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Category: Critical Theory for Political Theology 3.0

Absolution without Repair

The White House report on the Smithsonian is not a correction of the historical record but a theology of it, reviving the covenant grammar that once made conquest read as providence. Against its demand for absolution without confession stands the one act that actually costs: returning the dead.

Fanon beyond Negation? Psychoanalysis vis-à-vis Palestine

Benjamin Davis responds to Zahi Zalloua’s review of his new book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt (2025).

Beginning with Negation, Or Practicing Politics and Critical Theory Otherwise

Zahi Zalloua responds to Benjamin Davis’s review of his new book, To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian (2026)

Afropessimism Meets Edward Said

Benjamin Davis reviews Zahi Zalloua’s new book, To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian (2026).

The Spirits of Extraction: An Interview with Claire Blencowe

We interviewed Claire Blencowe on her new book, Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism, and the Geology of Race.

Another Humanity, or a Plea for the Death Drive

Zahi Zalloua reviews Benjamin Davis’s new book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt (2025).

In Which Spirituality Gets a Makeover

This essay is part of the Discourses in Spirituality Round Robin.

Born Again Queer: An Interview with William Stell

An interview with William Stell regarding his new book, Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity.

Spirituality, Politics, and the Other

This essay is part of the Discourses in Spirituality Round Robin.