Apocalyptic Political Theology: Hegel, Taubes and Malabou

Apocalyptic Political Theology: Hegel, Taubes and Malabou

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  • Author:Thomas Lynch
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Summary

Hegel's philosophy of religion contains an implicit political theology。 When viewed in connection with his wider work on subjectivity, history and politics, this political theology is a resource for apocalyptic thinking。 In a world of climate change, inequality, oppressive gender roles and racism, Hegel can be used to theorise the hope found in the end of that world。

Histories of apocalyptic thinking draw a line connecting the medieval prophet Joachim of Fiore and Marx。 This line passes through Hegel, who transforms the relationship between philosophy and theology by philosophically employing theological concepts to critique the world。 Jacob Taubes provides an example of this Hegelian political theology, weaving Christianity, Judaism and philosophy to develop an apocalypticism that is not invested in the world。 Taubes awaits the end of the world knowing that apocalyptic destruction is also a form of creation。 Catherine Malabou discusses this relationship between destruction and creation in terms of plasticity。 Using plasticity to reformulate apocalypticism allows for a form of apocalyptic thinking that is immanent and materialist。

Together Hegel, Taubes and Malabou provide the resources for thinking about why the world should end。 The resulting apocalyptic pessimism is not passive, but requires an active refusal of the world。

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Cyberphunkisms

Public Notes。 Many times these days do I come into comical conversations with others on the streets today, when I come across one imminent joke I have said too many times。 as i had been through about half-way through the text I started to realize it once again, does this fool not realize that the apocalypse has already happened? Malabou deserves a better understudy for yee be with no originality, merely repeating the same tropes of all academic imperialists。 Does this fool really not realize tha Public Notes。 Many times these days do I come into comical conversations with others on the streets today, when I come across one imminent joke I have said too many times。 as i had been through about half-way through the text I started to realize it once again, does this fool not realize that the apocalypse has already happened? Malabou deserves a better understudy for yee be with no originality, merely repeating the same tropes of all academic imperialists。 Does this fool really not realize that the apocalypse has already happened?The waters have risen and this book speaks of the floods of tomorrow。 Reads like an intersectionality checkbox。 hannah arendt talks about who is worth listening to in "the polis"。。。 today this question also refers to who is worth listening to within the noise of postmodernism。 Today, it is clear that the only people worth listening to are those who are willing to die for their work。 in the publish or die capitalist modernity, this question is one of, who is willing to risk their social capital for truth? Not the academic careerism that is sinking any hope for originality。 no risks。 Repeating the same public tropes, then write a book anyone could have written from 2018。 2。5* "Industrial capitalism" shapes the imagination of the world but not my academic work。 When you commit to a whole analysis of so called "political theology" but do not realize how you are participating in the same theological rituals of modern academia, repeating the same ritualistic tropes over and over。 what is original here? what is the analysis here? (This IS your "religion", which you claim you can escape from)。 "Hegel argues that although religious representations do not cognize the truth as adequately as philosophical thinking does, these religious representations are still capable of instilling and expressing the reconciliation necessary for social cohesion。’53 The external form that complicates the apprehension of truth is necessary for the cultivation of a bond that goes beyond abstract thought to a form of feeling (PR, §270; 244/418)。54 Their externalized form makes representations more accessible than philosophy’s abstract formulations, as they are ingrained in rituals and impact communities on an emotional level" "not yet" vs "it has already happened" "secularization is to secularism as decolonization is to colonialism" im gona use that which I hate right here, since it is literally "too much emotional labor to educate you" I guess I am indeed a hypocrite。 "only in this way" lmao "Only in this way can they be transformed from something imposed upon us to something determined by us。" do you think you finished the hard work of establishing of an "us" by substituting the at the very least, SHOULD BE incredibly complex, concept of "intersectionality" to step into a secularization argument? There is no such thing as secularization, because we live in an "ideological" realm regardless, which is "extremely similar" to that which you are likely to call "secularism"。 At the very least, they both lye in the same psychological categories。 As we have seen, we can see extremely "secular" religious fervor all over the globe。 Perhaps, instead of attempting to secularize the sacred, we must perhaps revel in the "epic" sacredness that already exists within our theologically-secure secular polis of togetherness [and not let capitalist rituals invade all spheres of social life?]。 Is something we can learn about religious togetherness from a utopian solarpunk-future-india, in contrast to a secular cyberpunk stilldopebutsadandlonely chinatotokyo? My point is that there are indeed other ways of life as you said, but you must realize the power of secularism to turn people into extreme capitalist-materialists。 People have completely other ways of living。 People live in different universes。 When the European came to some lands to "sign a piece of paper" saying this tree belongs to him, people would literally laugh。 this belongs to mother earth。 this belongs to gaia (now they try to commercialize gaia, just like everything else spreading neoliberal subjectivity)。 These are "religious figures," the pagan goddesses, for example, who were destroyed in the koran and who were and could have today perhaps contributed to the global creation of cultures and ways of being。 These separate ways of being are being "interconnected" through capitalism, but alas, the medium almost acting as a predestination towards the message, the same logic that ultimately seeks to extract privilege, spread forcefully across the world, cloaked in progressive bastardizations。 youtube/@cyberphunkisms 。。。more