...Nicola Masciandaro Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Paradisical Pessimism On the Crucifi xion Darkness and the Cosmic Materiality of Sorrow nicola masciandaro Sunt lacrimae rerum —Virgil, Aeneid 1.462 All men have matter of sorrow; but most specially he feels...

... “correspondences,” including the veritably McGlazer: The Fortress Deserted 155 cosmic correspondences delineated in “Far Out” (tt, 82). This essay, the penultimate chapter in Thoughts and Things, beautifully suggests that the relations that most interest Bersani...

... was closer to an archeology than it was to a narrative. Lastly, he made apparent a play of contradictory tendencies between two poles: of the magical function of sacrifice, on the one hand, and cosmic contemplation, on the other. Warburg had already shown the ambi- guity of civil and religious...

... (experiencers) and people who are taken against their will (abductees) by analyzing 130 UFO abduction narratives. She organizes all narratives into four categories—physical salvation, hybridization, betterment of humanity, and cosmic humanity—and argues that each one reflects the acculturation and desires...

...: An Introduction .” Representations , no. 108 ( 2009 ): 1 – 21 . Campany David . A Handful of Dust: From the Cosmic to the Domestic . London : Mack , 2017 . Celan Paul . Poems of Paul Celan , translated by Hamburger Michael . New York : Persea , 1988 . Chaouli Michel...

..., that is, as concrescence, acceding, in the context of the Anthropocene, not just to an industrial but to a cosmic dimension) as absolute nonknowledge. This concretization, however, is not sustainable, precisely because it is an abstraction—because living knowledge, when it is mortified, becomes nonknowledge, that is, so...

... of the water. In movement it is a distinct individual; at rest it fades and disappears into the ocean. The human individual is said to be a “co-worker” of God be- cause in him the universal cosmic movement becomes conscious of Diagne: Bergson...

..., Canguilhem argued, following Koyré) could be understood as analogous to the present time: “In the atomic age, amidst a divided humanity, we have the means to imagine what the cosmic revolution was for a no less divided Chris- tianity.” By comparison to this cosmic revolution, he noted, “the Lis- bon...

.... Martin, Paul outlines three distinct modes of reconciliation in his epistles: personal, cosmic, and ethnic. Person- al reconciliation imputes human sin to Christ so that sinners might break with their old lives and begin life anew under Christ’s sov- ereignty.29 Cosmic reconciliation restores...

..., it is necessary to make the Earth’s concrete transcen- dental more material and historical: let us consider Earth neither as an ob- ject nor as a sub- ject, but as a trans- ject (un trajet), a cosmic trajectory whose history began before the too narrow human histo- ry.37 Earth is not just a ground on which...

... dogma, reminding us of all the forces that exceed human control. It shows us that our map of the world is a medieval one, “pointing to the unknown in all directions . . . on the scale of incomputable cosmic complexity” ( ap , 169). Together, Afro-Dog ; Race Matters, Animal Matters...

... are embedded in a phenomenological lifeworld, tucked up like little hobbits into the safety of our burrow. . . . The specialness we granted ourselves as unravelers of cosmic mean- ing, exemplifi ed in the uniqueness of Heideggerian Dasein, falls 262 qui parle 23:1 • review essays apart...

... the absolute token of passage into adulthood throughout the industrialized world: the keys to dad's car — in Phaeton's case, the reins to the solar chariot.6 Phaeton's inability to achieve mastery over the vehicle's literal horse- power leads to a thrill ride and cosmic calamity among whose lat- ter...

..., aristocratic, democratic, or even despotic (because the despot is supposed to play a deter- mining role in the maintenance of cosmic order). It must be under- stood that the law that structures relations between humans— in whatever way it sets out to do so—situates them within...

... system in the field of natural science": The Copernican hypothesis reversed the conception of the cosmic order In the same sense the acquaintance with Sanskrit literature made an end to that conception of hu- man culture which saw its real and only center in the world...

...; divination incarnates us as momentary gods. Geomancy furthermore presumes a relationship between the cosmic order and the human body, conceiving of the earth in effect as a body. 16 Traditional geomancers practiced divination by earthly signs to maintain human harmony with what was conceived...

... that at the hand of unjust human actions, as cosmically just. Fallen humanity deserves nothing but misery. The absoluteness of that justice is what gives divine grace its in- fi nite scope (as well as its selectiveness and arbitrariness). In this, Pascal’s Jansenism approaches Calvinism, and in some sense...

... that very bodily life as the ante they risk in the cosmic gamble of overseas adventure that they em- bark upon.29 Rather than simply an ideological effect of capitalism, these practices of self- lending draw on the same seemingly anach- ronistic “political economy” and ontology...

... Jung’s monism of (desexualized) libido, she missed the crucial par- adox: it is at this very point, when he resorts to the dualism of drives, that Freud is at his most Jungian, regressing to a premod- ern mythic agonism of opposite primordial cosmic forces. How, then, are we...

... individual and even the nation-state. The scope of the new society puts strains on all the actors involved, but it can be realized by a creative force cosmic in its reach. The Great War is thus reconfi gured as a battle of life and matter over the fu- ture of the post-human world...