...Mohamad Amer Meziane Abstract This essay examines the effects of the critique of religion on the critique of capital and how the former confines the latter. It asks: What remains of the concepts of alienation or fetishism if they all stem from an anthropology of religion that seems to be criticized...

...Ananda Abeysekara Abstract Critiques of the concept of “Protestant Buddhism” claim to tell a different story about the relation between religion and modernity (“Protestantism”) in South Asia. They seek to reconstruct the temporal relation between the past and the present, contesting postcolonial...

... consumer power that they had not had before. Moreover, I discovered Albert Hirschman’s spectacular The Passions and the Interests , which showed how the notion of self-interest—so decried by communitarian critiques—had been a moral response to the war of religions, thus presenting capitalism as a new...

... critique of abstraction in light of tashkīk , systematic ambiguity or modulation. The essay argues that Ṣadrā’s influence can make generative contributions to Deleuzean thought in terms of process realism, tashkīk as disjunctive synthesis, immanent causality, singularity, and an optimistic, world-oriented...

... Russian) with V. Akudovich, Minsk, November 2009. 81. For more discussion of this positionality, see Spivak , Critique of Postcolonial Reason , 49. 82. Rakitski , “Prachytats’ Mickiewicza pa-belarusku,” 458 [Bel.]. 83. “Adradzhenne i narod,” 14 [Bel.]. 84. Akudovich...

... artist, however, gazes not upon the Form itself, but upon its already rendered copy. To reproach him for this, and to derive from the re- proach a critique of the imitative arts, necessarily implies the premise that imitation is in some way negative. Plato, it is true, uses the ex- pressions "to...

... Duncan’s embrace of kitsch lies in the elaboration of an explicitly anticapitalist left-wing poetics and politics that would avoid some of the pitfalls of rationalist critique, or the impasses of a political problematic based on “false consciousness.” Rather, Duncan’s writing can be seen as a fascinating...

...Talal Asad Copyright © 2009 Qui Parle 2009 The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam Talal Asad For three decades, Talal Asad’s work on the question of religion, and on the entanglements of this question with the sensibilities of modern life, has steadily overturned dominant...

..., “life is already lost . . . already on the other side.” 1 This queer place of subjectivity yields “the point of view from which one can embrace the whole of one’s existence as if from outside,” a perspectival position that authorizes a radical critique of social inequalities and the violence of the...

.... Marx's famous analysis of the mysterious character of the commodity-form is precisely a critique of the idea of Christian incarnation as it oper- ates in the practices of commodity-fetishism.8 For Marx, "Christi- anity with its religious cult of man in the abstract...

... been too hastily dismissed as a homogeneous evolutionary vision. Meeting previous critiques, I angle the potential of Bergsonian intuition toward the aesthetic and political imbroglios of evolu- tionary science’s history and counteract the unquestioned antipa- thies that have long blinded...

...George Ciccariello-Maher TOWARD A RACIAL GEOGRAPHY OF CARACAS: NEOLIBERAL URBANISM AND THE FEAR OF PENETRATION George Ciccariello-Maher As I begin this essay, it is the twelfth of October, the "Day of Discovery," which marks the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the "New...

... origin of being within the ecstatic movement of existence, yet it cannot “know” or appropriate the origin). This idea of speculative mysticism has much in common both with Heidegger’s critique of the objectivism of modern meta- physics, and with his concomitant critique of...

...William S. Allen Abstract Blanchot’s readings of Lautréamont are among the most important writings on this challenging author, and they are also crucial for the development of his own thinking, but they have never been discussed in depth. This essay surveys the whole range of Blanchot’s writings on...

... coordinate different registers of existence, the issue of exactly what dust is never completely disappears—not to mention the larger question of what dust reveals about what it means for anything to be. In one of his early texts on religion, G. W. F. Hegel maintains that the primacy of form over material...

... local site of the public hotspot in the exhibition space with the global network of the Tor community. Autonomy Cube is arguably an instance not so much of institutional critique as, according to the artist, of “institutional enhancement.” 3 In interviews and statements Paglen and Appelbaum...

... expressions spin in quite the opposite. At the same time, it is not as if those of us who work with gender and sexuality in Black diaspora studies are innocent of this same kind of synchronicity: we ourselves sometimes call for unity yet forget certain groups or, very much like the colleagues we critique...

..., we must deal in a different way with some themes common to the philosophy currently in vogue in Europe and the United States. Today political philosophy has unexpectedly taken up a subject that had been ignored since the Enlightenment. Kant himself, in Religion within the Limits of Pure...

... REVIEW ESSAY wink and a nod the famous critique of politics found in The German Ideology, that all struggles within the State . . . are merely the illu- sory forms in which the real struggles of the different classes are fought out among one another Today, in the...

... their abstract monetary value; and a veiled theological critique of the Cartesian program that the wonders of the living organism, the creative evo- lution of life-forms, and the gift of man’s moral freedom could be understood in purely mechanical terms without reference to special vital forces...