Dwelling
Raids on the New Gnosticism III: Metric System, Human Scale, and Technologies of Control
In this series I have been trying to show how, quite without any nefarious intentions, anti-body assumptions have worked their way into our contemporary experience. Intentionally eclectic to show the many dimensions of how this [...]
Raids against the New Gnosticism, part II: Umpires, Judges, and Bureaucracy
In my last post I tried to indicate some ways in which a certain anti-body bias has worked its way into contemporary life. I worry about this re-emergence of the ancient Gnostic philosophy. "Hospitalism" or [...]
Raids against the new Gnosticism, Part I: Hospitalism and the Newborn Body
What are bodies for? It's not as obvious a question as it might seem. They're for using, I suppose. I use mine daily. They bring us (if "they" aren't "us" straightforwardly) a lot of pleasure [...]
Growing Roofs
February 12, 2022 His name is Jacques, and he kind of died a long time ago. I say his name "is" Jacques, and it might well have been, but what I mean is that it [...]
Walden, I Hope
This semester I'm teaching Theological Ethics. The first half of the course will be three theorists, or kind of big-picture introductions to ethics, Alan Donagan (Kantian/deontology), Paul Ramsey (love and agape, with a bit of [...]
Canoe Fairs Its Own Line
About six years ago I built a cedar-strip canoe. It was a very fun project, following the process laid out in Ted Moores' classic book Canoecraft. If you're interested in building a canoe I [...]
