It’s Beautiful When You Eat

Regulation of the female appetite can be traced back to the Genesis story of how the world began and was subsequently infected, temporarily ruined: “In the Genesis narrative of the fall, sin and death enter the world when a woman eats.”[1] The story of the fall, “the first story of all…

The Devil In The Mirror

10 minutes. 1,100 Shots fired. 546 injured. 59 dead. In terms of the numbers alone the Las Vegas Shooting was nightmarish on a grand scale. It was hailed as the largest mass shooting in American history (it wasn’t). It sent our country into its normal flurry of arguments about guns: who should…

With the Bible in One Hand and Rebellion in the Other

Today, we would not think of a book translation as an earth-shattering event, but in 1534, when Martin Luther translated the Bible from Greek to German, a new world was born. Prior to his translation, some Catholic thinkers, like Erasmus, wished for as many people as possible to get their…

The Ethical Dimension

In his book Laruelle: Against the Digital, Alexander Galloway puts forward an excellent chapter on Laruelle’s ethics. For Laruelle, Christ is the cornerstone of humanity through his victimhood: on the cross—not as the representation of humanity, but as a generic figure of humanity—Christ suffers as a human. He is a victim…

Posthumanism and Religion Pt 1

What is posthumanism? If you’ve been anywhere near academia the last few years, you’ve likely heard the term “posthuman.” Posthumanism covers a diverse area of thought, branching into areas of study from archeology to computer science to the humanities. Common to all posthuman discourse is a central theme: the rejection…