, Dominic

Galloway, Alexander

Kukuljevic, Alexi

From Schism[2] Press Taking advantage of the ‘closet screenplay’ format to emphasize the cinematic ritualistic structure of contemporary imaginaries, Nicola Masciandaro’s SACER is an extraordinary techno-mystical, meta-cult fiction about the recurrently sacrificial nature of life and art. Following a set of characters linked to the cult horror movie FORSAKEN—including members of an enigmatic secret society, actors, filmakers and scholars, some of them suffering the hallucinatory effects of a neuro-hacking, virtual-reality Baphomet—, SACER is an audacious narrative investigation of, as Bataille would say, the sacred as sacrifice and the genuine ecstasy as violently negative. Under the explicit influence of E. Elias Merighe’s Begotten and Dario Argento’s Suspiria, Masciandaro invokes Augustine, Ignatius of Loyola, Cioran, Bataille, Klossowski, and the Hindu mahavidya Chinnamasta to explore the links between ecstasy, sacrifice, death, re-birth, and the neuro-alchemy of demonic possession deeply embedded in our technologies of perception. Germán Sierra

Sacer

Dramas & Plays

Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory is a collaborative collection of writings in black metal theory (BMT), an amorphous metallectual movement initiated in 2009 with the symposium Hideous Gnosis. This volume gathers together previously published and new work on BMT focusing on mysticism, a domain of thought and experience with deep connections both to the black metal genre and to theory (as theoria, vision, contemplation). More than a topic for BMT, the mystical is here explored in terms of the continuous intersection between black metal and theory, the ‘floating tomb’ wherein black metal is elevated into the intellectual and visionary experience that it already is.

Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory (Music)

Mimesis International

"For the will desires not to be dark, and this very desire causes the darkness” (Jacob Boehme). Moving through the fundamental question of this paradox, this book offers a constellation of theoretical and critical essays that shed light on the darkness of the will: its obscurity to itself. Through in-depth analysis of medieval and modern sources—Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eriugena, Dante, Meister Eckhart, Chaucer, Nietzsche, Cioran, Meher Baba—this volume interrogates the nature and meaning of the will, along seven modes: spontaneity, potentiality, sorrow, matter, vision, eros, and sacrifice. These multiple lines of inquiry are finally presented to coalesce around one fundamental point of agreement: the will says yes, yet only a will that knows how to say no to itself, entering the silence of its own darkness, will ever be free. Table of Contents Introduction I. The Whim of Reality: On the Question of Will II. Of a Leaden Hue: Chaucerian Non-Mysticism III. Sorrow of Being: In Calignem IV. The Tears of Matter: On the Crucifixion Darkness V. Because It's Not There: A Vision of Climbing and Life VI. The Inverted Rainbow: On the Color of Love VII. Inner Life | Inner Death: On the Threshold of the Sacred

On the Darkness of the Will (Philosophy)

History & Criticism

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