Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

'Mightn’t it be time to talk?' The Canadian journalist-philosopher David Cayley on Covid, Agamben, Illich, medical religion and the call for a new reformation. davidcayley.com/blog/2020/12/3/pandemic-revelations-1

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @giantgio An aside. The first 'philosophical voice' I ran across speaking to COVID-19 politicization, issued through the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking. The @ParisCritical X account was suspended soon thereafter. Cayley, Illich's biographer, and Agamben-alert, was lucid, fast, too.Quoted by@giantgio An aside. The first 'philosophical voice' I ran across speaking to COVID-19 politicization, issued through the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking. The @ParisCritical X account was suspended soon thereafter. Cayley, Illich's biographer, and Agamben-alert, was lucid, fast, too.Quoted by@TaraAnnThieke Cayley continues to be reliable.Quoted by@theologygurl @scott_m_coley @wjkbooks Though there’s no need to go East, for trenchant critiques of medical religion.Quoted by@ceisenstein Beautiful. Have you encountered David Cayley, one of Girard’s foremost English-language interpreters, on Covid?Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Aelkus I treat & regard influenza & Covid as serious diseases. Yet relative to the 1889-90 & 1918-20 pandemics, Covid is genuinely mild. What, then, explains our fierce terror about it? Life, modernism and us existentially revealed as lacking the security, order and control we imagine?Quoted by@Aelkus I treat & regard influenza & Covid as serious diseases. Yet relative to the 1889-90 & 1918-20 pandemics, Covid is genuinely mild. What, then, explains our fierce terror about it? Life, modernism and us existentially revealed as lacking the security, order and control we imagine?Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Kairos_Center /1 Excellent. And so we look deeper, theologically even, at the structural incoherence and injustice implicit to a supremacist biomedical paradigm. The dialog, indivisible from the #ThirdReconstructionQuoted by@Kairos_Center /1 Excellent. And so we look deeper, theologically even, at the structural incoherence and injustice implicit to a supremacist biomedical paradigm. The dialog, indivisible from the #ThirdReconstructionQuoted by@poetinbabylon Did you get to the Agamben-Illich connection? ?s=20Quoted by@poetinbabylon @JosiahHawthorne It's not working, is it?Quoted by2/ I'll tell you why front-line healthcare workers I've loved through the years - mostly women - have been threatened with termination to take vaccines. For one, because they've cared for the folks for whom it has gone wrong. Research medical religion.Quoted byIn Facebook, just now, this.