About this Event
Chaos Magick stands at the limits of both left and right factions of magick, as well as extremes of gender, sexual, traditional, and radical ideology. This talk will dispute the false perception of chaos magick as belonging to certain kinds of magi, celebrating the role of art, experimentation, and non-traditional magical rites currently celebrated in queer chaos. Using all modes of art and imagination, the talk will show that chaos magick is ultimately for the dissolution of self and the evolution of becoming—against the ascension of being—and can offer liberation toward radical cosmic and ecological futures.
Patricia MacCormack is a researcher who has published in the areas of continental philosophy (especially Deleuze, Guattari, Serres, Irigaray, Lyotard, Kristeva, Blanchot, Rancière), feminism, queer theory, posthuman theory, horror film, body modification, animal rights/abolitionism, cinesexuality, ethics, and death studies.
Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy. She is the author of Cinesexuality (Routledge, 2008) and Posthuman Ethics (Routledge, 2012) and the editor of The Animal Catalyst (Bloomsbury, 2014), Deleuze and the Animal (EUP, 2017), Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema (Continuum, 2008), and Ecosophical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Her newest book is The Ahuman Manifesto: Activisms for the End of the Anthropocene. She recently completed a Leverhulme Fellowship researching and developing "Death Activism" and completing the monograph Death Activism for Bloomsbury.
She is also the author of numerous journal articles and anthology chapters.She has appeared in interviews, and has interviewed a number of directors, on a variety of DVDs including the 13 DVDs of the films of Jean Rollin, the 2009 edition of Suspiria, many DVDs released by Redemption Films such as Burke and Hare (2010) and Daughter of Darkness (2010), and the complete video nasty phenomenon documentary Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide (2009).
Recently, she was interviewed on the BFI release of Maîtresse and wrote the booklet notes for the 2012 BFI Maîtresse and the 2012 BFI Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan. She continues to appear on Blu-ray release extras and booklets.Patricia has produced catalogue essays or appeared at galleries internationally, including Berlin Transmediale, art events at galleries, public libraries, and cinemas in Rotterdam, Vienna, Oxford, London, Chicago, Verona, Stockholm, Groningen, Amsterdam, Malmö, Norrköping, and Oslo.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Angel London Ec1, 73 City Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 6.13
