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Thursday, June 11, 2015

The Impossible is Inevitable



"The Impossible is Inevitable," Segue Reading Series, Zinc Bar, NYC. 

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Whim after all is a whim; and, by its very nature, it is such that “why—wherefore—when” can find no place in its nature. A whim may come at any moment; it may come now or after a few months or after years, and it may not come at all.
- Meher Baba

Select Writings

  • Absolute Secrecy: On the Infinity of Individuation [The Enigmatic Absolute]
  • Anti-Cosmosis: Black Mahapralaya [Hideous Gnosis]
  • Astonished by Christina [Plinth]
  • Becoming Spice: Commentary as Geophilosophy [Collapse]
  • Between Angela and Actaeon: Dislocation [L'Esprit Createur]
  • Beyond the Sphere: A Dialogic Commentary on the Ultimate Sonetto of Dante's Vita Nuova
  • Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath: A Gloss on Heavy Metal's Originary Song [Reconstruction]
  • Come Cosa Che Cada: Habit and Cataclysm, or, Exploding Plasticity [French Theory Today]
  • Comments on Eugene Thacker's 'Cosmic Pessimism' [Continent]
  • Conjuring the Phantasm (Review of Giorgio Agamben's Signature of All Things) [Theory & Event]
  • Consciousness, Individuality, Mortality: Basic Thoughts about Work and the Animal/Human Boundary [Cultural Logic]
  • Dante | Hafiz: Readings on the Sigh, the Gaze, and Beauty [Pinsapo]
  • Dark Wounds of Light [Vestiges]
  • Decapitating Cinema [And They Were Two In One And One In Two]
  • dESIRE Gloss: A Specimen [Glossator]
  • Eros as Cosmic Sorrow [Mystics Quarterly]
  • Event of Oneself
  • Everything Is Your Fault [Philosophical Salon]
  • Falling Out of Language, Animally [Whiskey & Fox]
  • Firebox [Black Hyperbox]
  • Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory [Mimesis]
  • Following the Sigh [Bezna]
  • Getting Anagogic [Rhizomes]
  • Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness [Leper Creativity]
  • Grave Levitation [Loveeee Journal]
  • Green Imagination [Pinsapo Journal]
  • Habit and Cataclysm, or, Exploding Plasticity [French Theory Today]
  • Half Dead: Parsing Cecilia [Dark Chaucer]
  • I Am Not Supposed To Be Here: Birth and Mystical Detection [Black Sun Lit]
  • Image Speed Intelligence [For Machine Use Only]
  • Individuation: This Stupidity [Postmedieval]
  • Marvelous Harmony: On Christina the Astonishing [Cyclops]
  • Marvelous Harmony: On Christina the Astonishing, Part II: Spinning [Cyclops]
  • Metal Studies and the Scission of the Word [Journal for Cultural Research]
  • Mysticism or Mystification?: Against Subject -Creationism [English Language Notes]
  • Nearly Mad for Sorrow: On Time, the Demon, and Being (at One’s Wits’ End) in the Cloud of Unknowing
  • Never Born, Never Die: Individuation, Mutation & Mystical Birth via Gebser’s Ever-Present Origin [Diaphany]
  • Nietzsche's Amor Fati: Wishing and Willing in a Cybernetic Circuit [The Digital Dionysius]
  • No One Can Tell: On the Silent Glamour of Meher Baba [Silhouettes of the Soul]
  • Non potest hoc corpus decollari: Beheading and the Impossible [Heads Will Roll]
  • Obiectum [Speculative Medievalisms]
  • Ocean Seeping Eyes
  • On “Heroes/Helden” [Mors Mystica]
  • On the Darkness of the Will [Mimesis]
  • Paradiscial Pessimism: On the Crucifixion Darkness and the Cosmic Materiality of Sorrow [Qui Parle]
  • Per Speculum in Aenigmate [Speculative Medievalisms]
  • Purgatory / Sorrow [Unsound/Undead]
  • Reflections from the Intoxological Crucible [Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness]
  • SACER [Schism Press]
  • Secret: No Light Has Ever Seen the Black Universe [Dark Nights of the Universe]
  • Sufficient Unto the Day: Sermones Contra Solicitudinem [Schism Press]
  • Synaesthesia: The Mystical Sense of Law [Routledge Research Handbook on Law and Theory]
  • The Berithic Wanderer: Daemonus Monsmoranciensis [Serial Killing]
  • The One with a Hand: An Essay on Embodiment, Labor, and Alienation [Rhizomes]
  • The Seriality of the One [Anthem]
  • The Severed Hand: Commentary and Ecstasy [English Language Notes]
  • The Sorrow of Being [Qui Parle]
  • The Sweetness (of the Law) [TASTE]
  • The Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature [Notre Dame Press]
  • The Whim of Reality: On the Question of Will [QoW]
  • Thrilling Divine Romance [Ich bin ein Junge]
  • To Become Purposeless: A Failure [Phono-Fictions and Other Felt Thoughts]
  • Unknowing Animals [Speculations]
  • What Is This That Stands Before Me?: Metal as Deixis [Reflections in the Metal Void]
  • Whoever I Am: On the Quality of Life [Religions]
  • Wings Flock to My Crypt, I Fly to My Throne: On Inquisition’s Esoteric Floating Tomb [Mors Mystica]
  • WormSign [Melancology]

(Co-)Edited Volumes

  • And They Were Two In One And One In Two
  • Dante | Hafiz
  • Dark Chaucer
  • Dark Nights of the Universe
  • Glossator 6: Black Metal
  • Glossator 7: The Mystical Text
  • Glossator 9: Pearl
  • Hideous Gnosis
  • Leper Creativity
  • Mors Mystica
  • Speculative Medievalisms
  • True Detection

Miscellaneous

  • Anti-Cosmosis: Black Mahapralaya (Hideous Gnosis) [audio]
  • Because It's Not There: A Vision of Climbing and Life (Tuning Speculation IV) [video]
  • drØwn yØurself in this Øcean of lØve (Ephemeropterae, TBA21) [video]
  • Fire & Iron: On Mystical Becoming—and the Question of Culture (Escula Incierta), part 1 [video]
  • Fire & Iron: On Mystical Becoming—and the Question of Culture (Escula Incierta), part 2 [video]
  • Fire & Iron: On Mystical Becoming—and the Question of Culture (Escula Incierta), part 3 [video]
  • Following the Sigh (Congress of Pessimism) [audio]
  • Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness [video]
  • Interview (L'Intellettuale Dissidente), part 1
  • Interview (L'Intellettuale Dissidente), part 2
  • Interview (Queen Mob's Teahouse)
  • Interview (Word Riot)
  • Interview on Bergmetal (Tristam Adams)
  • Interview on Black Metal Theory (Avantgarde Metal)
  • Interview on Black Metal, with Eugene Thacker (audio)
  • Marvelous Harmony (Tuning Speculation VI) [video]
  • Mystical Auscultation (Tuning Speculation II) [video]
  • Notes and Quotes on the Gaze (Dante/Hafiz II)
  • On Commentary (Para-academia & Theory-Fiction) [audio]
  • On the Darkness of the Will [Hermitix Podcast]
  • THE HOUSE IN THE SKY (excerpt) – Kevin Slavin & Nicola Masciandaro
  • The Impossible is Inevitable (Segue Reading Series) [audio]
  • The Miracle of the Sigh (Reading the Sigh) [audio]
  • The Whim of Reality: On the Question of Will [video]
  • The Work of Meher Baba [Hermitix Podcast]
  • To Become Purposeless: A Failure (Tuning Speculation NYC) [audio]

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