…of nocturnal visions; he sees a great sea being driven and tossed by the four winds of heaven. As he looks, four great beasts come up out of the sea,…
…and he saw and believed; 9 for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples returned to their homes….
…ago the people of north-eastern Arnhem Land, Groote Eylandt, and the Cobourg Peninsula interacted and exchanged with the Muslim Makassans searching for trepangs (sea-slugs). Items exchanged included turtle-shell, pearls, and…
23Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; 3therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do…
…‘paradigmatic form’ of the ‘governmental machine’. This initial formulation gave me some hope that Agamben’s notorious searches for origins would at least be qualified. Privileged, if not a paradigmatic laboratory,…
The Assembly podcast is back for the new year with a new season and a new set of co-hosts, Zac Settle and Amaryah Shaye Armstrong. On part one of this…
…of the Advent season—for many, a Sunday marked by the lighting of the “Joy” candle. Of course, this week’s assigned text opens with a ringing call to “sing aloud,” “shout,”…
…Tower of London. Empires need their ravens. They depend on them, in ways both economic and emblematic. In the Hughes poem, in facing the sea, a Crow faces the searing…
In this episode of Assembly, Zac and Amaryah chat about the 2019-2020 movie season with Liam O’Donnell of the film podcast Cinepunx. They talk about Parasite, Uncut Gems, and Portrait…
12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. 13 He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory…
…of Martín’s story in the center. In the process, I’ve forced myself to have a reckoning with my own cradle Catholicism, “research / me-search” as you sometimes hear people say. …
…at once fiercely critical, ironic, contemptuous, erudite, and enlightening as he engages thinkers both living and dead on the relationship between blood and its many metaphoric and literal representations. This…