In the past few months I have started to ponder what increasingly strikes me as an emergent crisis of our own discourse as postmodern thinkers. What I have to say is probably going to offend a lot of people, but hopefully it will be taken as a genial offense, i.e., one that provokes soul-searching and […]
Lately I’ve been reading God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse (Seven Stories Press, 2012), not so much a dialogue but an series of interlinear monologues between Continental philosophy’s enfant terrible Slavoy Žižek and Croatian radical orthodox theologian Boris Gunjević . The title is slightly misleading, if only because without knowing what is actually in the book, one […]
“Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected,” proclaimed Jonathan Edwards. It probably seems quite strange to open what can be described as a brief meditation on political theology and the global crisis with a quote from Edwards, the “new light” of Colonial America’s First Great Awakening, but that is my task […]
It’s another gray and misty morning here in the second district of Vienna. The church bells toll to invite the sleepy-eyed revelers from the night before to churches that, except for Christmas tourists, will probably remain mostly empty. The second district is historically the Jewish district of Vienna, where Freud lived and hung out. For […]
In this interview, Carl Raschke discusses our need to create celebrities, the fantasies they fulfill, and what we can learn from our obsessions with them.
Multiple Specters Perhaps we can adapt just one more time Marx’s well-known and overadapted opening to The Communist Manifesto that a “specter is stalking” us. It was this same “specter” that Derrida back in the mid-1980s adapted in Specters of Marx to rejuvenate what by then was his already aging project of deconstruction to produce […]
It’s been said that reformations and revolutions in Christianity begin with a re-reading of Romans. That is certainly true of the Protestant Reformation with Luther’s epoch-shaking insight into the meaning of the phrase “the righteousness of God.” It is true as well of Barth’s commentary The Epistle to the Romans, which in the words of […]
The current worldwide economic crisis and financial meltdown can be understood as the inherent result of globalized consumer capitalism, a “capitalism without capital,” which in the analysis of philosopher Slavoj ?i?ek, could lead to fascism.
n this article, Carl Raschke uses the film “The Dark Knight” and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze as lenses through which to view the 2008 presidential campaign and to suggest what it might mean to approach the election in true postpartisan fashion.