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(W)omen out/of Time: Metis, Medea, Mahakali

Chapter of: After the "Speculative Turn": Realism, Philosophy, and Feminism(pp. 133–157)

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Title(W)omen out/of Time
SubtitleMetis, Medea, Mahakali
ContributorNandita Biswas Mellamphy(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0152.1.11
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/after-the-speculative-turn-realism-philosophy-and-feminism/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightMellamphy, Nandita Biswas
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-10-26
Long abstract“What if Truth were an Omen?” I ask (with a nod to Ni-etzsche4 — through a glass, darkly). What if Truth were a Nam-shub, a Magic Word/Work, the nomen of an omen? Such a truth advances here — in this essay — masked as women. Metis, Me-dea, and Mahakali — first, a Pelasgian Titan, the first wife of Zeus and unacknowledged mother of Athena, who was doomed to be swallowed up whole and usurped by the head of Olympus; second, a foreign priestess of the chthonic Hecate, who (as first told in Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautika and later immortal-ized by Euripides and Seneca) helps the Greek Jason retrieve the mythic golden fleece, and who eventually murders her entire family and escapes back to Colchis; and finally, a fringe Hindu goddess first worshipped by criminals and outcastes, a dark de-ity clothed in severed heads, who drinks the blood of her vic-tims and resides in the cremation-ground — one who comes to be adopted as an incarnation of great time (mahākāla) or death itself in Hindu religion.
Page rangepp. 133–157
Print length25 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Keywords
  • speculative realism
  • object studies
  • feminism
  • new realisms
  • new materialisms
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