Michael O’Rourke
Speculative Medievalisms: A Laboratory-Atelier
Sicut sensus non potest sentire sine sensibili, ita anima non potest intelligere sine phantasmate – Thomas Aquinas, Sentencia libri De anima, III.12 Edited by The Petropunk Collective (Eileen A. Joy, Anna Klosowska, Nicola Masciandaro, and Michael O’Rourke) Proceedings from the two Speculative Medievalisms symposia, held at King’s College London (Jan. 2011) and The Graduate Center, City // Read more…
Queering Speculative Realism
Michael O’Rourke Queering Speculative Realism is the first book to explore and fully work through the as yet under-acknowledged points of connection between the disparate fields of Queer Theory, Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology. The book is composed of ten brief chapters that mine what might be called the “proper objects” of queer inquiry. // Read more…
The Pervert’s Guide to Reading.
Éamonn Dunne and Michael O’Rourke The oxymoronically perverse Guide to Reading proceeds by detours and digressions and doesn’t seek to guide anyone anywhere in particular, let alone try to tell you what a pervert is, if there is such a thing. There is a real danger in trying to do that, since the word pervert // Read more…
