We started off looking at the phenomenon of non-human horror (continuing from our discussions of Thacker last week), noting a progression(?) from the plant horror…
I also provided links to some guidance on conference going: here is a good guide on how to write abstracts, how to identify conferences, and how…
Some of the pleasant cows of Bréhat. by KARL STEEL Nearly two years ago (!), I outlined a prospectus for my next book. You’ll have…
by KARL STEEL Doctor Devil. From Prize Comics #22. Through Maaike van der Lugt’s wonderful Le ver, le démon, et la vierge : les théories…
Douai Bibliotheque municipale 887, 52v by KARL STEEL I had the fortune recently to be a keynote speaker at St John’s University Graduate English Conference, whose…
BN Latin 4846 and a nicely placed PLACUIT by KARL STEEL First of all, please read, if you haven’t already, the Babel fundraising pitch below,…
The big question for today was “agency.” How can nonhuman materials be said to have it, and how can humans be said to have it?…
We heard about Dorothy Kim’s recent talk at NYU about “Pleasure in the Digital Archive.” By way of introducing theArchive of Early Middle English, and…
We spent a lot of time talking about //postmedieval// Ecomaterialism, where nearly everyone read Trigg and Cohen on fire, and many read Mentz on air, and…
We started with a recent NY Times editorial, “Why Nothing is Truly Alive.” Illustrating his point with Strandbeest, Ferris Jabr argues: “Not only is defining life…
