Author Description

The first half of Heaven and Hell on Earth-- a meditation on living through the End of Modernity, the reign of a Mad King, and a Plague, for a start-- concerns how we make hell on earth. The second explores poetics and language more generally as ritual practices of heaven-making. Attuned to vital resonances-- in all directions-- of visionary art and poetics with mystical practice and with political activism, the book inclines throughout toward a set of emergent contemplative objects-- openings, generative nodules of complexity-- situated just beyond knowledge and cognition: what visionary art makes visible.