RT @nick_routledge: @iyad_elbaghdadi Including and transcending the death-dealing aggregate of a quasi-Abrahamic complex defined by exceptionalism, schism and war, what if collective liberation occurs only as a resurrective simultaneity of spiritual and world renewal at the planetary level?
@jasonwblakely 'The Politics to Come', a 2007 anthology, offers a lucid appraisal of political possibilities transcending the hidebound limits of exhausted secular and religious imaginaries and containment. Elsewhere, the Iranian political scientist, Ali Shari’ati, complements the revisioning.
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To be sure, modernity famously expels Judaeo-Christian messianism to the margins of thought – by variously labeling it dogma, superstition, fanaticism, false consciousness or ressentiment – but it does so precisely by taking as its own the political and temporal dynamism of eschatology... Yet, at the same time, it is possible to detect what, with apologies to Kant, we might call a newly arisen ‘messianic tone’ within contemporary thought. For Jacques Derrida, to take only the most prominent recent example, it is clear that the messianic represents the last – and perhaps even the best – means of keeping open a relation to an absolute, unforeseeable future in the face of every political, theological or economic attempt to foreclose upon that future: what he calls a ‘messianism without messianism’ becomes the best way of articulating ‘the “yes” to the arrivante(e), the “come” to the future that cannot be anticipated. - The Politics to Come: Power, Modernity and the Messianic
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What does it mean, then, to speak of ‘a Politics to Come’ today? Where does it come from? And why has it emerged now? Is it – to be crude – a step backwards into premodern theological dogma? Is it – equally crudely – the final nail in the coffin of an exhausted Enlightenment utopianism or communism? Or could this wary messianism – which despite every attempt to assimilate it still remains somehow stubbornly irreducible to the sovereign order of neo-liberal modernity – perhaps represent a way of thinking the theologico-political condition of modernity otherwise? Why has the possibility of a messianic Politics to Come reasserted itself now? Is it a ‘turn’ or a ‘return’? Is it a monstrous anachronism, postmodern kitsch or the logical outworking of modernity’s own theological origins? To what extent might it be the basis of a new political theology – or the sign of an irreducible theological remainder within the political? - The Politics to Come: Power, Modernity and the Messianic
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