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Experiments in Political Theology and Dialogical Blogging
The first clause in the title of this post is the subtitle of Simon Critchley‘s newest book, The Faith of the Faithless (2012). Critchley is a deep ethical thinker who had until a week ago managed to...
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Another Critchley interview…
I’m almost done with Faith of the Faithless. Critchley is really clearing up a lot of my own thinking, confirming some intuitions I’ve had and really fleshing out what had remained below the level of...
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Immanent Law, Transcendent Love, and Political Theology
I’m going to attempt to clarify my own position in relation to that of Levi Bryant’s on the issue of the potential role of religion in revolutionary politics. Bryant has toned down the diatribe,...
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Philosophy and the City
A few good posts on the polis recently. One by Adam Robbert. Another by Bill Thorn. … Re-thinking politics is something the Athenian citizens never had to do. They had the comedians and tragedians to...
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Cosmopolitical Theology: Violence, Value, and the Push for a Planetary People
This is a talk I gave back in September for my colleagues at CIIS during our annual retreat to Esalen in Big Sur, CA.
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[Final Draft] Worldly Religion in Deleuze and Whitehead: On the Possibility...
Below I’ve written a paper using the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead to construct a secular divinity. For Deleuze, this is an especially serious act of buggery on my part. Deleuze of...
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No one is in control…
…because power has left the nation-state; politics has been overcome by financial flows. -Zygmunt Bauman
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William Irwin Thompson on Planetary Transformation
Adam/Knowledge-Ecology and I interviewed the integral philosopher William Irwin Thompson a while back. He recently posted a transcription of part of that encounter on his blog. Here’s a sample: So...
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“Deleuze, Guattari, and the ‘Politics of Sorcery’” by Joshua Delpech-Ramey
Find the article in SubStance HERE. “Deleuze and Guattari’s mode of immanent critique is linked to the possibility of founding identities and collectivities which, because inherently relational and...
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10th International Whitehead Conference –“Seizing an Alternative: Towards an...
After speaking at the 9th International Whitehead Conference last fall in Krakow, Poland, I was invited to help organize a track for the 2015 IWC in Claremont, CA next summer (June 4-7). The 2015...
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2015 Whitehead Conference Poster –“Seizing an Alternative: Towards an...
More about the conference, and my track, can be found HERE and HERE.
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War of the Worlds: Cosmos and Polis in the Pluriverse
Notes for an upcoming talk… What is reality? Seasoned metaphysicians will be quick to point out that the phrasing of this question already assumes too much. The copula “is,” for example, implies that...
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“William James: Politics in the Pluriverse” by Kennan Ferguson
I’ve just finished Ferguson’s book on James’ pluralist contribution to political theory. I can’t recommend it highly enough to those interested in the political implications of ontological pluralism....
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Hillary v. Bernie and the Future of American Democracy
I’ve been meaning to write about the primaries for a while now, but administrative duties at CIIS, finishing my dissertation and other writing projects, and online teaching has taken up all my time and...
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My first course, Spring 2017 at CIIS
I’ll be teaching my first graduate level course next Spring at CIIS. I have a lot of reading and research to do between now and then.Please do add to my list of books or articles if you have resources...
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Democratic Socialism or Corporate Cronyism
It’s mid-April, and the 74-year-old democratic socialist senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders is not only still in the race for the Democratic nomination, he is in the midst of a spring surge to...
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CIIS Commencement Speech 5/22
Thank you, President Subbiondo. Thanks also to our Academic Vice President Judie Wexler, to our honorary degree recipients Angela Davis and Josef Brinckmann, and to all CIIS faculty and staff for the...
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