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Bono’s Dream of Capitalism without Capital? Don’t You Dare Steal My Enjoyment!
Enjoy Your Capitalism while It Lasts In his early, groundbreaking workTarrying with the Negative, Slavoj ?i?ek opens up a novel, unchartered terrain of both “postmodern” thinking and the possibility...
View ArticleOn Cultural Neuroses, Primal Screams, and the Psychology of Celebrity: An...
In our fractured cultural world, celebrities have emerged as something of a common language for us to speak. The latest exploits of Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton, or the stellar performance (or...
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Master Signifiers and the Survival of Evangelicalism: An Interview with David...
In his latest book, “The End of Evangelicalism?”, pastor and professor David E. Fitch explores the possibility of evangelicalism surviving, in some form, throughout the 21st century. Fitch utilizes...
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Book Symposium: Peter Rollins’s Insurrection
Over the next two weeks, we’re hosting two reviews of Peter Rollins’s newest book, Insurrection. Many of you may be familiar with Pete. His work closely interacts and engages with contemporary...
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Book Symposium: Insurrection – Rollins’s Response to Moody
Peter Rollins has offered a response to Katharine Moody’s review of his newest book, Insurrection. If you missed Katharine’s review, you can read it here. Learn more about Pete and his work at his...
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Occupy Wall St. –Žižek’s Act or Badiou’s Event?
I was downtown talking with people at Occupy Chicago last Monday, and I met a man named Les, who I mistook for the leader of the movement. I’m sure you all know that OWS is leaderless, but I’ve always...
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Dracula, Dexter, and Dostoyevsky (Five Questions with W. Scott Poole)
W. Scott Poole, PhD, is Associate Professor of History at the College of Charleston and likes to spend his time researching our fascination with things that go bump (or ‘bomp bah bomp bah bomp’) in the...
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What Facebook Makes Us
In an interview toward the end of his life, Michel Foucault pointed out that for all the interest in power that his work had generated, he was really more interested in the subject and what effects...
View ArticleGod is a pain, or is in pain, or is pained . . . I don’t know
First of all, be sure to support the good people at Englewood Review of Books. It’s a great magazine/journal, and you should be all in the ‘in’ with them. Subscribe to their print magazine. Now,...
View ArticleToward a Material Belief
Competing Christian ideologies result from varying interpretations of a largely singular body of texts. That is, although our interpretive systems are rooted in readings of the same text, they lead us...
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