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The following is the last of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here, the third here. This brief, but complex, reading of American Indian history under colonialist attack leads me [us] to this socio-cultural descriptive usage of eurochristian as more specific and descriptive and more accurate than the other more common possibilities. And […]
The following is the third of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. While judaeo-christian contexts are perhaps rightfully suspicious of “idolatry” here, the superimposing of such a value-system onto Peoples who enjoyed absolutely no commensurable aesthetics is the height of human injustice, no matter what violence or “criminality” may […]
The following is the second of a four-part series. The first can be found here. And we could reiterate that marxist theory is plotted [either word works for me. But I had intended it as a structural metaphor from eurochristian Land surveying: plat.] along the same temporality structure as christian eschatology, the same sort of […]
The following is the first of a four-part series. What exactly is White? Black? Or American Indian (the so-called Red race)? One’s presumed skin color designation has functioned for generations now in the eurochristian world as an appropriate signifier for one’s racial identity—even though the biological roots of race have been thoroughly debunked by biological […]
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. When John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address on January 20, 1961 exhorted Americans that they should “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty”, […]
The following is the first of a two-part series. What exactly is “Christian nationalism”? Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year, a tight little clique of prominent academics and journalists have been on a campaign to convince Americans that riding on last November’s narrow Republican success in electoral control […]
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 the same time as his book Political Theology, his most well-known text. It is translated here for the first time into English. The essay, which […]
The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal. Through the various methodist episcopal annual conference journals, it is possible to trace RM’s movement from church to church through indiana and then illinois to […]
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal. In fact, this book—with its cover—had become part of the romance narrative of christian conquest, helping to frame destruction, murder and conquest as somehow justifiable before their […]
The following is the first of a three-part series. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal. “…a great many of the inhabitants of the fronteers (sic) consider the murdering of the Indians in the highest degree meritorious.”[1] –indiana governor william henry harrison (1801) The ghastly trophy of a book […]