... Gourgouris secularization secular criticism Said poiesis religion negativity Clastres Perhaps we could acknowledge that all that one can really offer in a piece of writing, academic or otherwise, is a reading (conceived in a wider sense). Which is neither to subjectify too much the experience...

....” In a similar vein, although with different literary means, Franz Kafka ([1919] 2011) described, in his short story called In the Penal Colony , how the bodies of inmates were used as a surface on which to inscribe the law, an idea taken up later by the French anthropologist Pierre Clastres ( 1989 : 188...