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Adam Kotsko

Adam Kotsko teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College. His research focuses on political theology, contemporary continental philosophy, and the history of Christian thought. He is author, most recently, of What is Theology? Christian Thought and Contemporary Life (forthcoming from Fordham), Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory (Edinburgh), and Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital (Stanford), as well as the translator of many of Giorgio Agamben’s works. His writings have appeared in n+1, The New Republic, The Baffler, Slate, and Boston Review, among other venues. He can be found on Twitter @adamkotsko, and he publishes professional updates at adamkotsko.com.

Essays

Silvia Federici

Federici provides a model for political theologians engaging with race, gender, and sexuality through the lens of capitalist oppression

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?