08 Wednesday Jul 2015
Posted in Scholarly works
The fantastic in a transmedia era: new theories, texts, contexts, 24th – 25th November 2015, University of Southern Denmark, northern Europe.
What does the fantastic look and feel like in different media and how do stories — affectively and aesthetically — behave when changing form? What significant developments demand our attention, from mash-up narratives to TV genre hybrids? How do audiences engage with the fantastic across media?”
06 Monday Jul 2015
Posted in NecronomiCon 2015, Scholarly works
Available now: the NecronomiCon 2015 schedule along with the panel schedules for the Scholarship Symposium. If I were not stuck in England, the following filleted timetable would be my approx. route through the three days. Hopefully the academic papers will be collected in a book at some point, and most of the panels will get a listenable audio recording of some kind…
FRIDAY:
9am – 10:15am:
* Space and Place in the Lovecraftian milieu:
“The Sombreness of Decay: Lovecraft in Wilbraham, Mass.” Christian Haunton.
“Tentacles in the Madhouse: The Role of the Asylum in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft” Troy Rondinone.
“Architecture in the Lovecraft Archive” Connor Pitetti.
10:30am – 11:45am
* Panel: “How is art presented in Lovecraft’s fiction?”
1pm – 2:15pm
* Panel: “The Annotations of Madness”. What are the rewards of both reading and writing annotations of Lovecraft? What are the challenges?
2:30pm – 3:45pm
* Human Subjects: Lovecraft and the disciplines:
“Lovecraft and Folkloric Methodology” Ken Van Wey
“Darwin and the Deep Ones: Anthropological and Evolutionary Anxiety in Lovecraft” Jeffrey Shanks
4pm – 5:15pm
* The Language of Lovecraft:
“Terrores innombrables: Lovecraft and the Hispanic World” Juan L. Perez-de-Luque
“Divers Observations on H.P. Lovecraft’s Names and Name-Building” Steve Walker
5:30pm – 6:45pm
* Panel: Lovecraft and insanity.
SATURDAY:
9am – 10:15am
* (Re)considering the mythos:
“Reordering the Universe: H.P. Lovecraft’s Subversion of the Biblical Divine,” Jess Weise
10:30am – 11:45am
* “Beyond the Lovecraft Circle”:
“A Closet Quetzalcoatl: Intimations of HPL and Same Sex Desire in R.H. Barlow’s ‘The Wind That Is in the Grass’” Jarett Kobek
“It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came’: Shared Authorship in the Discourse Community of the Lovecraft Circle” Nicole Emmelhainz
2:30pm – 3:45pm
* Panel: Lovecraft and Ancient Rome
4:00pm – 5:15pm
* Lovecraft and the aesthetic experience:
“’The Inside’ of H.P. Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in the Visual Arts” Nathaniel Wallace
”The Suffering Intellect: HP Lovecraft’s Weird Epistemology” Daniel Holmes
SUNDAY:
9am – 10:15am
* Philosophical aspects of Lovecraft’s fiction:
“’Shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles’: H.P. Lovecraft and the Plasticity of Users and Tools” Jason Ray Carney
“H.P. Lovecraft and the Dimensions of Speculation” Anthony Camara
“H.P. Lovecraft’s Optimism” Matthew Beach
“Lovecraft, Rand and the Abyss of Opportunity” Rolf Maurer
10:30am – 11:45am
* In the dark manner of others: Lovecraft in literary context:
“Rarebit Dreamers: the Poetics of Lovecraft, Poe, and Winsor McCay” Miles Tittle
2:30pm – 3:45pm
* Panel: New England Gothic.
4:00pm – 5:00pm
* Panel: “A final chat with some of the organizers of NecronomiCon Providence and friends”
(Fly-by Web surfers please note: the above is not the full schedule, just my selection from it).
06 Monday Jul 2015
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Lovecraft Annual No.9 (2015) can now be pre-ordered on the Hippocampus Press store. Weighing in at around 240 pages.
Picture: Back cover, reproducing a Lovecraft letter that included a sketch of a heraldic shield for the K.A.T.
Letters to Marian F. Bonner
H. P. Lovecraft
Miscellaneous Impressions of H.P.L.
Marian F. Bonner
Can You Direct Me to Ely Court?: Some Notes on 66 College Street
Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.
66 College Street
David E. Schultz
The Thing (Flung Daily) on the Doorstep: Lovecraft in the Antipodean Press, 1803–2007
Brendan Whyte
Charles Baxter on Lovecraft
S. T. Joshi
Six Degrees of Lovecraft: Henry Miller
Bobby Derie
Cassie Symmes: Inadvertent Lovecraftian
David Goudsward
Clergymen among Lovecraft’s Paternal Ancestors
Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.
Lovecraft and Houellebecq: Two Against the World
Todd Spaulding
Donald A. Wollheim’s Hoax Review of the Necronomicon
Donovan K. Loucks
Reviews
05 Sunday Jul 2015
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Alan Gregory, Science Fiction Theology: Beauty and the Transformation of the Sublime, Baylor University Press, 2015.
“To the extent that science fiction has appropriated ― and reveled ― in the sublime, it has persisted in a sometimes explicit, sometimes subterranean, relationship with Christian theology. From its seventeenth-century beginnings, the sublime, with its representations of immensity, has informed the imagining of God. When science fiction critiques or reinvents religion, its writers have engaged in a literary guerrilla war with Christianity over what is truly sublime and divine.”
04 Saturday Jul 2015
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Tentacles Longer Than Night: Horror of Philosophy, Vol. 3…
Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Thacker considers the relationship between philosophy and the horror genre. But instead of taking fiction as the mere illustration of ideas, Thacker reads horror stories as if they themselves were works of philosophy, driven by a speculative urge to question human knowledge and the human-centric view of the world, ultimately leading to the limit of the human — thought undermining itself, in thought.”
03 Friday Jul 2015
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
The Gonzo History Project reviews the CD and monograph set The Curious Sea Shanties of Innsmouth, Mass.
03 Friday Jul 2015
Posted in REH, Scholarly works
* Patrick Burger (2014), The Political Unconscious in the Works of Robert E. Howard and Ernst Junger, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Publishing, 2014. (The book form of Burger’s PhD thesis for the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture, Justus-Liebig University, Germany).
* Ksenia Olkusz and Aleksander Rzyman (2011), “Titanic, Mysterious, Forgotten: cities in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s stories, Svet Kresleny Slovem, 2012. (In English. Presumably Svet Kresleny Slovem is a Polish academic journal).
* Justin Woodman (2015), “Becoming a Part of the Lurking Evil” : occultural accelerationism, Lovecraftian modernity, and the interiorization of monstrosity. (Forthcoming as part of a Punctum Books volume in 2016, Dark Glamor: Accelerationism and the Occult, edited by Ed Keller, Tim Matts and Benjamin Noys).
02 Thursday Jul 2015
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Photos of bioluminescent New Zealand caves…
“Another photograph — evidently a time-exposure taken in deep shadow — was of the mouth of a woodland cave…” — H.P. Lovecraft, “The Whisperer in Darkness”.