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Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2022. Hardback. 360 pages [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/george-batailles-on-the-limits-of-the-useful/) ![“Progressive Neoliberalism” – Symbolic Capitalism And The Global Reproduction Of The “Precariat” (Interview With Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/07/img_6855.webp) ### [“Progressive Neoliberalism” – Symbolic Capitalism And The Global Reproduction Of The “Precariat” (Interview With Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/progressive-neoliberalism-symbolic-capitalism-and-the-global-reproduction-of-the-precariat-interview-with-carl-raschke/) July 5, 2020 — By Carl A. Raschke *Raschke, Carl. Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019 It highlights key arguments [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/progressive-neoliberalism-symbolic-capitalism-and-the-global-reproduction-of-the-precariat-interview-with-carl-raschke/) ![Review – Indebted to Asceticism (Hollis Phelps)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/11/elettra-stimilli.webp) ### [Review – Indebted to Asceticism (Hollis Phelps)](/religioustheory/posts/review-indebted-to-asceticism-hollis-phelps/) November 14, 2017 — By Hollis Phelps Stimilli, Elettra. **The Debt of the Living: Ascesis and Capitalism. Translated by Arianna Bove. Albany: SUNY Press, 2017. ISBN 9781438464152 It highlights [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/review-indebted-to-asceticism-hollis-phelps/) ![The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 3 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/07/blake_jacobsladder.webp) ### [The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 3 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-kingdom-the-power-the-glory-and-the-tawdry-media-and-the-undoing-of-the-demos-part-3-carl-raschke/) July 19, 2017 — By Carl A. Raschke This article is the last of three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-kingdom-the-power-the-glory-and-the-tawdry-media-and-the-undoing-of-the-demos-part-3-carl-raschke/) ![The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/07/c3991bb2cfd9febacdde5120616f152a.webp) ### [The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-kingdom-the-power-the-glory-and-the-tawdry-media-and-the-undoing-of-the-demos-part-2-carl-raschke/) July 12, 2017 — By Carl A. Raschke This article is the second of three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-kingdom-the-power-the-glory-and-the-tawdry-media-and-the-undoing-of-the-demos-part-2-carl-raschke/) ![The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/selfport.webp) ### [The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-part-2-roger-green/) December 26, 2016 — By Roger K. 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-part-2-roger-green/) ![Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 1 (Jodi Dean)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/10/robotics.webp) ### [Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 1 (Jodi Dean)](/religioustheory/posts/collective-desire-and-the-pathology-of-the-individual-jodi-dean/) October 10, 2016 — By 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/collective-desire-and-the-pathology-of-the-individual-jodi-dean/) ![Review – A Darker, Grittier Deleuze (Timothy Snediker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/07/gilles-deleuze-dr.webp) ### [Review – A Darker, Grittier Deleuze (Timothy Snediker)](/religioustheory/posts/review-a-darker-grittier-deleuze/) August 4, 2016 — By Timothy Snediker *Culp, Andrew. Dark Deleuze (Forerunners: Ideas First). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. ISBN 10: 1517901332 Paperback, e-book It highlights [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/review-a-darker-grittier-deleuze/) ![Theodicy of Money – The Scene and Subject of Forgiveness (Timothy Snediker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/05/mammon_and_his_slave.webp) ### [Theodicy of Money – The Scene and Subject of Forgiveness (Timothy Snediker)](/religioustheory/posts/theodicy-of-money-the-scene-and-subject-of-forgiveness/) May 18, 2016 — By Timothy Snediker Today the question of debt forgiveness has become an eminently practical, not to mention political, question. From sovereign debt crises in Greece, Spain [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/theodicy-of-money-the-scene-and-subject-of-forgiveness/) ![Review – Badiou and Gauchet on Capitalism and Democracy](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/05/badiou-photo-thumb-large.webp) ### [Review – Badiou and Gauchet on Capitalism and Democracy](/religioustheory/posts/review-badiou-and-gauchet-on-capitalism-and-democracy/) May 12, 2016 — By editors *Badiou, Alain and Gauchet, Marcel. What Is To Be Done?: A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy. Translated by Susan Spitzer [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/review-badiou-and-gauchet-on-capitalism-and-democracy/) ![The Business of the Real and the Unreality of Business](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [The Business of the Real and the Unreality of Business](/religioustheory/live/the-business-of-the-real-and-the-unreality-of-business/) December 27, 2008 — By Victor E. Taylor Victor Taylor examines corporate failure and the 2008 economic crisis, arguing that business models conceal the Real they claim to master through metrics. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/the-business-of-the-real-and-the-unreality-of-business/) ![The Hinge of History, or Žižek’s “New Politics”](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [The Hinge of History, or Žižek’s “New Politics”](/religioustheory/live/the-hinge-of-history-or-zizek-s-new-politics/) October 17, 2008 — By Carl A. Raschke 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. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/the-hinge-of-history-or-zizek-s-new-politics/) ![Crisis: A Liberation from Capitalism?](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Crisis: A Liberation from Capitalism?](/religioustheory/live/crisis-a-liberation-from-capitalism/) October 4, 2008 — By Creston Davis Creston Davis interprets the 2008 financial collapse through Hegel and Badiou, arguing that crisis exposes labor's power and capitalism's hidden dependence. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/crisis-a-liberation-from-capitalism/) ![Hyperreality](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Hyperreality](/religioustheory/live/hyperreality/) September 20, 2008 — By Carl A. Raschke Carl A. Raschke reads the 2008 financial crisis through Baudrillard, Mark C. Taylor, and Derrida, asking what hyperreality means for faith and democracy. 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