The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. The Eternal Return of the Same, or the Temporality of Hell “Fashion: Madam death! Madam death! -Giacomo Leopardi, “Dialogue between Fashion and Death” (…) For fashion was never anything other than the…
Anne Waldman’s A Dark Flower For The End Times (Roger Green)
In times of crisis, we turn to art. Today, Meep Records in Denver has released A Dark Flower For The End Times. This week, as many of us sit at home amid an international pandemic, we at The New Polis invite you to listen to Waldman’s words commenting on our…
The Angel Of History And The Ruins Of Paris – Walter Benjamin In France, Part 2 (Richard Rottenburg)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The awareness that they are about to make the continuum of history explode is characteristic of the revolutionary classes at the moment of their action. The great revolution introduced a new calendar. The initial day…
The Angel Of History And The Ruins Of Paris – Walter Benjamin In France, Part 1 (Richard Rottenburg)
The following is the first of a three-part series. History is like Janus; it has two faces. Whether it looks at the past or at the present, it sees the same things.» -Maxime Du Camp, Paris, vol.6, p.315 “The subject of this book is an illusion expressed by Schopenhauer in…
Radical Politics And “The Myth Of The State” (Carl Raschke)
Approximately 75 years ago, as Soviet and Allied armies were converging from opposite directions to crush the demonic dominion of Nazi Germany across Europe, two books were published that would anticipate in remarkable ways the predicament we encounter at the start of the third decade of the third millennium. The…
Ayahuasca and Transnational Religious Poetics (Roger Green)
This conference script was partially delivered at the Telos-Paul Piccone Conference in New York, February 15-16, 2020. The conference theme was: “After the Welfare State, Reconceiving Mutual Aid.” The implicit idea of Mutual Aid was advanced in Peter Kropotkin’s 1902 book, Mutual Aid–A Factor in Evolution. Kropotkin argued against social…
Call For Proposals – Migration, Mobility, And Mass Displacements – Toward a “Political Theology” Appropriate To An Age Of Global Disorder
Migration, Mobility, and Mass Displacements – Toward a “Political Theology” Appropriate to an Age of Global Disorder Where? University of Kent (Canterbury, England) When? August 27-29, 2020 Deadline for Proposals: May 1, 2020 The Department of Religious Studies and the Centre for Critical Theory at the University of Kent in…
Impeachment, Hyperpartisanship, And “The Democratic Paradox” (Carl Raschke)
The impeachment circus has now finished playing to Washington town after six months, all the time taxing its motley audience to the outer limits of their attention span. In the meantime, we came within a hair’s breadth of going to war with Iran, and the novel coronavirus has virtually shut…
100 Seconds To Doomsday, Or A Vaccination Against “Wokeness” (Patrick Soch)
As Raidió Teilifís Éireann reported on January 23, 2020, the Doomsday Clock was moved to 100 seconds until midnight. The clock’s timekeepers, all members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, adjusted the clock forward by twenty seconds, a symbolic gesture indicating the world is closer than ever to a human-caused catastrophic…
To Not Lose Sight Of The Good – Notes On The Zapatismo Ethic, Part 2 (Matt Rosen)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The article is republished from Religious Theory. The recasting of the field of three against the field of two, which is the field that is anterior to it and unilaterally determines it while being foreclosed to…