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What Egypt Really Means for the Theory of Religion
Carl A. Raschke interprets Egypt's 2011 uprising through May 1968, youth politics, Derrida, and a universalist religion without renewed religiosity in public.
Zombie Aesthetics, Part 1: Vituperation
Colbey Emmerson Reid reads zombie cinema as an allegory of democracy, citizenship, agency, fascism, and the political limits of the Western action hero.
Originary Grammar, Part 3
Adam Katz extends originary grammar through Eric Gans, metaphysics, imperatives, global law, and the need for signs capable of deferring political violence.
Bernie Madoff University
Victor Taylor satirizes the corporate university through Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, exposing a higher education model built on appearance, debt, and profit.
Indicative Culture
Adam Katz explores the indicative sentence, authority, law, and counterinsurgency to argue that institutions must learn from situated habits and judgment.
Obama’s Cairo Speech: “New Beginning,” New Enlightenment, or Old Aporia?
Carl A. Raschke analyzes Obama's Cairo speech as a bid for renewed relations between Islam and the West, testing its promise against Enlightenment aporias.
Specter and Event
Carl A. Raschke reflects on 2009 as a year of spectral eventfulness, reading Derrida and Nietzsche against political repetition, nihilism, and false dawns.
Habit and Errors and Composition
Adam Katz uses Gertrude Stein to connect habit, error, attention, composition, reciprocity, and political exchange in an account of how novelty emerges.
Born Again
Colbey Emmerson Reid reads The Descent as a feminist resurrection narrative in which trauma, monstrosity, repetition, and rebirth unsettle Christian allegory.
Originary Grammar, Part 2
Adam Katz develops originary grammar through sentence forms, metaphysics, imperatives, and the linguistic ordering that continually defers social violence.
“Post-America”: An Exchange
David Hale and Carl A. Raschke exchange views on American decline, debt, empire, irony, and the uncertain line between the audacity and arrogance of hope.
Labels Without Scars: Mystifying Amnesia in Today’s Presidential Politics
Wendy Felese examines the rhetoric surrounding Barack Obama's presidency, asking whether hopeful political labels conceal historical scars and uncertainty.
Dis-Enclosure and the Inaugural Moment
Carl A. Raschke reads Obama's inauguration beside Jean-Luc Nancy's Dis-Enclosure, asking how event, faith, Christianity, and the future resist philosophy.
Originary Grammar
Adam Katz introduces originary grammar through Eric Gans, René Girard, language, mimetic crisis, and the emergence of signs that defer collective violence.
The Business of the Real and the Unreality of Business
Victor Taylor examines corporate failure and the 2008 economic crisis, arguing that business models conceal the Real they claim to master through metrics.
Hot Abstinence
Colbey Emmerson Reid reads Twilight as a Gothic theology of erotic abstinence, sacrifice, subjectivity, and the unexpectedly sensual force of Puritanism.
Multiplying Homonyms
Artur Sebastian Rosman uses homonymy to assess a JCRT debate between Clayton Crockett and Agata Bielik-Robson over theology and the postmodern sublime.
A New Project for Correlational/Continental Theology (Again)
Wilson Dickinson proposes a renewed correlational and Continental theology that can connect public events, experience, mysticism, and constructive thought.
The Morning After—with a Nod to Vince Lombardi
Carl A. Raschke reflects on Barack Obama's election, warning that political euphoria must give way to shared responsibility before the next global crisis.
Apocalypse Now? The Subaltern Has Spoken
Writing before the 2008 election, Carl A. Raschke considers Obama, globalization, identity politics, and whether an apparent apocalypse signals a new beginning.
Catholics vs. the Catholic Hierarchy in the 2008 Election
Victor Taylor examines Catholic voters in Pennsylvania, abortion politics, and the Church hierarchy's influence on conscience in the 2008 presidential election.
Laclau and Democracy in Light of the Current Crisis
Daniel Douglas Miller uses Ernesto Laclau's account of democracy and populism to argue that the financial crisis demands political action, not passive hope.
The Hinge of History, or Žižek’s “New Politics”
Carl A. Raschke asks whether the 2008 financial crash marks a hinge of history, testing Žižek's call for a new politics against consumer capitalism today.
“Competing in Goodness”: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Testimony at Guantanamo
Faisal Devji analyzes Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's Guantanamo testimony, exploring militant pluralism, legal exception, guilt, war, and competing in goodness.
Crisis: A Liberation from Capitalism?
Creston Davis interprets the 2008 financial collapse through Hegel and Badiou, arguing that crisis exposes labor's power and capitalism's hidden dependence.
Hyperreality
Carl A. Raschke reads the 2008 financial crisis through Baudrillard, Mark C. Taylor, and Derrida, asking what hyperreality means for faith and democracy.
The JCRT Now Has a Blog
JCRT announces JCRT Live, a blog for editors, contributors, and invited participants to discuss current questions in cultural and religious theory online.