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Tis Magick, Magick That Will Have Ravished Me
- Lisa Weston (author)
Chapter of: Burn after Reading: Vol. 1, Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies + Vol. 2, The Future We Want: A Collaboration(pp. 119–126)
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| Title | Tis Magick, Magick That Will Have Ravished Me |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Lisa Weston (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0067.1.25 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/burn-after-reading/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Weston, Lisa |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2014-04-28 |
| Long abstract | Medievalists, especially philologists like me—and perhapslike some of you as well—weplay with dead things. With-in the late capitalist, utilitarian, increasingly techno-bur-eaucratic and determinedly non-magical University, our fondness for the impractical arts and humanities and such, our philological and historical pursuits may well ap-pear an unseemly(or at least useless) preoccupation with the past, a philia(or paraphilia) for“dead”languages and cultures.Necrophilia, not to put too fine a point onit.But in the face of such institutional abjection, let us not sur-render our philiaso much as transform it—into mantia. Let us (re)claim and reconstruct our engagement with the “dead” as necromancy—from the Latin necromantia, bor-rowed in turn from post-Classical Greek νεκρομαντεια (nekromanteía), from νεκρος(nekrós) “dead body” and μαντεια(manteía) “prophecy or divination”—the discovery of hidden knowledge and especially the prediction or perhaps rathercreation of the future through intercourse (pun intended) with the “dead” past. |
| Page range | pp. 119–126 |
| Print length | 8 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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