Mardi gras
I learned the language of angels in a religious experience on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras 1987. One night I […]
Category: religio
Sacrament
“Światu grożą trzy plagi, trzy zarazy. Pierwsza–to plaga nacjonalizmu. Druga–to plaga rasizmu. Trzecia–to plaga religijnego fundamentalizmu. Te trzy plagi mają […]
Times Roman
Below are some of my photos from a recent trip to Rome. This collection is of architectural ruins and art/historical […]
Translation’s Haunt (The Rolle Excursus), Part II
When we examine Rolle’s practice in the Name of Jesus cult through the lens of medieval Christograms, we arrive at […]
Translation’s Haunt (The Rolle Excursus), Part I
If we resort to merely philological evidence, we can readily see that translationhas always meant more than the narrowly defined […]
Barabbas, Son of the Father (In Our Age)
It was unanimous: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John have the Jews calling out the name Barabbas, calling out for Barabbas’s […]
Sol Invictus
Anselm Kiefer’s Sol Invictus Kiefer is one of my favorite living artists, and I’m happy to live near Fort Worth, where […]
Malevich and Suprematism, Part 3: A Desert of Pure Feeling
Since I have sworn that I would not pursue retranslating Malevich’s Suprematism manifesto until after completing the dissertation, I’ll use […]
Malevich and Suprematism, Part II: Gadamerian Hermeneutics
In Part 1, Section 1.2B.iv “The limits of Erlebniskunst and the rehabilitation of allegory” in Truth and MethodGadamer delineates between […]
Malevich and Suprematism, Part I
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich [Казимир Северинович Малевич] was Russian in its most contested forms: he was born in Ukraine of ethnic […]