Bøger af Nicola Masciandaro

52 ghazals."Around the abyss of your radical event / Angels in bliss sing hymns to abnormality."

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

Glossator 9 (2015): Pearl. Edited by Nicola Masciandaro and Karl Steel. Twenty commentaries on the Middle-English poem Pearl, one for each section of the poem, with a preface by the editors.CONTENTS"Innoghe" A Preface on Inexhaustibility - Karl SteelThe Arbor and the Pearl: Encapsulating Meaning in "Spot" - William M. StormPearl, Fitt II - Kevin MartiPearl, Fitt III ("more and more") - Piotr Spyra"Py3t" Ornament, Place, and Site - A Commentary on the Fourth Fitt of Pearl - Daniel C. RemeinMeeting One's Maker: The Jeweler in Fitt V of Pearl - Noelle Phillips"Mercy Schal Hyr Craftez Kythe" Learning to Perform Re-Deeming Readings of Materiality in Pearl - James C. StaplesFitt 7: Blysse / (Envy) - Paul MegnaPearl, Fitt VIII - Kevin Marti"Ther is no date" The Middle English Pearl and its Work - Walter WadiakFitt X - More - Travis NeelEnough (Section XI) - Monika OtterFitt XII: Ryght - Kay MillerPearl, Fytt XIII - A. W. StrouseThe Jerusalem Lamb of PEARL - Jane BealFitt 15 - Lesse -Tekla BudeOut, Out, Damned Spot: Mote in Pearl and the Poems of the Pearl Manuscript - Karen BollermannSeeing John: A Commentary on the Link Word of Pearl Fitt XVII - Karen Elizabeth GrossTheoretical Lunacy: Moon, Text, and Vision in Fitt XVIII - Bruno M. Shah & Beth SutherlandDelyt and Desire: Ways of Seeing in Pearl - Anne Baden-DaintreeFitt XX - "Paye" - David Coley

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 AnagogicIII. Half Dead: Parsing CeciliaIV. WormsignV. Gourmandized in the Abattoir of OpennessVI. Grave Levitation: Being ScholarlyVII. Labor, Language, Laughter: Aesop and the Apophatic HumanVIII. This is Paradise: The Heresy of the PresentIX. Becoming Spice: Commentary as GeophilosophyX. Amor Fati: A Prosthetic GlossXI. Following the Sigh

Through an analysis of literary representations of work, this work explores how late medieval authors, influenced by the labor-related crises of the fourteenth century, sought to articulate the meaning of work in fresh and contrasting ways. It analyzes the Middle English terms to show how words for work were related to status and class attitudes.