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# Tagged “difference”

### [Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 3 (Melissa Conroy)](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-3-melissa-conroy/)

Melissa Conroy

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Likewise, Teresa de Lauretis argues that gender is best

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### [Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 1 (Melissa Conroy)](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-1-melissa-conroy/)

Melissa Conroy

In June 2019 the Congregation for Catholic Education released a document entitled “Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question

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### [Bushwhacking Derrida – “Perception” – “Context of Context”, “The Hunter And The Hunted” (Gary Bedford)](/religioustheory/posts/bushwhacking-derrida-perception-context-of-context-the-hunter-and-the-hunted-gary-bedford/)

Gary Bedford

After Derrida, how can philosophy continue to think critically, and for our task here, ontologically2…? Can a critique of the context of perception via its

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### [Hegemony And Techno-Rationality – Toward An Aesthetic Soteriology (Mason Davis)](/religioustheory/posts/hegemony-and-techno-rationality-toward-an-aesthetic-soteriology-mason-davis/)

Mason Davis

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

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### [The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 1 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-roger-green/)

Roger K. 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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### [Review – Raising the Vegetal Question (Hollis Phelps)](/religioustheory/posts/760/)

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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### [Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 2 (Daniel Tutt)](/religioustheory/posts/love-psychoanalysis-and-leftist-political-ontology-part-2-daniel-tutt/)

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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