Freestyle Christianity

In this episode of The Catacombic Machine, Preston Price and Matt Baker speak with Clayton Crockett,  Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Arkansas, and author of a number of books, most recently Derrida after the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism. He is a co-editor of the book series “Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture” for Columbia University Press.  Reading: Kathryn Higgins Vast, glowing vault with the swarm of black stars pushing them- selves out and away: on to a ram’s silicified forehead I brand this image, between the horns, in which, in the song of the whorls, the marrow of melted heart-oceans swells. In- to what does he not charge? The world is gone, I must carry you. In Derrida’s late seminar The Beast and the Sovereign, the suggestion is made that ethics begins where the world ends, and conversely, that the end of the world marks the beginning of ethics. To help make this point, Derrida turns to a fragment taken fro