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Monday, October 06, 2008

Eros as Cosmic Sorrow

PDF: Eros as Cosmic Sorrow: Locating the Limits of Difference in Julian of Norwich and The Cloud of Unknowing
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  • "Animal Beauty," in Fiction International #40: Animals
  • (with Anna Klosowska) Beyond the Sphere: A Dialogic Commentary on the Ultimate Sonetto of Dante's Vita Nuova
  • Beheading and the Impossible
  • Black Metal Commentary - CFP
  • Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath: A Gloss on Heavy Metal's Originary Song (pdf)
  • Eros as Cosmic Sorrow: Locating the Limits of Difference
  • Labor, Language, Laughter: Aesop and the Apophatic Human
  • The One with a Hand: An Essay on Embodiment, Labor, and Alienation
  • The Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature
  • What is This that Stands before Me?: Metal as Deixis

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      • All the Scum, All the Rubbish . . .
      • The Feeling? Rotting Moon
      • Anti-Cosmosis: Black Mahapralaya (text)
      • Anti-Cosmosis: Black Mahapralaya (audio)
      • Four Perspectives on Your Head
    • ►  November (3)
      • Lecture: Beheading and the Impossible
      • Problem is not anything in particular
      • Sorrow, Funny
    • ►  October (5)
      • Sublime Celestia
      • Hideous Gnosis Schedule and Flyers
      • Glossator via Googlebooks
      • Hear divinity in the corpse’s every pore
      • Invitation to Paradise
    • ►  September (6)
      • Random Notes on Liturgy’s Renihilation
      • Glossator One, print volumes available
      • The Severed Hand: Commentary as Ecstasy (another a...
      • Post-Abysmal Roundtable Abstract: Getting Anagogic...
      • The One with a Hand
      • Glossator One
    • ►  August (6)
      • INDIVIDUATION: THIS STUPIDITY
      • Glossed Ghazal
      • Black Metal Theory
      • No predicting this ontological panic
      • that
      • Who writes heart-words holding keys to the doors o...
    • ►  July (5)
      • . . . Al cor dolente, che lo fa parlare.
      • How this life is happening inside a bright cave
      • The worry-machine of materialism
      • A face always before me, a face in the air
      • Attending to a sigh
    • ►  June (6)
      • In visione tua dissolutae sunt compages meae
      • Secretum meum mihi
      • Question: is something causing cosmos to appear?
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      • Phenomenal Black Metal Trinity
      • Happening Somewhere this Winter: Hideous Gnosis --...
    • ►  May (8)
      • Your gaze is a speculative reality
      • Dust mote dictates empyrean conspiracy
      • Still Sphering
      • Dialetheic Divinity, Auto-Spectrality, Life After ...
      • New Home for Sabbath Gloss
      • Through the Tiny Sandstorm . . . Oriental Black Me...
      • Grave Levitation: Being Scholarly
      • See here, there, the pure horror of the human form...
    • ►  April (4)
      • The Future of Commentary: Podcast
      • Splendoring
      • More Sphere
      • Anti-Cosmosis (abstract)
    • ►  March (8)
      • Getting to Know the Counterfeited Churl
      • Severed Thoughts on Severed Ways
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    • ►  December (1)
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      • Negate panpsychism's impossibility
      • Good, Evil, Deconstruction, Perception, Dust
      • Metal as Deixis
      • Incognitum Hactenus, Dialetheia, Whim, Potentialit...
      • Eros as Cosmic Sorrow
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