Subjects of the Machine and the Spirit of Revolt: A Review of Paul Kingsnorth’s Latest Book
Against the Machine is not just a complaint about technological fetishism and overreach. The Machine is also within us.
The Twin Poles of Advent
Hope, love, joy, and peace are ours in grappling with the realities of death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
A Death Worth Hallowing
Spooky Season and the waning of the year is a regularly scheduled encounter with death, and I draw tremendous comfort from it.
Apostle and the Machinery of Religion: What Makes It Work?
Does religion guarantee us deliverance out of the predicaments of being alive? Is it a machine we operate to tame and exploit transcendent reality?
Midnight ’til One Belongs to the Dead: Hauntology in The Fog
Ghosts are signifiers of something that has gone wrong: a secret that has not been brought to light, an injustice that has not been righted.
Who Killed the World? Hope That Is Not a Mistake in Mad Max: Fury Road
The desolate future envisioned in the Mad Max films lays bare the emptiness which always threatens the human effort to build something meaningful.
Can Watching Horror Help Us to Neither Deny Nor Domesticate the Darkness?
Horror is a witness to the monstrous we wish we could explain away but cannot.
The Dead Do Not Forget: Advent as the Practice of Penitence
Advent was historically preoccupied with the second coming of Christ and focused on the last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
“Am I Not Free?” The Freedom to Forgo Our Rights for the Sake of Love
A “freedom” which floats above social context and concrete relational bonds is no freedom at all.
