Tag: Media Theory

Trump and War and Cinema

Here’s a small sampling of passages in Paul Virilio’s War and Cinema where I saw fit to make a marginal note about Donald Trump. Some are more suggestive than others, and the passages aren’t meant to create a 1:1 correlation between the subject matter and Trump (e.g. sometimes they suggest important differences or flag an […]

Tags cinema, Donald Trump, Media Theory, military technology, Paul Virilio, Syria, technology, war

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Sloterdijk’s Jesuits

I just picked up a copy of Peter Sloterdijk’s latest English release, a collection of essays entitled Not Saved: Essays After Heidegger. The collection, which was released in German in 2001, is part of a burgeoning translation industry that tries to get English readers up to speed with Sloterdijk’s prolific and ongoing career. The subtitle […]

Tags anthropology, Cardinal Kasper, Cardinal Ratzinger, Catholicism, Critical Theory, Friedrich Kittler, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Ignatius of Loyola, Jesuits, Jurgen Habermas, Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, media, Media Theory, Peter Sloterdijk, St. Francis, theology