Religious Theory Posts

The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 1 (Roger Green)

In his preface to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucault asks the authors’ forgiveness for describing their book as the first book of ethics

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Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 3 (Daniel Rhodes)

The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The link to the first portion can be found here. The link to the second is here It highlights

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Review – The Greatest Trick God Ever Pulled… (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)

December 8, 2016 — By Benjamin Steele-Fisher

*Kotsko, Adam. The Prince of this World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. ISBN-10: 1503600203. Hardcover, paperback, e-book It highlights key

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Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 2 (Daniel Rhodes)

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The link to the first portion can be found here. As the source of productivity, time rendered as

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Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 1 (Daniel Rhodes)

In his long-awaited interjection into the debates on the future of Marxism after the collapse of Soviet state communism, Jacques Derrida introduces the notion

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Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 3 (Alan Jay Richard)

The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first installment can be accessed here. The second part can be found here It highlights

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Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 2 (Alan Jay Richard)

The following is the second installment of a multi-part series. The first installment can be accessed here. As Tillich argues in the second dissertation, Kant

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Review – François Laruelle’s General Theory of Victims (John Matthew Allison)

*Laruelle, François. General Theory of Victims. Translated by Jessie Hock and Alex Dubilet. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0745679617 It highlights

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Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 1 (Alan Jay Richard)

One of the challenges of liberation theology is to think the radical political and social liberation of the oppressed in a way that is truly this-worldly

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Hanging Garlands Of Flowers On The Chains That Bind – Soft Totalitarianism and Techno-Rationality (Jeff Appel)

November 2, 2016 — By editors

This article was originally a paper delivered at the conference “Reclaiming the Unconscious – On The Intersection of Psychoanalysis With the Humanities,”

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Review – Eugene Thacker’s “Cosmic Pessimism” (N.N. Trakakis)

*Thacker, Eugene. Cosmic Pessimism. Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2015. ISBN-10: 193756147X. E-book, paperback. 55 pages.* It might be worth quoting from

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Shamanism and Entheogens – Toward A Psychoanalysis Of The New “Dream Time” (Roger Green)

There is no reason why therapy rooms for psychedelic sessions must be adorned with the default Buddha icons, fractal posters, and Indian drapes It highlights

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Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 2 (Jodi Dean)

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment was published on October 10 and can be accessed here It highlights

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Review – Caputo, The Unconditional, The Folly of God (Richard M. Allen)

October 13, 2016 — By Richard M. Allen

*Caputo, John D. The Folly of God: A Theology of the Unconditional. Salem, OR: Polebridge Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 1598151711. Paperback, e-book Paperback, e-book.

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Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 1 (Jodi Dean)

An interesting strand of contemporary theory designates the specificity of capitalism with the qualifier “cognitive.” I do not write under this term, although I

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Review – Whence and Whither Posthumanism? (Bo Eberle)

October 6, 2016 — By Bo Eberle

*White, Ryan. The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0231171005 Hardcover, e-book.

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From Heathen to Sub-Human: A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism, Part 3 (Oludamini Ogunnaike)

The following is the third part of an article in three installments that initially appeared in July 2016 in Open Theology 2:2016 785-203 It highlights

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Review – Raising the Vegetal Question (Hollis Phelps)

September 29, 2016 — By Hollis Phelps

*Irigaray, Luce and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives. New York, Columbia University Press, 2016 It highlights key

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From Heathen to Sub-Human – A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism, Part 2 (Oludamini Ogunnaike)

September 27, 2016 — By editors

The following is the second part of an article in three installments that initially appeared in July 2016 in Open Theology 2:2016 785-203 It highlights

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Review – Aaron Hughes’ ‘Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity’ (Daniel Tutt)

September 22, 2016 — By Daniel Tutt

*Hughes, Aaron. Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity: An Inquiry into Disciplinary Apologetics and Self-Deception. London: Equinox Publishing, 2016 It

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From Heathen to Sub-Human – A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism, Part 1 (Oludamini Ogunnaike)

The following is the first part of an article that appeared in July 2016 in Open Theology 2:2016 785-203. It is republished here with the permission of the

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Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 2 (Daniel Tutt)

The following is the second installment of a two-part article by Daniel Tutt entitled “Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology.” It has been

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Review – Of Politics and Motion (Joshua Lawrence)

September 8, 2016 — By Joshua Lawrence

* Nail, Thomas. The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0804796580. 312 pages.* If the 21st century is indeed the century

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Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 1 (Daniel Tutt)

The following is the first installment of a two-part article by Daniel Tutt entitled “Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology.” It has been

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A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)

The following is the second installment of a lecture delivered to the faculty and students of the Research Platform on Religion and Transformation from the

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