Archive for the ‘ apocalypse ’ Category
The critical dogma that says, “the shoah is unrepresentable,” immortalized in the word “holocaust”–everything burns up–produces a kind of cheap mysticism that doesn’t understand its theological origins. One intention behind this dogma is to produce an untouchable event that corresponds to the mantra “never forget.” Behind this there are several hazy moral impulses. What gets [ READ MORE ]
One way in which religion is more rational than science. It says simply “because” and offers no further reasons for submitting to its code. The arbitrariness of the content of God’s will coincides with a historical view. These habits, customs, names, and — even — reasons have no other ground than the demand to submit [ READ MORE ]
Whoever next writes a dictionary of critical theory should remember to worry a little in print about distance, and how it is used. Marcel Gauchet writes convincingly about it. Religion is, for Gauchet, that which places its founding moment far away, so that no one will realize it was originally a decision and get the [ READ MORE ]
I quote this title not in order to satirize it, but in order to explain an error of excess that this blog is prone to, i am, you are, we are prone to, in a bid for celebrity through anonymity. While remaining nameless it is far too easy to call toward a mysterious to-come and, [ READ MORE ]
