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Abel Aruan

Abel K. Aruan is a doctoral student in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University, and a Graduate Assistant for Political Theology Network. A former Protestant minister from Indonesia, his current research focuses on religion, sexual hegemony, and modes of exploitation in the trajectories of the Dutch East Indies.

Essays

From the Messy Middle

The planetary activities that spill out beyond the shape of any single form of life, full of uninvited faces, are what Sylvia Wynter calls the “necessary and indispensable preludes” to the emergence of our new self-awareness, to the development of new forms of life.