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Theses on The Dark Knight
The following post was co-authored with Kelsey Craven, a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. The Dark Knight is a critique of Batman, and precisely because of this, a...
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Dan Brown the Symptom
Ross Douthat’s column on Dan Brown is getting a decent amount of attention today, with theology blogging mega-star Halden quoting it approvingly. There are some cheap shots — as Yglesias points out,...
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A new proof of the existence of God
Proofs of the existence of God have fallen on hard times. We are far from the days when Anselm could berate the Fool for his failure to see that God’s existence was inherent in the very concept of God,...
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Some Thoughts on the Politics of “Suburbs”
The place I grew up was not exactly the suburbs, more like some post-industrial small city out of a Springsteen song. Nonetheless, there’s something about Arcade Fire’s new album that I find...
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Heresy and the Godhead
I was quite taken with Laruelle’s calling forth of the heretical imperative in the Future Christ but disappointed with the actual heresies that he evoked, and this awakened me once again to the...
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The Cthulhu Cult of Capital
An apocalyptic mode has descended upon me in recent weeks. The winter is always a difficult time for me, as it is for a lot of people living this far North, but the usual doldrums have been intensified...
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Depression and OWS
I am, of course, supportive of the Occupy Wall Street sit-ins. I have had issues relating to some of it, mostly to do with my pre-existing distrust of anarchist style political organization and seeing...
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Anger’s Nonidentity / Occasion Against Universality
I recently looked back at Judith Butler’s response to her having been awarded a “prize” for writing in an especially non-commonsensical style. She observes that the recipients—or “targets,” as she...
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Scattered remarks on political theology
From one perspective, it is possible to isolate three types of “political theology.” The first is a liberal one, which seeks to reveal the unconscious theological inheritance in the hopes of purging it...
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Like a business
Surely we are all tired of the mantra that everything should be “run like a business.” Surely we all realize that the government, or the health care system, or the education system, or your family are...
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Methodist Church Trial This Week! Or: Nihilism, Homosexuality, Pennsylvania,...
In Sophocles’ Antigone our tragic heroine demonstrates to us what is regarded as one of the greatest moral principles of the Western world: when the laws of the state require one to do something...
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Young adult dystopia
It’s well known that dystopia is the hottest teen trend since vampires, but it’s more than a momentary trend — dystopia has been a staple of young adult literature and high school curricula for decades...
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Depression and OWS
I am, of course, supportive of the Occupy Wall Street sit-ins. I have had issues relating to some of it, mostly to do with my pre-existing distrust of anarchist style political organization and seeing...
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The arrested development of the “world come of age”
In his prison writings, Bonhoeffer begins to radically rethink Christianity for a world that no longer has need of religious guidance — a “world come of age” where human beings take responsibility for...
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