May 2004
The Archives
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When robots attack
Robots have a right to protest too. And, now we know, the gumption to do it too. Following the ever masculine General J.C. Christian, Patriot, I call for an immediate robot protest advocating the release of millions of spermatozoan-Americans from their frozen captivity in sperm banks across America. Anybody with me? Who wants to picket? […]
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Decency and Slapout, OK
05.27.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Decency and Slapout, OKIsraeli philosopher Avishai Margalit says that a decent institution is one that doesn’t humiliate people. Besides the obvious point about US indencency in Abu Ghraib, there is also the case of the United Methodist Church (my former home). Can a denomination littered with conferences which hold the open secret of “punishment parishes” not be said […]
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Redemption at hand
05.26.04 | Permalink | 4 CommentsHave you heard? It’s no longer Abu Ghraib—that was the bad place. Now it’s been renamed Camp Redemption. You wouldn’t want to deny Iraqis redemption , would you?
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Evil is banal
05.24.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Evil is banal9/11 pariah Susan Sontag had this to say in a recent Guardian: You ask yourself how someone can grin at the sufferings and humiliation of another human being – drag a naked Iraqi man along the floor with a leash? set guard dogs at the genitals and legs of cowering, naked prisoners? rape and sodomise […]
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Waging story
From Mother Jones, a piece on the importance of waging story, not critique.
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Market, Empire, Terror
05.19.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Market, Empire, TerrorAt the recent Moltmann conference, theologian Doug Meeks argued that a theology of hope means that “neither Globalization, nor Empire, nor Terror, is fated.” By “globalization” here I think he means specifically market globalization, not the wider globalization of NGOs and cultural hybridity. We’re left then with Market, Empire and Terror. Are these the three […]
