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Paul and the Kingdom of God

It has become somewhat fashionable again to claim that Paul ruined the Gospel of Jesus by making it all bloody and such, for getting that Christ came proclaiming the Kingdom of God, not some atonement theory (yes, I’m referring to the Brian McLaren’s new book). Well, this afternoon I came across this and thought it […]

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Science Fiction Friday: How Will The World End?

So this summer I read A Canticle for Leibowitz, and loved it. It is a post-apocalypic novel about the monks of St. Leibowitz who preserve the “memorabilia” of the previous (our) lost civilization, destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. The novel works its way through three different time periods as new generations grapple with the lost […]

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Lacan and the Political

I just received Lacan and the Political. I am very excited, and it better be worth it b/c $35 is alot to spend on such a small book. Arrrgh that Routledge! But I can’t get to it yet. Must practise self-control and actual finish digesting Transcritique before gorging myself on another book.

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Agrarian Economics and Transcritique

I just finish a great book, and now I’m reading one that is blowing my mind. The book that I recently finished is Kojin Karatani’s Transcritique: on Kant and Marx. There is just too much to go into here. In fact I will probably spend much of the next month posting about it. His understand […]