1. The Anthropocene as Planetary Machine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction: Political Theology on Edge 1
4. PART I • Political Theology and the Anthropocene
5. 1. The Anthropocene as Planetary Machine 19
6. 2. Anthropocenic Journeys 35
7. 3. Resisting Geopower: Political Theologies of the Anthropocene 57
8. PART II • Destruction and Suicide
9. 4. The Tradition of Destruction (Kaf ka’s Law) 79
10. 5. Suicide Notes (In Remembrance of David Buckel) 91
11. 6. Catachresis in the Margins: Notes on Theologico- Political Method 109
12. PART III • Affective and Axiomatic Interventions
13. 7. Doing Theology When Whiteness Stands Its Ground 139
14. 8. Paul between Protagoras and Rancière: “On the basis of equality, . . . that there may be equality 149
15. 9. Listening for the Power of the People: A Political Theology of Affect 165
16. PART IV Global Political Theologies
17. 10. Undressing Political Theology for an Animal- Saint Redress 183
18. 11. What Is Political about Political Islam? 214
19. PART V • From Genocide toward a Sacred Politics
20. 12. #BlackLivesMatter and Sacred Politics 237
21. 13. Genocide and the Sin of Identity 254
22. 14. Mystic S/Zong! 272
23. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 313
24. CONTRIBUTORS 315