"In this speculative venture avatars and scenarios proliferate and
spin out as redundant probe-heads from the central processing
machine that is Capital. Indeed, such a book as this accelerates
the process. Here one finds characters composed of advertising
refrains and slogans, cruising the mediascape, guided by a
telematics standardization that manifests itself in brands and
slogans, fast-food outlets and jousting tournaments. This book
speaks of consumers and commodities that move at a pace which
outruns the regulative speeds of the market, but that also move
slower. Is this the future of Capital? If it is, then it is also
its past. A court sub specie aeterni." Simon O'Sullivan
Neomedievalisms are cultural practices that breathe a bouquet of
premoderns as permanent rehearsals of coming events. Where
medievalists may be prone to police the post-medieval weald for
'inauthentic' medievalisms, neomedievalists embrace the
articulation and mobilisation of metahistorical 'anachronisms'. To
the medievalist, medievalisms provide powerful indexes that reveal
how post-medieval societies have variously imagined 'little middle
ages' to suit modern agendas. To the neomedievalist, medievalisms
are theory-fictions that facilitate ludic speculation on non-modern
futurities. While neomedievalist theories have emerged in a variety
of fields since the early 1970s - notably in cultural studies of
medievalisms, international relations and literary theory - there
are few applications that synthesise and put the methodologies of
these diverse fields into practice. thN Lng folk 2go applies this
extant scholarship as an extradisciplinary practice, dramatising
the neomedieval turn in (quasi)objects, persons, work, education,
travel, food, ethnicity, media, art, hypereconomics and technology.
This speculative journey is ghost authored by a trinity of
neomedievalist narrators - Journeyman, Anchorite and Host - each
relic-ing their own curious neomedieval futurities. Drawing its
heterogeneous approaches from studies in medievalisms,
international relations, literary theory, actor-network theory,
anthropology, hypereconomics, art history, aesthetics, ecology,
cultural theory, cultural geography, ambience, speculative realism
and future studies - thN Lng folk 2go is both an investigation of
and a benefaction to a murmuration of neomedievalisms. thN lng flk
2go iz an boke in fif bokes: I. L'Amerique Souterraine Dis earste
dale speketh iter pro peregrinis ad metro. Dis boc iz todealet in
fif leasse bokes ov journie-men Gambini's 2 doze hu Lng 2 g0. Iz
earste riwle ant ov swucche thinges az duble homo-feaste, drunch
ant werke, ant iz ov othre (dug-heids) ant quazi-thinges. II.
Imperium et Sacerdotium Dis other dale speketh ov nuncii ant
procuratores, ov assemblies ant crusades. III. The Journeyman's
Guide to Anchoritism Dis thridde dale iz'ov translatione corporis.
Dis dale iz ov customz, liturgica, blak noiz, ant self-discipline
ov d post-homo man-thinge. Dis boc iz todealet in thri leasse bokes
ov ancre's wittes. IV. xyzzy: Contemporary Art Before and After
Britain Dis feorthe dale iz'ov beatific ant ov swucche thinges az
doth come from the eye's arrows. Ad te levavi. V. When
Transfiguration Became Commonplace Dis fifte dale speketh ov host.
Dis dale is al of the thridde riwle, wen translatione bcAM
hyper-economicus.
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