Anthropocene update
I promised a kind of summary or overview of my current project on Anthropocene theology, but that will need to wait a while. This post will explain why. I understand...
Anthropocene theology
The Anthropocene: what until recently geologists had called the Holocene — the Recent Era — they are now increasingly coming to designate as the era of humanity, the era during...
building
A book that I have returned to often over the years is Gabriel Josipovici’s The Book of God. Josipovici is an English (though born in France) novelist and critic who,...
a change of plan
Re-reading Gravity’s Rainbow — for the first time in decades — has been a remarkable experience. Among other things, I had forgotten how dark the book is and how interested...
what I’m doing here
Just a quick post here to note that this ongoing orgy of Pynchoniana will be neither systematic nor scholarly, but rather impulsive and haphazard. I am reading Pynchon with a...
The Big Pynchon Re-Read
As regular readers of this blog will know, I’ve spent a good bit of time over the past couple of years thinking about what I call the technological history of...
the giant in the library
The technological history of modernity, as I conceive of it, is a story to be told in light of a theological anthropology. As what we now call modernity was emerging,...
a technological tale for Reformation Day
What I have been calling the technological history of modernity is in part a story about the power of recognizing how certain technologies work — and the penalties imposed on...
myths we can’t help living by
One reason the technological history of modernity is a story worth telling: the power of science and technology to provide what the philosopher Mary Midgley calls “myths we live by”....
the Roman world and ours, continued
To pick up where I left off last time: Imagine that you are a historian in the far future: say, a hundred thousand years from now. Isn’t it perfectly possible...