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Critical Theory for Political Theology 3.0

Benjamin, Jewish Law, and the End of Capitalism

Benjamin argues that the violence of law emerges from its governing force and therefore from its ability to bind or impose itself. To this extent, the objective of my intervention is to frame a form of normativity that not only does not entail a binding power but that prohibits it as well.

Logoclasm? Not without Logogenics

This is the aspect that worries me most: radical logoclasm as the license to violence that can establish itself as a permanent stasis, infinitely delaying the logogenic challenge of creating a new way of speaking.

The Victimhood of Kings

Psalm 2 presents the ways in which the powerful paint themselves as simultaneous victor and victim–and, more hopefully, it depicts a God who interrupts these fictions.

Critical Theory for Political Theology 3.0

Book Forum: Immaculate Misconceptions

Authors review Immaculate Misconceptions, the first major theological work on the Black Madonna.

Book Forum: The Politics of Not Speaking by Elad Lapidot

This forum reflects on Elad Lapidot’s The Politics of Not Speaking. In contrast to the common understanding of politics as a domain of speaking, this work reveals an alternative tradition where the spoken word fails, collapses, breaks (i.e., a politics of not speaking).