Editors note: Carl Schmitt’s “Die Politische Theorie des Mythus” (“The Political Theory of Myth”) , published in 1923, is one of his most important early essays and came out about
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CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS – A Conversation With Arthur Bradley On Sovereignty, Part 1
The following is the first part of a transcript of one of our ongoing “Critical Conversations” with distinguished British political philosopher Arthur Bradley. The conversation took place on March 10,
The State of Exception As Apocalyptic Desire – Overcoming A Persecuting Society, Part 4 (Roger Green)
The following is the fourth of a multi-part series. The first can be found here, the second here, the third here. I have been arguing in previous posts, following William
Neoliberalism, Populism, And Modern Transforms of Sovereignty – From The Doctrine of Discovery To The Capitalist “Thaumaturgy”, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Sovereignty and the Modern Doctrine of Dominion The advent of a brave, new world bifurcated
A Gloss On ‘Political Theology’ And The Psychedelic Nature of Recent Political Unrest (Roger Green)
What follows updates some excerpts from my book, A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics (Palgrave 2019). Related excerpts may also be found with respect to Walter Benjamin in The Journal For
The Meaning Of January 6, 2021 – Editorial Response I (Roger Green)
The following is the first of a series of responses on the part of the editorial staff of The New Polis to the events of January 6, 2021. In the
The Politics Of Pause, Struggling Over Speed For Better Futures (Critical Conversations 3)
The following is the video and transcript of the third “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by The New Polis and Whitestone Publications and involving international scholars. The
Gnosticism And The Contemporary Production Of Race (Jacob Vangeest)
“Blackness is not only that which relates to the constitutive outside of any social bond—whether that outside be excluded or included is secondary—but also that which relates to the undoing
Rescuing Political Theology From Its Passionate Partisans (Carl Raschke)
It is high time, I fear, for someone to call “bovine body waste” on the seemingly inexhaustible creativity in the current overuse and abuse of the phrase “political theology.” Ever
Politics And Its Double – Deleuze And Political Ontology, Part 2 (Borna Radnik)
The following is the second of a four-part series. The first can be found here. Politics and the Political There is nothing political about ontology if by “ontology” we simply