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Matt and Preston joins the Post Structuralist Tent Revival to discuss Gil Anidjar's essay, "Globalatinology"!

Catherine Keller recently visited Sweden to deliver a few lectures in Betlehemskyrkan, Gothenburg. This episode is from the opening day which focused on introducing Catherine to the visitors. In the forthcoming weeks we will publish some of her lectures too. Organizers of the event Teologi som förändrar världen: Göteborgs stift, Equmeniakyrkan, Oscar Fredriks församling, Betlehemskyrkan, Sensus and Gothenburg University. Participants: KG Hammar, Petra Carlsson and Andreas Nordlander. Music by: Jonatan Bäckelie and Roma Ransom.

In this episode, Matt Baker and Preston Price speak with guests, Catherine Keller, and Clayton Crockett about political theology (among other things), which is the topic for Drew University’s impending interdisciplinary colloquium: Political Theology at the Edge: Collectivities of Crisis and Possibility, March 29-31, 2019. Click HERE for more details on how to register. Peace. Catherine will also be in Sweden March 18-19. Check out the Facebook event for more information.

The politics of the middle is a way of acting and representing the ordinary in everyday life. It opens up space to think about being political as an ordinary occurrence, something beyond otherworldly concerns. In this episode, Preston Price talks with Vincent Lloyd about the politics of the middle as well as other topics. Lloyd is associate professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University and the author of the book discussed in the show “The Problem with Grace” along with others. Enjoy!

In this episode of The Catacombic Machine, Preston Price talks with Aaron van Voorhis of Central Avenue Church in Glendale, California. Aaron has been on the show once before talking with Josef about his background in Christianity and the praxis of radical theology. We dive a little deeper into praxis and radical theology as we talked about what it means to minister to a radical community, the best way to engage people in conservative churches, and our current state of affairs in America. You can find more information about Aaron on his website and his church’s website here. Connect up with us on Facebook or Twitter and let us know what you think about this episode and previous iterations of the show.

Out of light comes darkness in the infinite play of destructivity. What was once whole has now become incomplete, a new de-creation of death-in-life. We want to hold onto the very fabric of living and beauty without realizing that each moment slips away, creating space for something new to emerge. It is this space of emergence which we find how meaning is made, through the constructs of destruction. This all might sound a bit dark, and that is the point. Without the serpent there would be no Fall, hence no redemption. Necropsychoanalysis does not have room for a savior, not even in the form of the analyst, though. One could say that it is a process of becoming attuned to dying, that life is miserable and meaningless, a dark cavern with infinite depths. Instead of analysis leading the subject outside of the world of shadows into the daylight of freedom, necropsychoanalysts seem to be co-developers of a deeper tread into darkness, the lightless plunge further into modes of despair. I’m not sure what to make of

Barry Taylor talk to Jack Caputo about Jacques Derrida as part of his Patreon series Theology After... Other conversation partners in this series has been Peter Rollins, Peter Sjöstedt-H and Josef Gustafsson. You can find Barry's Patreon page and listen to the other episodes at https://www.patreon.com/barrytaylor

In this episode, Jake Given and Matt Baker speak with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, about goats, metaphysics, science, Freud, Spinoza, panpsychism, and so on. Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University; core faculty in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; and affiliated faculty in the Science and Society Program. She holds a B.A. in Religion and English from Williams College, an M.Phil. in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Columbia University. Her areas of research include continental philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, science and religion, and the history and philosophy of physics, ecology, and cosmology. She is the author of Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (2009) Worlds without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (2014), and Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (forthcoming). Music by Adrian Romero

In this episode of TCM Preston Price speaks with Jeff Hood who is a Baptist pastor, theologian, and activist in the Texas area.  Music by Adrian Romero

In this TCM mini-episode you’ll hear a very short talk given by Philip Clayton last November as part of the New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking seminar at AAR in Boston. You’ll also hear brief responses and questions from Karen Brayand Paul Carr. Philip Clayton is the Ingraham Professor at Claremont School of Theologyin Claremont, California. Clayton has taught or held research professorships at Williams College, California State University, Harvard University, Cambridge University, and the University of Munich. His research focuses on biological emergence, religion and science, process studies, and contemporary issues in ecology, religion, and ethics. He is the recipient of multiple research grants and international lectureships, as well as the author of numerous books, including The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, Faith(2011); Religion and Science: The Basics(2011); Transforming Christian Theology: For Church and Society(2009); and In Quest of Freedom: The Emergence of Spirit

In this two-part episode of The Catacombic Machine we hear from Catherine Keller who was the guest at a recent live event hosted by Brew Theology, NJ. She discusses her book On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process, as well as several other things. Cheers!

In this two-part episode of The Catacombic Machine we hear from Catherine Keller who was the guest at a recent live event hosted by Brew Theology, NJ. She discusses her book On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process, as well as several other things. Cheers!

In this episode Matt Baker and Preston Price speak with Robyn Henderson-Espinozaand Tad Delayabout the theo-political climate in US following the controversial zero-tolerance policy separating migrant children from their parents. Sign up for Homebrewed Christianity's Theologies of Resistance Summer reading group here. Poem: "Home", by Warsan Shire.Reading: Alissgrey Munoz

In this episode of TCM, Preston Price speaks with Barry Taylor about several seemingly random topics: art, Freud, spirituality, shoes, food, religion, cartography, etc. Music - Amon Tobin: Deo. Jonatan Bäckelie: Laudate Guattari

The subsecular aims to conceptualize the experience of religion being forced into submission by a hegemonic secular culture. Attempts have been made over the years to speak of a “postsecular condition” and the “return of God” to critique the secularization thesis and to emphasize the continuous role religion plays in culture, politics and so on, but while the postsecular implies an understanding of religion and spirituality which at best is defined by the contours of the secular, the subsecular breaks open the discourse on religion to liberate human spirituality. Rather than allowing for secular society and its established values to dictate the terms for what religion could be, the subsecular accentuates the Spinozist notion that we do not know what a body can do. Philosopher Gilles Deleuze writes: The slave only conceives of power as the object of a recognition, the content of a representation, the stake in a competition, and therefore makes it depend at the end of a fight on a simple attribution of establis

In this episode of The Catacombic Machine, Matt Baker and Preston Price speak with Devin Singhabout his book Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West, among other things. Devin Singh is a social theorist and scholar of religion and theology. He is an Assistant Professor of Religionat Dartmouth College. Previously, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Lecturer in Religious Studies at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale, where he was named a Whiting Fellow, Yale's highest recognition for research in the humanities. Singh was also trained in social scientific theory and methods at the University of Chicago (M.A.), theology and divinity at Trinity International University (M.Div.), and religious studies at Pomona College (B.A.).

In this TCM mini-episode you’ll hear a very short talk given by Mary Jane Rubenstein last November as part of the New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking seminar at AAR in Boston. Your can read more about her here where's there's also links to some great videos.

In this TCM mini-episode, we hear a short talk given by Devin Singh last November as part of the Race, Coloniality and Philosophy of Religion Unit at AAR in Boston. Devin has recently written a book Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West. We'll hear more about that in an upcoming episode... Stay tuned.  

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

In this episode of TCM, Preston Price and Matt Baker speak with Christopher Rodkey, United Church of Christ pastor and religious educator, professor, and author. He is pastor of St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Penn State York, York College of Pennsylvania, and Lexington Theological Seminary. You can check out his author page on Amazon here. The Global Center for Advanced Studies is hosting a 3 part live and interactive Seminar on Deleuze: Dismantling Reactive Institutions with Deleuze: Theory and Practice, that will be led by Keith Faulkner. If you enroll by Sunday March 11th and mention "thecatacombicmachine" you can receive a 20% discount on the seminar. For details email . Sign up here. Additional details here. Intro In the popular 1984 film The Neverending Story, the protagonist, a young boy of around twelve years old named Bastian is chased by a group of bullies and manages to escape his pursuers by quickly ducking into a bookstore. Inside, he discovers an