If politics names the power relations regarding the polis, in their deliberative form, then ‘the political’ names the environment in which those power relations operate. From the outset of Western
Author: Roger Green
Fyre Fest And Incels – Levinas And The Problem With Liberalism (Michael Laminack)
In his 1934 essay “Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism,” Emmanuel Levinas evaluates the social and political realities that led to massive support for the Third Reich. What is fascinating
Left And Right Is Really Up And Down (Wendy Felese)
Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ condescending dismissal of congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (during an interview with Fox News), went largely unnoticed during a week dominated by the latest rancorous national debate. It
Meditations On Aesthetics In The Wake Of The 2019 State Of The Union Address (Roger K. Green)
It is easy to debate the usefulness of commenting on the 2019 State of the Union Address. In a media sphere mostly concerned with who said what in a fleeting
“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)
The New Polis is honored to present Dr. Tinker’s follow-up piece to “Redskin, Tanned Hide: A Book of Christian History Bound in the Flayed Skin of an American Indian: The Colonial
Text, Body, and the Ethics of Raymond Federman’s Spectator (Roger Green)
In this post, I argue that postmodern writer, Raymond Federman’s reluctant commitment to text, his necessity to return to and interrupt narrative and to make text, emphasizing its artificial nature,
The Pataphysics of Pharmakoi (Roger Green)
Yesterday, an article by Josh Katz and Margot Sanger-Katz in The New York Times drew attention once again to an opioid abuse epidemic in the United States. As they write, the 2017
Willie Jennings And Palestinian Theologies Of Liberation – Naming The Missing Piece (Katherine Rainger)
Willie James Jennings, author of the award-winning The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, argues that issues of race and the Christian faith are so entangled in American
The Deep Framing By Totality (Roger Green)
A variety of competing descriptions of ‘whiteness’ making up racist retreats to Romantic imaginaries of Anglo-Saxon identity go at least as far back as Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had imagined himself
A Reply To Derrida’s Post Card (Jonathan Fardy)
This post is, in a sense, a reply to Derrida’s Post Card. I want to make an attempt at a non-philosophical reply in the sense that François Laruelle has given