Hi there,
This zine will begin fall 2021.
Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, however there is currently a call for the first issue due August 1, 2021.
The zine, in a broad sense, is dedicated to investigations into what is variously called The Outside, the absolute, noumena, the real, speculative thought. While sincerely open to a wide range of explorations around this topic, it is particularly interested in expanding on philosopher Quentin Meillassoux's philosophical system. Divinization* is a particular term used in Meillassoux's 'Divine Inexistence' which I take to be essentially related to the concept of a practice and ethics of absolute contingency -- or, more generally, toward a speculative materialist practice of engaging (or being engaged by) the Outside. I'm open to any manner of submission: from tales of possession to scholarly essays, photographs of spectres to Marxist-Leninist critiques, drafts, notes, cut-ups, miscellany, translations, polished works, and so on. See 'about' for more info.
The issues will appear below. As long and as soon as I have stuff to fill them with, they'll keep coming out.
To order, email me at contingentdivinizations@gmail.com: 1) issue(s), 2) address, 3) anything else.
Issues are pay-what-you-want. I'm happy to send them for free.
Submissions are always open and very happily received!
This zine will begin fall 2021.
Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, however there is currently a call for the first issue due August 1, 2021.
The zine, in a broad sense, is dedicated to investigations into what is variously called The Outside, the absolute, noumena, the real, speculative thought. While sincerely open to a wide range of explorations around this topic, it is particularly interested in expanding on philosopher Quentin Meillassoux's philosophical system. Divinization* is a particular term used in Meillassoux's 'Divine Inexistence' which I take to be essentially related to the concept of a practice and ethics of absolute contingency -- or, more generally, toward a speculative materialist practice of engaging (or being engaged by) the Outside. I'm open to any manner of submission: from tales of possession to scholarly essays, photographs of spectres to Marxist-Leninist critiques, drafts, notes, cut-ups, miscellany, translations, polished works, and so on. See 'about' for more info.
The issues will appear below. As long and as soon as I have stuff to fill them with, they'll keep coming out.
To order, email me at contingentdivinizations@gmail.com: 1) issue(s), 2) address, 3) anything else.
Issues are pay-what-you-want. I'm happy to send them for free.
Submissions are always open and very happily received!
DIV001 / tbd, fall 2021
* "The project of rational beings with reason thus consists in enduring together, from generation to generation, by the establishment of a link of fidelity between the living and the dead, in the midst of a world whose knowledge is able to maintain our waiting. It is to endure a totally different historical scale, on a scale of time in which the world assumes a different aspect than the calm indifference of laws. The authentic link of humans with God is thought as a link with the inexistent God of whom humans are the possible ancestor. This link, which makes each of us the possible forerunner of God, I call the divine. The practice of this link in the course of our lives I call the divinization or immortalization of humans; it is the very manner of becoming singular that makes us human. This divinization is not a deification of humans, because it is not a Promethean identification of humans with God. The divine is the affirmation of an uncrossable ontological divide between humans and the omnipotence of the Master, a worthless omnipotence of the revealed God whose happy abandonment inaugurates the philosophical God as justice and as gesture" (Meillassoux, The Divine Inexistence, Philosophy in the Making, p. 232).
