The Postmodern Terminal: An Experiment with Gemini
I started a Gemini capsule for short posts on theory and method. Here is what Gemini is, why I tried it, and how I publish to it.
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This Week: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare
JCRT’s online conference with the University of Denver runs October 1–3, and registration is still open.
TIDEL Is This Week
The TIDEL Summit and Showcase is October 1–2 in New York, and I’m co-leading the Racial Justice in the Digital Public Square track on Thursday afternoon.
New Essay: Theorizing the Human Sciences in the Age of Absolute Disruption
My long essay on Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm’s trilogy is out at JCRT’s Religious Theory.
New Publication: Sacralizing Dominion
Betty Hill (Lyons) and I have a new open access article in Religions on the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and white Christian nationalism.
Genealogy, Enchantment, and the War for the Mind: An Interview with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm in JCRT
A pointer to the JCRT interview with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, posted on my Gemini capsule.
If Nature Is Unjust: Xenofeminism, Blacceleration, and the Margins of Acceleration
A reading of Laboria Cuboniks, Helen Hester, Aria Dean, and McKenzie Wark on who actually absorbs the speed that accelerationism keeps celebrating.
The Company You Keep: Writing Support Resources for the Long Project
Support for the writing itself: a weekly table of other writers, a phrasebank for when the sentence will not come, and the tools your library already pays for.
Your Gym Membership and the Grafton Line: Writing Groups as Method, Not Morale
Doctoral writing is hard to sustain alone, and the fix is social: a writing table, a public daily number, and permission to make imperfect progress.
Whose Land Do You Live On: Bruce Lincoln and the Method That Makes a Claim Answerable
Method is not a section you add at the end; it is the object, the operations, and the warrants that let another scholar repeat your work or argue with it.
The Only Way Out Is Through: Accelerationism as a Wager, Not a Speed
A plain account of what accelerationism claims, where the word came from, and why its vocabulary now runs through the fight over artificial intelligence.
Down in the Swampy Lowlands: What Counts as Best Practice
Why the knowledge competent professionals carry in their hands counts as evidence, and why the evidence pyramid cannot rank it.