SODOM & GOMORRAH: Not all is orderly in Japan. Beneath the surface, the locusts have begun stirring. There has been much talk of the relative calmness and order in Japan after the recent quake. Granted, there has been. Nobody's rioted, looted, or otherwise engaged in a general panic. Even now, as conditions continue to be difficult and the country continues to be rocked … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2011
The Christian Conception of the Locust
SODOM & GOMORRAH: Politics is theology. If the neo-Marxists Hardt and Negri have embraced the swarm metaphor and have encouraged revolutionaries to adopt it as their own, the opponents of revolution should look for the parallel theological metaphor to understand the conflict. The Four Stages of the Locust and the Political Theology of the Swarm The current wave of … [Read more...]
The Politics of Suffering
This is a guest post by Homestead: Theatre of Words. The extremes of assault, murder, rape, suicide, addiction and abuse (unto death) of children in remote Indigenous communities in Australia are so great that although it has been possible for governments to ignore them for decades, they are now inescapable. Systematic interventions have been initiated - since … [Read more...]
Tell Me Who Your Enemy Is
SODOM & GOMORRAH: Carl Schmitt once said, "Tell me who your enemy is and I'll tell you who you are." Westerners haven't and won't listen to Schmitt's wisdom when looking at the revolutions in the Middle East because the truth is uncomfortable. The Economist recently ran an article pointing out that Islam will play a greater role in Arab politics than in other countries. … [Read more...]
The Person in the Dobell Poems
This is a guest post by Homestead: Theatre of Words. All that is pressing in politics, religion and art arises from a single question: What is it to be human? There is no final answer and no possible end to asking the question. The more we know of ourselves, and the more we respond to that knowledge, the more mysterious we become. The Bible tells us within its … [Read more...]