Ressentiment is not a psychology. It is a composition of time. We have yet to come to terms with its movements.
A collection of works on the physics, religion, philosophy, and history of how we’ve composed time
Practices of Time in the New Testament
Chronology
A running list of posts
Bataille, Religion, Experience
What is to become of religion in our incandescent time? In this essay, I begin a descent into Bataille’s speculations on the contingent birth of consciousness out of the ‘water in water’ of pure experience. This is essential work for rejuvenating our moral compass.
Ressentiment Unbound
Nietzsche treated ressentiment as a consolation for a desire for vengeance that is too weak to act. But what happens when it finds itself in power? In this essay, I explore the consequences of empowered ressentiment on the woke left.
His Name is John
A reading of Luke’s account of the naming of John the Baptist.
Reading the Iliad: Mênis and the Moral Compass
Descending into Achilles passive mēnis in the Iliad leads to a better understanding of the birth of our democratic moral compass.
Mark 1:15, Metanoeite
Reclaiming ‘metanoia’ as a word badly in need of rejuvenation.
Rejuvenation
Have we lost the power of rejuvenation?
Reading the Iliad: Wisdom and Violence
The first of an ongoing re-engagement with the Iliad. Here we have an untimely meditation that holds up the mirror of violence to a culture desparately in need of alternatives to vendettas.
Reading Zarathustra: The Three Metamorphoses
The three metamorphoses Zarathustra describes in his first speech after the prologue moves us beyond any knee-jerk philosophical and religious musings of ‘being and becoming’. The vision presented here is far more sophisticated.
Reading Zarathustra: The Speeches of Zarathustra
The second installment of my series of Reading Zarathustra. This focuses on the problem of teaching, discipleship, truth telling, and companionship in ‘The Speeches of Zarathustra’ from Book I.
The Earth in Time
When did the earth begin is a strange question. To trace its answer is to find oneself deeply entangled into the contingency of motions that make up the Grand Narrative of the cosmos.
Words and Things
An excerpt from my essay on Michel Serres’ The Parasite. Words are not things. They are contingencies of motion with a very long history of working out the details.
Reading Zarathustra: Prologue
The first in a commentary series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This post covers Zarathustra’s Prologue.
Vesuvius: Time as Contingency
An essay about thinking time as contingency
Time Out of Joint
How do we compose time?
Time and Theodicy
Religion and philosophy emerge when we descend into our experience of time
At the Edge of le Grand Récit
L’Incandescent
Galileo’s Pulse
Mark 3:31-35: Who Is, Here Is
