![Julia Kristeva](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/bee_stranger-600x450.jpg)
Kristeva’s psychoanalytic approach and practice shed light on the unconscious, affective, and bodily formation(s) of religious and political discourses and systems.
![Cedric Robinson](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Capitalism-is-racist-600x450.webp)
Vega focuses on three Robinsonian concepts that are useful for political theology: racial capitalism, Black radical tradition, and African metaphysics.
![Kuan-Hsing Chen](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Theatrum-orbis-terrarum-Map-of-East-Asia-600x450.jpg)
Chen suggests that Western political theologians should incorporate more resources from local knowledge—such as popular culture, literature, films, and music—in order to notice resistance in daily life.
![Jean-Luc Marion](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Jean-Luc_Marion-1-600x450.png)
[Marion’s] central concepts and phenomenological method offer an ambiguous resource for political theology: on the one hand, he articulates a rigorous method of doing phenomenology which is trained to remain open to phenomena historically ignored and marginalized, and on the other hand, his own conclusions can veer towards a Christian triumphalism which is in danger of betraying the primary aim of his philosophical project.
![Han Byung-Chul](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/13048344414_e5986044dc_o-e1626099936696-600x450.jpg)
Psychopolitics is Han’s main contribution to political theory. It reflects Han’s rethinking of Bentham’s panopticon and Foucault’s biopower as disciplinary society transitioned into a digital achievement society that defines our contemporary neoliberal globalized world.