Anthropology of Religion Art Theory

Rapture Music – Intensity And Eschatology Within Christian Revival Movements, Part 2 (Fraser Macdonald)

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The full article is also available in the Spring 2022 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. Human No More: Human Transontology The profound affective movements that occur within religiously intensified music dislodge the coordinates of the body and […]

Philosophy

The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)

The following is the second of a two-part series.  The first installment, published on Dec. 19, 2016, can be found here.   In Writing Degree Zero, Barthes suggests disengaging from literary language by creating “a colorless writing, freed from all bondage to a pre-ordained state of language.”[1]  He says “writing at the zero degree is basically […]

Philosophy

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

The following is the first of a two-part series. 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 written in France in a long time.  As the chair of philosophy at the newly founded Centre Expérimental de Vincennes (University of […]