Playing with Kant and OOO
Carl Sachs and I shared a session at last week’s North Texas Philosophical Association meeting. Sachs gave an interesting paper about what Kant calls “the affinity of the manifold.” I’d just been gathering my notes for a post on Levi Bryant’s chapter in The Democracy of Objects on the “virtual proper being” of objects (I’ll finish... Read More
Agamben and the revival of a global political theology – from an economy of resentment to an economy of glory
“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 here. With the ongoing... Read More
Book Review: Where Mortals Dwell
The practice of reflection takes center stage at the end of every year. As a new year begins, looking back on what was and anticipating what will be has become another hallmark of the holiday season. With its connection to the holidays, the emphasis on reflection garners its own corner of the market as holiday extravagance gives way again to the routinized patterns of the next 11... Read More
All Things Shining: Maps on Fire
Mythologies (macro-scale meaning-maps) are a byproduct of religion in the same way that stories are a byproduct of life. This is fine. But our stories are not alive and our maps are not the way. It’s a mistake, I think, to think that religions are in the business of making meaning. Religions make meaning the way donut shops make donut holes: as leftovers. The trouble with... Read More
Hunger and Love – The “Logic of Late Capitalism” Unwinds into the Postmodern Apocalypse
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 some unfathomable reason Freud is... Read More
Book Symposium – Peter Rollins’s Insurrection
This week bring us a new review of Peter Rollins’s Insurrection. Jason Clark offers an extended and thoughtful interaction with Pete’s work characterized by a pastoral heart. You can read about Pete and his work at his website. Clark is one of our contributors here at churchandpomo, and you can read his bio here. Review of Peter Rollins’ Insurrection Having contributed... Read More
Book Symposium: Insurrection – Rollins’s Response to Moody
Peter Rollins has offered a response to Katharine Moody’s review of his newest book, Insurrection. If you missed Katharine’s review, you can read it here. Learn more about Pete and his work at his website. I Don’t Need To Doubt, Peter Does That For Me I have long been an admirer of Moody’s work, having heard her present papers at a number of conferences over the... Read More
Book Symposium: Peter Rollins’s Insurrection
Over the next two weeks, we’re hosting two reviews of Peter Rollins’s newest book, Insurrection. Many of you may be familiar with Pete. His work closely interacts and engages with contemporary Continental Philosophy in order to interrogate various forms of the modern church and its practices. Pete first began his work with the UK emerging church collective known as Ikon.... Read More
When a Nickel is Not Worth a Dime: Trakakis Rejoinder to Simmons
Conversation about Aaron Simmon’s God and the Other continues with this rejoinder from Nick Trakakis to Simmons’ earlier reply. Simmons’ ‘reconstructive separatism’, as a way of reconceiving the relationship between philosophy and theology, is certainly a step forward from separatist conceptions (such as Heidegger’s methodological atheism) and reconstructivist... Read More
Perhaps Marion and Plantinga are Both Right: A Response to Trakakis
This is J. Aaron Simmons's reply to N.N. Trakakis's review of God and the Other: Ethics and Politics After the Theological Turn (Indiana UP, 2011). To conclude the Review Symposium on God and the Other, Professor Trakakis will soon be offering a rejoinder to Simmons's reply. J. Aaron Simmons is Assistant Professor of Philosophy... Read More
