…so as to protect himself from the permanence of becoming dead,” she writes. Air, as Irigaray sees it, is “the element most resistant to this operation.” Air will not let…
…the cover of the book in my brother’s hands—a black and white photo of what appears to be a fascist rally with a sea of people raising their right hands—she…
…make me alive when I was a dead person. Still a practicing Muslim, I underwent nothing short of a miracle, to find myself again. I was dead, but when I…
…in the shadow of Christianity. Nietzsche might have recognized such a tendency, when he elliptically opined in The Gay Science, “After Buddha was dead people showed his shadow for centuries afterwards…
…one of the crucial motors of ecological renewal. Dead stumps are destined once again to become thriving trees. This duality of the stump as both remnant of death and cradle…
…into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, 3 and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat…
…make it our aim to please him. 10For all of us must appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so that each may receive recompense for what has been done…
…at risk of deadly infection. If this is not an exception, I’m not sure what is. Exceptional politics—the verdant soil of political theology from Weimar Germany to post 9/11 United…
…the death that occasions grief, but grievous ways of living that submerge perception of pain and loss in a sense of inevitability. In Banerjee’s words, “The dead haunt us to…
…as socially dead in relation to the rest of the world” (Red, White, and Black, 17-18). Wilderson’s use of the terms “a priori” and “contingency” to describe the “appear[ance]” of…
…suggests, is repentance, offered to the living, not the dead. This is the honest acceptance of one’s own sin that leads to a turning from the destructive habits of assigning…
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