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Stuff White People Like
Posted in capitalism, tagged stuff white people like on February 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Slavoj Zizek on Desire and Drive in Capitalism
Posted in capitalism, zizek on January 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
That is the difference between desire and drive: desire is grounded in its constitutive lack, while drive circulates around a hole, a gap in the order of being….At the immediate level of addressing individuals, capitalism, of course, interpellates them as consumers, as subjects of desire, soliciting in them ever new perverse and excessive desires (for [...]
Abstract for a Paper in Progress: The Subjectivity of the Free-Church
Posted in capitalism, theology on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My aim in this essay is to reformulate the notion of the voluntary character of the church specifically in the context of its perversion in the ideological matrix of late capitalism. In spite of the dangers of individualism, the voluntary nature of the church remains a crucial manifestation of the radically interruptive nature of the [...]
Lost in the Supermarket
Posted in capitalism, conservatism, economics on January 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Heritage Foundation is often good for a laugh, perhaps simply on account of how they manage to take themselves so seriously. In my news surfing today I came across the findings of the Heritage Foundation’s 2008 Index of Economic Freedom. I got a kick out of it, and hope you’ll enjoy it too. It’s [...]
Eugene McCarraher’s Suggestions For Resisting the Culture of Death
Posted in capitalism, quotes, tagged capitalism, consumerism, culture of death, mccarraher on December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What can Christians do to resist the dominant culture of fear, domination, death, greed, and so on? I threw out some of my Yoderian/Hauerwasian stock ideas in a comment on the last post. Here is Eugene McCarraher himself in a recent interview in The Other Journal. TOJ: You have argued that our culture in North [...]
Voltaire: The Stock Exchange as England’s True Church
Posted in capitalism, quotes on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
How’s this for simulacrum? Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together for the utility of men. Here Jew, Mohammedan and Christian deal with each other as though they were all of the same faith, and only [...]
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