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...Marcelo Svirsky In Giorgio Agamben’s call to profane the sacred in the most desacralized forms, the specific mechanics through which the sacred and the profane connect and become indistinctive remains undertheorized. This article, then, aims at adding a further layer of practical articulation...

..., making, and tasting that constitute the movement, he finds the lineament of a strategic materialism that aims to make visible and is open toward the agency of the nonhuman matter, and which does so by addressing simultaneously wine’s terroir and taste, by means of profanating their taken-for-granted...

... and in the governmental economy of the church. Crucially, love is originally a universal, immanent impulse, which is captured by religion. But if religion is an apparatus of capture, then the profanation of this universal core is possible. Religion cannot fully appropriate or exhaust the virtual potentiality of faith...

... of “popular music” would serve the concepts under discussion with more efficacy. Specifically, the music of Wesley Willis executes such a political/musical act through deterritorializing refrains that are expressed directly through the profane repetitions of musical technology. © 2013 Duke University Press...

... of Benjamin's work. In this respect I seek to follow Žižek's own strategy of philosophical buggery to redeem the profane materialism, or real, of Benjamin's thought from those who would seek to relate his work to current liberal theories of delay and deferral. For Benjamin, lack of meaning, failure...

... for contemporary capitalism resides in its ability to reveal the true logic of luxury, which is that it is not really concerned with the profane world of things but is constantly seeking to move beyond the material sphere into theological or atheological space. Simply put, this means that the contemporary...

... God and your God” (John 20:17). Supporting Žižek's reading of the parable in his essay “Noli Me Tangere: On the Raising of the Body” (2008), Jean-Luc Nancy explains that Christ's refusal of Mary Magdalene's touch represents the moment of the withdrawal of the spirit from the profane world...

... . 2005 . The Time that Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Agamben Giorgio . 2007a . Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience . London : Verso . Agamben Giorgio . 2007b . Profanations . Translated...

... of our shared humanity in a kind of profane objective culture will quickly strip us of our ability to think ethically, politically, and critically. When we lose sight of our shared humanity and no longer care for the weak, the miserable, and the homeless, because we have vanished into the kind...

..., as nature became conceived as natura pura (pure nature) ( Dupré 1993 ). Nature as a consequence became a “dark mysterious unknown” that can only be known by means of other more profane forms of illumination, especially the illumination of modern technics . Thus key questions for early modern theology...

... Orthodox Church. Leiris was exalted by the sense of sacrilege, profanation. “I admire the squat, round little animal and stroke its hump, enjoying the feel of its cracks. I feel as if I had stolen fire” (161). He did realize that the purpose for which they were stolen reduced the sacredness and thus...

... that, beyond the profane nature of society's institutional and material bases, people participate in political community with all the traits of their being, from the physical to the spiritual and the religious ( Voegelin 2007: 63 ). When confronted with comprehensive dissolutions of order, leaders in politics...

..., rope, digital inkjet print, composition leaf, rope, sandpaper, decorative paper on canvas. 102 × 78 inches, 2006. I’ve manipulated loaded words and images to subvert the individual given meanings of the source materials: film publicity and production stills combined with profanities and curses...

... while harnessing religion and its ability to bring sensuousness, mysticism, and contemplation into daily life. In this short film, the main character carries out a self-sacrificing miracle that becomes his first and last action, his first time living beyond the profane realm of labor and a suicidal...

... of separating interior and exterior spaces, and differentiating the values of the sacred from the profane. The effect of cultural mobility and transnational circuits is to link different cultures and past memories together in many different and competing ways. European public culture emerges as a result...

...; and a profane technoscience of viral spheres and particles, surfaces, and projections that coexist with the contemporary modernization of the world of perception, our views on machination, our liberation, our attempted conquest of the world of the virus, and the supremacy of reason as vital...

... may be hand-printed in many different ways, so that a variety of “readings” and directional movements are suggested, having the effect of shifting emotional states and an eerie free-for-all movement. The duality of frontal and profile may also mark a congruity between good and evil, sacred and profane...

... comprehend. My still vague (and not original) sense is that in some way, Israel is the ultimate Western settler colony and that Israel and the West have found a way to profane the memory of the victims of the Holocaust to buttress the genocidal crimes of that ultimate colony against the Palestinians and its...

... dressed up. The Noah's ark on the other hand suggests a play of arrangement and deployment, of combination and perhaps more complicated relationships. We can only speculate as to the salience of its religious and moral frame, but surely children spun too their own profane animal worlds and dramas from...

.... The potential for transformation can be occasioned not in the gathering of crowds but in the solitude of a profane illumination. The overlook registers absence at two levels. An attention for space—a certain insistent look at it—demands the denial of human presence, as if individuals had to be removed from...