So I just uploaded my essay “The Imagination of Clive Barker” (1995) to academia.edu, and I realize that it might be my first speculative realism essay. At the time I was teaching classes on horror and cultural materialism, and my argument was that horror was a way of doing philosophy when normative philosophical discourses failed in some sense to talk about the real. Clive Barker's work, legible the as a kind of body art (“the body” was big in those days), is even more legible now as speculative realism.
One of my prized possessions is the copy Clive signed and sent me. It was for an exhibition of his work.
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