Nicola Masciandaro
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…
Dark Chaucer: An Assortment
Edited by Eileen A. Joy & Nicola Masciandaro by the shadwe he took his wit (CT II.10) Chaucer’s work is subtly shot through with dark moments that open into obscure and irresolvably haunting vistas, passages into which one might fall head-first and never reach the abyssal bottom. Opting to dilate rather than cordon off this darkness, // Read more…
Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium
“Anything can happen for some weird reason; yet also, without any reason, nothing at all can happen.” — Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium Edited by Ed Keller, Nicola Masciandaro & Eugene Thacker Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, 2012. 310 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0615600468. Free download + $17.00 in print. Essays, articles, // Read more…
