“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Helvete, Journal of Black Metal Theory



My friend the ever inventive Ben Woodard and Zachary Price have teamed up with Aspasia Stephanou to create Helvete, a journal of black metal theory.

Many observations, in random order:

• Scholars of all kinds, not simply the professors, are now in the business of creating top notch journals, without the burden of receiving imprimaturs from bureaucratic functionaries

• Black metal is seriously powerful and I recommend to anyone to listen to Burzum's Filosofem, as soon as possible. For instance.

• This work is deeply congruent with the ecological era I'm now calling the time of hyperobjects. No wonder the recent London symposium was called Melancology.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi Tim, the link to Helvete is incorrect: it goes to some other site for a previous post.

Timothy Morton said...

Thank you sir! Fixed.

zareen said...

Thanks for the shout-out here!