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The following article is the third of a three-part-series. The first installment can be found here, the second here. The full article can be found in The New Polis Journal. A New Science of the Word? Or, Grammatology, Again? Emerging out of the failure of the ceremony-finding, the necessity of a “new science of the […]
The following article is the second of a three-part-series. The first installment can be found here. The full article can be found in The New Polis Journal. Wynter’s Engagement with Derrida: “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” In “The Ceremony Must Be Found”, Wynter’s use of the imperative – […]
The following article consists in a three-part-series. The full article can be found in The New Polis Journal. “The density of History determines none of my acts”-Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks[1] “unheard-of thoughts are required, thoughts that are sought across the memory of old signs” -Jacques Derrida, Voice and Phenomenon[2] “Human beings are magical”- […]
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Derrida also posits the opposite of media-friendly religion, that of the ‘Rushdie affair’, whereby Iranian novelist Salman Rushdie had a fatwa issued against him, calling for his assassination for his controversial novel The Satanic Verses. The fatwa was issued from […]
The following is the first of a two-part series. The concept of globalization began and runs in tandem with the emerging global culture of free market capitalism. The coinage and use of ‘globalization’ was at first a concept developed by Harvard economist Theodore Levitt during the 1970’s. Levitt developed the idea of the “globalization of […]
The following is the first of a four-part series on the current upsurge in antiracist activism in America as well as its intellectual roots, historical context, and implications. Since the killing of George Floyd untold white people supposedly have all of a sudden discovered something known as “racism.” Furthermore, this discovery has gone hand […]
In this new series of Literary Conversations, New Polis general editor Roger Green engages with contemporary writers on aesthetic and thematic trends in their work. The initial conversation is posted above, followed by Roger’s reflections on the conversation below the transcript. Steven Dunn is the author of the novels Potted Meat (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2016) and […]
The following is the first of a two-part series. It is republished from Religious Theory on May 1, 2020. The Death of God theological movement of the mid-twentieth century serves as a productive starting place to consider spiritual violence in our time, or the forceful displacement of human relations in religious belief both as individuals […]
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 first, The Dialectic of Enlightenment […]
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The article was recently presented at the international meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Forschung (German Society for Phenomenological Research) in Vienna. The conference theme was “Fact, Facticity, and Reality”, or how philosophy can understand new media culture. Few scholars […]