Nicola Masciandaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 642903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Masciandaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Masciandaro |
| SIGNATURE | MASCIANDARO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-1039-6667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Whoever I Am
What is the relation between quantification and the mysterious question of identity? What order of quality is proper to the inexplicable fact that one is oneself? Starting with an examination of the ontological blind spots of counting, this essay investigates the priority of quality over quantity, in connection with the spiritual nature of life understood as the spontaneous and infinitely evolving question of itself. It argues, in face of the for…
Gloss
Gloss Nicola Masciandaro (bio) To discover in the analysis of the small individual moment the crystal of the total event. ... To grasp the construction of history as such. In the structure of commentary. Walter Benjamin1 All our so-called consciousness is a more or less fantastic commentary on an unknown, perhaps unknowable, but felt text. Friedrich Nietzsche2 The fruit of faith [is] understanding, so that we may arrive at eternal life, where the…
Leper Creativity
Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place in March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience, pro…
Paradisical Pessimism
Leper Creativity
Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place in March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience, pro…
Mysticism or Mystification
What is called subjectivity is really just a small region of a much larger space of interactions between beings: coffee cups, sea foam, flakes of obsidian, and nebulae. To realize this is to enter into a larger world in which humans coexist with a plenitude of uncanny entities that for shorthand's sake Timothy Morton's essay calls objects. Ecological awareness just is the human attunement to this coexistence. Many of these objects are large enoug…
The Severed Hand
Research Article| September 01 2012 The Severed Hand: Commentary and Ecstasy Nicola Masciandaro Nicola Masciandaro Brooklyn College [email protected] Nicola Masciandaro is associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY and a specialist in medieval literature whose work falls in the areas of mysticism, philosophy, and para-academia. He is the author of The Voice of the Hammer (Notre Dame, 2007), editor of Hideous Gnosis (n.p., 20…
Leper Creativity
Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani?s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place in March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience, pro…
Metal Studies and the Scission of the Word
[T]he problem of knowledge is a problem of possession, and every problem of possession is a problem of enjoyment, that is, of language. (Agamben 1993, p. xvii) My way into metal studies is bound up
The Sorrow of Being
Research Article| June 01 2010 The Sorrow of Being Nicola Masciandaro Nicola Masciandaro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 9–35. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.1.0009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nicola Masciandaro; The Sorrow of Being. Qui Parle 1 June 2010; 19 (1): 9–35. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.1.0009 Down…
Conjuring the Phantasm
Conjuring the Phantasm Nicola Masciandaro (bio) Giorgio Agamben. The Signature of All Things: On Method. Trans. Luca D’Isanto with Kevin Attell. New York: Zone Books, 2009. US$24.95 (hardcover), 124 pages. ISBN 978-1-890951-98-6 The Signature of All Things is an epistemological procession through three dimensions of the “third area” that Giorgio Agamben, in his now thirty-three-year-old seminal work on the phantasm, identified as the site where “…
Individuation
Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England
Gordon A. McMullan and David Matthews, eds. Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ix + 287 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $96. ISBN: 978–0–521–86843–3. - Volume 61 Issue 3
Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England
Gordon A. McMullan and David Matthews, eds. Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ix + 287 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $96. ISBN: 978–0–521–86843–3. - Volume 61 Issue 3
The Sorrow of Being
Research Article| June 01 2010 The Sorrow of Being Nicola Masciandaro Nicola Masciandaro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 9–35. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.1.0009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nicola Masciandaro; The Sorrow of Being. Qui Parle 1 June 2010; 19 (1): 9–35. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.1.0009 Down…
Conjuring the Phantasm
Conjuring the Phantasm Nicola Masciandaro (bio) Giorgio Agamben. The Signature of All Things: On Method. Trans. Luca D’Isanto with Kevin Attell. New York: Zone Books, 2009. US$24.95 (hardcover), 124 pages. ISBN 978-1-890951-98-6 The Signature of All Things is an epistemological procession through three dimensions of the “third area” that Giorgio Agamben, in his now thirty-three-year-old seminal work on the phantasm, identified as the site where “…
Individuation
Metal Studies and the Scission of the Word
[T]he problem of knowledge is a problem of possession, and every problem of possession is a problem of enjoyment, that is, of language. (Agamben 1993, p. xvii) My way into metal studies is bound up
Leper Creativity
Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place in March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience, pro…
Mysticism or Mystification
What is called subjectivity is really just a small region of a much larger space of interactions between beings: coffee cups, sea foam, flakes of obsidian, and nebulae. To realize this is to enter into a larger world in which humans coexist with a plenitude of uncanny entities that for shorthand's sake Timothy Morton's essay calls objects. Ecological awareness just is the human attunement to this coexistence. Many of these objects are large enoug…
The Severed Hand
Research Article| September 01 2012 The Severed Hand: Commentary and Ecstasy Nicola Masciandaro Nicola Masciandaro Brooklyn College [email protected] Nicola Masciandaro is associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY and a specialist in medieval literature whose work falls in the areas of mysticism, philosophy, and para-academia. He is the author of The Voice of the Hammer (Notre Dame, 2007), editor of Hideous Gnosis (n.p., 20…
Leper Creativity
Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani?s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place in March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience, pro…
Paradisical Pessimism
Leper Creativity
Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place in March 2011 at The New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience, pro…
Gloss
Gloss Nicola Masciandaro (bio) To discover in the analysis of the small individual moment the crystal of the total event. ... To grasp the construction of history as such. In the structure of commentary. Walter Benjamin1 All our so-called consciousness is a more or less fantastic commentary on an unknown, perhaps unknowable, but felt text. Friedrich Nietzsche2 The fruit of faith [is] understanding, so that we may arrive at eternal life, where the…
Whoever I Am
What is the relation between quantification and the mysterious question of identity? What order of quality is proper to the inexplicable fact that one is oneself? Starting with an examination of the ontological blind spots of counting, this essay investigates the priority of quality over quantity, in connection with the spiritual nature of life understood as the spontaneous and infinitely evolving question of itself. It argues, in face of the for…
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