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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 137–153.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Stathis Gourgouris This is a meditation on the assertion by Cornelius Castoriadis that “every religion is idolatry.” Idolatry here is configured beyond the conventional understanding of the idol as a concrete object of worship which works within the logic of representation. In monotheism, even...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 February 2013
... statement in Cornelius Castoriadis—“Every religion is idolatry”—and
argues that “idolatry,” which all monotheisms seek to relegate to the space
of illusion, is what they all in fact share.
Abbas’s wide-ranging essay takes as its concern the recent schol-
arly reinvention of the figure...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 129–151.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... The conversation about art and artists in The Perils of the One can only take on its full meaning if it plays out Gourgouris's understanding of art's presentational power against art's own political theology. One might very well see the difference between critical idolatry and this other, second project...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 157–169.
Published: 01 May 2018
... from an idolatry of youth. The student is by defini-
tion young. Studying is a stage of life that exists in regard to a “later.” One
can have a good time—the so‑called uni-e xperience—and live it up until it
ends, or one can diligently prepare for the “real life” that comes only after...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 243–244.
Published: 01 May 2018
... recently of The Misinterpellated
Subject (Duke University Press, 2017). He is also the author of a trilogy of books
on Walter Benjamin: Textual Conspiracies: Walter Benjamin, Idolatry and Political
Theory (2011), Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sover-
eignty (2011...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 February 2020
... giving some precision to the specific ways in which subordinated subjects come to will nothingness rather than not will at all. In narcissism, eroticism, and mysticism, the problem of womanly nihilism turns, as it so often does with Nietzsche, on idolatry. In the spirit of Nietzsche, The Second Sex...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 135–148.
Published: 01 May 2007
... in the cold war, Graham showered invec-
tive on American idolatry and vice—its materialism, mass entertainment,
mass media, psychoanalytic therapy, university intellectuals, rebel youth,
sexual mores, and suburban families. In Peace with God (1952), he writes,
“‘The American way of life’ we like...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that such an act of divine violence “does not stop short of
annihilation. But in annihilation it also expiates” (1996: 250). Thus, not only
Korah but his sin of idolatry is erased, as if it had never existed.
To read educative power as being part of divine violence would seem
to go against much...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 169–175.
Published: 01 August 2020
... with photographs and maps, André Breton s Nadja. I refer instead to all Sebald s contemporaries that many of the Sebaldmaniacos prefer to ignore, either out of basic idolatry or simply because given the choice, they would rather read a single author and not several. This includes names and titles as diverse...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2007) 34 (3): 23–31.
Published: 01 August 2007
... way. In historical research we return
again and again to this problem of the persistence of idolatry, with its falsely
fixed reassurances seeking to comfort the mind in a world of uncertain
appearances. Appreciating ancient authority, the naturalists set their sights...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 67–123.
Published: 01 May 2011
...—is always adoration
of an object which, with all its absurdities, also contains the generic
abstract, God in general.53
He also claimed, “Since immediate knowledge is declared to be the criterion
of truth, it follows, secondly, that all superstition or idolatry is expounded...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 February 2018
...
with the regressive; and the modern would have to surrender its idolatry of
the progressive as identical with the economic. These demands index the
struggles between nationalism and republicanism in their claims to be truly
Irish—which in this context means truly free to determine what being Irish
would...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 215–230.
Published: 01 November 2021
... up to contradiction, difference, or dialectic, that is, to com(op)positionality . To transcend ideology, aesthetic partisanship, movements, groups, and positions is to be blinded by idolatry. A poetics is valuable to the degree that it is able to engender other positions in response, both...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 127–166.
Published: 01 February 2010
..., he says that the all-out war God wanted “against idolatry
and idolators” was “an extension of the struggles in the wilderness. Revo-
lutionary wars take on something of the ferocity of civil wars and political
purges, even when the enemy is not satanic and the end of days is not at
hand...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 19–73.
Published: 01 February 2001
... this? For
example, Thomas Münster and almost all the medieval heretics, who would
call, quite rightly, the Pope’s simony idolatry. And simony is idolatry, all right!
So with this example, I may now turn to political economy. I will say that I
will be doing theology of liberation, and this is not necessarily...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 151–167.
Published: 01 August 2012
...
political group, then it is idolatry to put a man up in God’s place. Right? Of
course!
At the founding moments of the American republic, there was in
England and in the United States the cultivation of close and accurate read-
ing, reading that did not jump off the page into the stratosphere...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 223–243.
Published: 01 February 2013
...
of idolatry, they might as well have been exhibiting an “improper reading
practice.” The champion of the iconophile side, John of Damascus (writing
from his monastery in the lands of the caliphate) countered by using lan-
guage similar to what Mahmood ascribes to liberal critics: that the icono-
clast...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 5–28.
Published: 01 August 2010
...
portaverit.22
that which is written: Young was Israel, and I loved him, and out of
Egypt I called my son, is indeed said of the people of Israel, who are
called out of Egypt, who are loved, who are called as if children and
young in that period after the error of idolatry...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 133–158.
Published: 01 August 2009
... from such formally accom-
plished poetry, however, her goal is not to reject contemporary society
tout ensemble. From her standpoint, the outsider-idolatry common among
Beats, spoken word artists, and other cold war–era bohemian poetry circles
was a wrong turn that deprived them...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 157–179.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to a language that can be bluntly demystifying, full of the proph- et s distrust of false prophecy and idolatry, a sense of the demonic force of empty ideological ciphers and commodified thought. Skeptical of the busi- ness of interpretation and exegesis, the production of readings, Fletcher has more and more...
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