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Lapidary Demons: Response to Anthony Paul Smith

Chapter of: Speculative Medievalisms: Discography(pp. 65–71)

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TitleLapidary Demons
SubtitleResponse to Anthony Paul Smith
ContributorBen Woodard(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0021.1.08
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculative-medievalisms/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightWoodard, Ben
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2013-01-17
Long abstractGiven the problem of localizing the power of speculation in the pre-modern assisted by the impertinent form of the angel, I wish to approach the irruption of workable forms, of the non-ideological message, through Naturephilosophie, through somewhat weird (and hopefully medieval) means, with the construction of Lapidary Demons as a diagonal response. Stone appears as the recapitulation of immanence, of mat-ter seemingly foreclosed and foreclosing, the material of in-ternment and memorial. The stone, the movement of the in-organic, indexes deep time and the failure of the category of the inorganic itself in Naturephilosophie, since we find stone participating in the partial dominion of life on matter, in DeLanda's well known narrative of mineralization in homo sapiens endoskeletons.1 Similarly, dwelling or the carving of knowledge on stone redirects the torpid trajectory of its re-shapings, albeit only slightly.
Page rangepp. 65–71
Print length7 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)