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KATE KHATIB among them, human time is fallen time. Man inhabits the profane realm and is charged with the task of rediscovering ...

AUTOMATIC THEOLOGIES years earlier, he had already collaborated with Soupault onThe Magnetic Fields, the first set of texts that ...

KATE KHATIB This last point is of crucial importance. Automatic writing, in the surrealist sense of the term, was not, is not, a ...

AUTOMATIC THEOLOGIES its goal being not so much a greater understanding of the self (this would be, for example, the goal of som ...

KATE KHATIB it is surrealist. It is crucial to realize that the decades-long language game that ensued after the ‘‘discovery’’ o ...

AUTOMATIC THEOLOGIES Etc. No, indeed, sir.It means nothing of the kind. Put your butterfly back in its carafe. You may be sure t ...

KATE KHATIB mon heritage of which we each have only to claim our share, and which must at all costs soon cease to be seen as the ...

Theoscopy Transparency, Omnipotence, and Modernity Stefanos Geroulanos To be forever seen without seeing back is to succumb to a ...

STEFANOS GEROULANOS recently, in an attempt to explain why the invisible and unavailable Creator-God served, in the Middle Ages, ...

THEOSCOPY concept of vision returns to organize modern everyday life, how theoscopy is recon- structed in a society devoid of Go ...

STEFANOS GEROULANOS shown, just as the visual realm forms a blueprint for analyses of power, so it is rife with problematic form ...

THEOSCOPY of transcendence. ‘‘The sacred,’’ for example, functions in his thought as both a modality of power and a quasi-theolo ...

STEFANOS GEROULANOS old power technique that originated in Christian institutions.’’^36 On the one hand, power, in its very tran ...

THEOSCOPY This spiritual and theological isomorphism also underlies Foucault’s rather strange sympathy for the Iranian Revolutio ...

STEFANOS GEROULANOS Transparency also reappeared as a problem once the single order of discourse breaks down: ‘‘There was no lon ...

THEOSCOPY tween them, linking them together, extending them and above all making it possible to bring the effects of power to th ...

STEFANOS GEROULANOS transcendental, because of its omnipotence and near-divine force.^64 And what acquires divine status (in a v ...

THEOSCOPY implicitly evoking an anthropological line from Le ́vy-Bruehl through Mauss up to Ba- taille.^73 Not only is the spect ...

STEFANOS GEROULANOS commodity capitalism and the reduction to representation of ‘‘all that was once directly lived’’?^82 Anselm ...

THEOSCOPY It is thus not entirely out of place to interpret many of Debord’s critiques of the spectacle (and of spectacles—cinem ...