Incubus-Demons, Magic, and the Spaces Between the Moon and the Earth: Jeffrey Cohen and Ben Woodard @Speculative Medievalisms 2

Posted on November 24, 2011March 30, 2018 by Eileen Joy

by EILEEN JOY Erratic angels, like the incubus-demon, the Fairy King and Merlin, are the vicars or intermediaries who make possible the world’s vibrancy by enabling contact and relation. They allow the emergence of transformative textualities, even while they themselves are left behind at that luminous advent. –Jeffrey Cohen, “Sublunary” Perhaps then the sublunary, as[…]

dead letter office: A New Imprint from punctum books and BABEL Working Group

Posted on November 7, 2011March 30, 2018 by Eileen Joy

by EILEEN JOY The United States Postal Service started a dead letter office in 1825 to deal with undeliverable mail. In 2006 approximately 90 million undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) items ended up in this office; where the rightful owners cannot be identified, the correspondence is destroyed to protect customer privacy, and enclosed items of value are removed.Items[…]

The “Life” of the Theory Journal Has Not Been Brief, It Is Only Beginning

Posted on November 4, 2011October 7, 2017 by Eileen Joy

by EILEEN JOY [cross-posted to In The Middle] In the 16 October 2011 edition of The Chronicle Review, an essay appeared by Jeffrey J. Williams, “The Brief, Wondrous Life of the Theory Journal,” which argues that a certain “wave” of new theory journals in the 1970s (with the founding of journals such as New Literary[…]

All Things: Jeffrey Cohen’s Introduction to “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral”

Posted on October 19, 2011March 30, 2018 by Eileen Joy

by JEFFREY COHEN [cross-posted to In The Middle] Below, a portion of my introduction to Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects. Follow the previous link to read its table of contents. The volume is the first of several to be published through a partnership between GW MEMSI and punctum books. Pleas also consider liking Oliphaunt[…]

Thinking About An Insomniac Humanities

Posted on October 13, 2011March 30, 2018 by Eileen Joy

by EILEEN JOY [cross-posted to In The Middle] Every known object rotates as if: b. keeping busy c. stunned –Rae Armantrout, “Arrivals” We address the question of our aliveness to the object of fascination because contemplating such an object allows us to suspend our aliveness without suffering from it; in reverie, in gazing, we are[…]

Twisted Aristotle and the Great Indoors: Re-Booting Ontology with Graham Harman, Patricia Clough, and Nicola Masciandaro

Posted on October 9, 2011March 30, 2018 by Eileen Joy

If the Middle Ages is a machine of the Great Indoors, of the Ptolemaic world, of the cosmic egg, then we have to think the Great Indoors is living in the Great Outdoors, not just pointing to it from within. –Nicola Masciandaro, from his closing remarks to Speculative Medievalisms 2: A Laboratory-Atelier by EILEEN JOY[…]

The Disaster Is Up to Us: Julian Yates and Liza Blake on Metaphysics, Composing, and Kitchening

Posted on October 1, 2011March 30, 2018 by Eileen Joy

Figure 1. Douglas Hodge as Titus and Sarah Rees as Lavinia in 2006 production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus at the Globe Theatre by EILEEN JOY [cross-posted to In The Middle] Composition may be the recipe for deriving a practice from Object Oriented Ontology, or Speculative Realism, but the disaster is up to us. –Liza Blake,[…]

Riding the Lynx-Eyed Aristotle with Kellie Robertson, Graham Harman, and Drew Daniel

Posted on September 29, 2011March 30, 2018 by Eileen Joy

Joining this company, with paws extended, and pupils dilated wide, Ockham’s lynx-eyed Aristotle stands poised to forage for what lies hidden within the dark world of physical nature that Graham Harman’s project has plumbed so fiercely. –Drew Daniel, Response to Kellie Robertson @Speculative Medievalisms 2: A Laboratory Atelier Figure 1. Kellie Robertson’s mashup of Graham[…]