[Emily] Ogden intends to “accentuate the negative,” so the train of questions I have—questions that view science in a more…
Credulity, or Science as an intoxication
affect
A wind from the invisible: A reply to Spadola and Khan
I am honored and humbled by the great care and critical attention with which Naveeda Khan and Emilio Spadola have…
Material mourning in the secular sculpture garden
The memorialization of Soviet soldiers in Berlin was not simply a functional political tactic; it was an expression of national…
Tainted love
Noah Salomon begins his work with the provocative statement that the “state may have failed according to the criteria of…
Affect vs. global totality
The tricky thing about global imaginaries unlike other social imaginaries is the issue of totality. Whereas other kinds of social…
A question on affect
To write about something that is noncognitive and asignifying requires an incredible stomach for loss; whatever we write about affect…
Crosswise logic
My previous post sought to humble the principle of non-contradiction, and thus the logic of consistency it defines, finding it inadequate for…
Love and reason
Anyone who has entered the labyrinth of A Secular Age should welcome this volume as a guide. Its contributors unwind…