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Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness
- Nicola Masciandaro (author)
Chapter of: Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium(pp. 181–191)
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| Title | Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Nicola Masciandaro (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0017.1.12 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/leper-creativity-cyclonopedia-symposium/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Masciandaro, Nicola |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2012-12-22 |
| Long abstract | Cyclonopedia is a book that opens Earth to the divini-ty of reality. The intoxicating effect of its theory-fiction terror is to defuse the double, mutual hostage-taking of philosophy and religion, their shared aporet-ic stand-off according to which reality remains the occluded object of fiction and divinity the eclipsed object of theory. Here theory-fiction is not a cool new hybrid capable of synthesizing and rescripting their domains towards an iterable new science or disci-pline. It is not about unifying and resolving their dou-ble truth. Instead the book is a trisonic betrayal that is treacherously against both via treason of each to the other. Cyclonopedia thus takes place in a new time that it instantiates and narrates: Incognitum Hactenus, or anonymous-until-Now, “a double-dealing mode of time connecting abyssal time scales to our chronologi-cal time, thus exposing us to the horror of times be-yond.” Anonymous-until-Now is the time of Cyclonopedic writing, the date of this symposium, an evental logic that deals with local and cosmic time as it does with fiction and theory. In this time, “things leak into each other according to a logic that does not belong to us and cannot be correlated to our chrono-logical time.”Chronos leaks into theory (the vision of aiôn), aiôn leaks into fiction (the narration of chronos). Inverting the messianic now wherein time is kairically suspended above chronicity as “the time we need to make time end: the time that is left us [il tem-po che ci resta],”Cyclonopedia chronically inters kairos into a time we no longer need to make time begin: the time that never was ours. Now that all life is over, every moment is opportune, the time of human gods and divine demons, a present stretching far be-yond the limits of past and future. In place of the ex-pectation of resurrection the book offers a funerary feast: “God turns himself into a good meal for the hu-man, the earth and the outside.” In place of Arma-geddon it offers the terrestrial playground of White War, the abode of unbounded, as opposed to final, conflict, “at once the white of impenetrable fog and the color of peace.” Incognitum Hactenus is a revolu-tionary enthymeme or argument-without-assumption, applicable in all spheres, that stabs at the heart of the mutual exclusiveness of plans and peace, the wanting-to-have-it-both-ways of human worry whose global monument is the Middle East Peace Plan. |
| Page range | pp. 181–191 |
| Print length | 11 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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