To speak of aesthetics is not simply to consign art to its effects on sensibility, but to open up the configurations of experience that create new modalities of perception and new forms of subjectivity. “Aesthetics provides a mode of articulation between ways of doing and making, their corresponding forms of visibility, and possible ways of […]
Month: April 2017
Forging A Path From Theory To Theology – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)
Blanton, Ward. Crockett, Clayton. Robbins, Jeffrey. Vahanian, Noëlle. An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture). New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. ISBN: 0231176236. Hardcover, paperback, e-book. We have entered a historical juncture at which it has become commonplace to offer advice to the […]
Review – A Stranger Thought For Stranger Times (Liam Burrell)
Smith, Anthony Paul. Laruelle: A Stranger Thought. Cambridge: Polity, 2016. ISBN-10: 0745671233. Hardcover, paperback, e-book. 240 pages. The reception of François Laruelle’s work in the Anglophone world is the classic case of the outsider, shunned for years after being confined to the margins of his discipline, eventually being recognized for his genius and being heralded as the […]
Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)
The following is the second half of the article. The first installment can be found here. Theopoetics II: The Difference between Technology and Logotechny Richard Kearney’s theopoetics offers an alternative to the techno-theo-logical alliance between the divine machine and the mechanical god as outlined so far. His hermeneutical reading of the scriptural text pays close attention to a different […]