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Speculative Medievalisms: Discography,Used
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Proceedings from two Speculative Medievalisms symposia, held at Kings 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 ORourke). These interdisciplinary events were dedicated to dialogue and crosscontamination between traditional concepts of speculatio, presentminded premodern studies, and contemporary speculative realist and objectoriented philosophies. In its medieval formulation, speculatio signifies the essentially reflective and imaginative operations of the intellect. Here the world, books, and mind itself are all conceived as specula (mirrors) through which the hermeneutic gaze can gain access to what lies beyond it. To know is to bend over a mirror where the world is reflected, to descry images reflected from sphere to sphere: the medieval man was always before a mirror, both when he looked around himself and when he surrendered to his own imagination (Giorgio Agamben, Stanzas). Correlatively, speculative realism, as the term suggests, is characterized by the selfcontradictory intensity of a desire for thought that can think beyond itself a desire that proceeds, like all philosophy, in a twisted and productive relation to the phantasm of the word. Aiming to rise above and tunnel below the thoughtbeing or selfworld correlation, speculative realism depart[s] from the textcentered hermeneutic models of the past and engage[s] in daring speculations about the nature of reality itself (The Speculative Turn). Speculative Medievalisms, like some weird friaralchemist in an inexistent romance, plays the erotic gobetween for these textcentered and texteccentric intellectual domains by trying to transmute the space between past and present modes of speculation from shared blindness to love at first sight. Possibly succeeding, the volume brings together the work of a motley crew of philosophers and premodernists into prismatic relation.Contents: Kathleen Biddick, Toy Stories: Vita Nuda Then and Now? Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Sublunary Graham Harman, Aristotle With a Twist Anna Klosowska, Transmission by Sponge: Aristotles Poetics J. Allan Mitchell, Cosmic Eggs, or Events Before Everything Kellie Robertson, Abusing Aristotle Anthony Paul Smith, The Speculative Angel Nick Srnicek, Abstraction and Value: The Medieval Origins of Financial Quantification Eugene Thacker, Divine Darkness Scott Wilson, Neroplatonism Julian Yates, Shakespeares Kitchen Archives. With response and postscript essays by: Liza Blake, Patricia Clough, Drew Daniel, Eileen A. Joy and Anna Klosowska, Nicola Masciandaro, Michael ORourke, and Ben Woodard.
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