While phrases such as “Brazil first,” “America first,” or “Brexit is Brexit” may suggest a will to restore sovereignty around the logic of positionality—of what stands before and above—they operate in a…
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Modernity's resonances: New inquiries into the secular
Abduction as abduction
April 5, 2019
Lepselter’s text is a magisterial enactment of the thing that it is ultimately about: American weirdness.
April 5, 2019
Practices of relation
Practices of relation: Khawaja and Levene
April 2, 2019
Noreen Khawaja and Nancy Levene, authors respectively of the recently published books, The Religion of Existence and Powers of Distinction, engage one another in critical dialogue.
April 2, 2019
Modernity's resonances: New inquiries into the secular
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
March 29, 2019
Don’t you love the word “debunk”? Its cheerfully aggressive sound is inseparable from its sense. The second syllable, bunk!, seems to leap down from the Latinate first syllable, de, into a pugnacious,…
March 29, 2019
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it?
Amid the waves of the sex abuse crisis
March 27, 2019
The fact remains that vulnerability and recognition operate on time binds that are both incommensurable and disproportionate to the ways one can see law interacting with them.
March 27, 2019
Modernity's resonances: New inquiries into the secular
Modernity’s residues
March 22, 2019
How is modernity sticky—prone to leaving a residue? How are secularization theses still affecting us “as gelatinous or glutinous matters impress the sense of touch,” even though such theses would appear to…
March 22, 2019
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