The tendency toward universalizing concepts has its legacy within the foundation of Religious Studies as a discipline, which, though little known outside the field, has recently interrogated its underwritten Protestant
Author: Roger Green
One Divides Into Two – The French Connection Of Mao, May, And Today (Jonathan Fardy)
“One divides into two.” This enigmatic phrase once functioned as the ideological lynchpin of the Cultural Revolution. Maoism redrew the profile of Marxist theory. The dialectic, understood as an ideological
Capitalism And Community Health – What We Can Learn From Indigenous Communities, Part 1 (Tony Ward)
The following is the first in a two-part installment. Author’s Note: The late Joe Kincheloe draws our attention to the value that the cultures of the colonised but unbowed indigenous
Panoptical Time and Colonial Framing (Roger Green)
Anne McClintock’s prescient study, Imperial Leather (1995), concluded: Within the United States, with the vanishing of international communism as a rationale for militarism, new enemies will be found: the drug war, international terrorism,
The Pharmakon and Ayahuasca Globalization (Roger Green)
Jacques Derrida theorized in an interview on “The Rhetoric of Drugs”: The production and distribution of drugs are, of course, primarily organized by right-wing forces or regimes, by a certain
Expanding the Rhetorical, Genealogical, and New Materialist Implications of Joshua Ramey’s The Politics of Divination (Joshua Hanan)
The following is part of a series of responses to Joshua Ramey’s book, Politics of Divination. You can read our interview with Ramey here. You can read Carl Raschke’s response
Call For Submissions – Drugs And Capitalism
Drugs and spices have long been at the center of global trade, but the concept of “drug” in its modern, Western sense is particularly derived from interactions with cultural “others.”
On Enduring Borders And The Erasure Of Indigeneity, Part 3 (Roger Green)
The following is the third and final installment of Roger Green’s ongoing article. The first installment can be found here. The second can be found here. I have been posting regarding the
On Neoliberalism And The Politics Of Divination – An Interview With Joshua Ramey
The following is an interview The New Polis conducted in May 2018 with Joshua Ramey. It largely concerns his influential 2016 book, Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of
The Affects Of May 1968 – On Liberal Subjectivity And Its Discontents (Roger Green)
Elliot Neaman closes his book, Free Radicals: Agitators, Hippies, Urban Guerrillas, and Germany’s Youth Revolt of the 1960s and 1970s, stating that the battles of the late 1960s persist today,