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Ada Jaarsma

Ada Jaarsma is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Royal University, in Calgary Canada where she teaches continental philosophy, critical theory, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy. Her publications include a co-edited collection Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom (University of Alberta Press, 2020) and Kierkegaard after the Genome: Science, Existence, and Belief in This World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). She is an associate editor of Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy.

Essays

Sympathy

For political theology, we might find ourselves compelled by practices that seek to connect us with our ecologies, our communities, and our relations with ourselves – in ways that are more about humility and provisionality than finding cures or solutions.

Isabelle Stengers

Isabelle Stengers, continental philosopher of science, offers pragmatic resources for animating thinking with interest and passion, affirming heresy over conformity and undercutting the all-too-common binaries of religion/science and science/fiction.

Pussy Riot and the Church

This piece is from the Political Theology Network archives originally posted on August 23, 2012.

In Memoriam:                                                                      Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas and the Journey of Theology Toward the Future

The prominent Eastern Orthodox theologian Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas of Pergamon (Ecumenical Patriarchate) passed in Athens, on February 2, 2023.

Vulnerability

From Myanmar to Mariupol, from the streets of Memphis to the waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea: resistance to violence takes many forms. So does political protest against precarity. At which point does the unavoidable vulnerability of the living condition come to expression as political agency? Can such precarious politics constitute or configure an alternative community?