theoretically apraxic

Not that I’m the first person to come to this realisation or anything, but I had a flash of insight the other day. I was reading Masuzawa on the invention of world religion. She makes the poin...

https://thomaslynch.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/religion-and-race/

I’m participating in a book event on Davis Hankins‘ The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of Transcendence over at the Working Group on Transcendental Materialism.

https://thomaslynch.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/post-at-working-group-on-contemporary-materialism/

Spoilers ahead. Interstellar was more interesting than good. I enjoyed the use of music, which some people found annoying. It showed a bit of ambition in an otherwise standard film. I’m tired ...

https://thomaslynch.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/interstellar/

Over the course of this semester I’ve been working on becoming more familiar with issues in philosophy of mind. In the past I’ve been hesitant to delve into the whole philosophy and neuroscie...

https://thomaslynch.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/adventures-in-philosophy-of-mind/

I’m a big fan of Norman McLaren’s work. I wasn’t familiar with his animations until I was on a theology and film panel in 2009. One of the other papers was on McLaren and I was hooked. I he...

https://thomaslynch.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/norman-mclaren-at-the-nfb/

I have an essay in a volume just out from Cascade (US, UK – available early 2015). My essay uses Lacan’s four discourses to discuss new approaches to liberation theology. Here’s the introdu...

https://thomaslynch.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/essay-in-new-volume/

I’ve been thinking more about this notion of the uncritiquable. Over the weekend I was reading Kant’s ‘What is Enlightenment?’ alongside Foucault’s essay of the same name. Foucault famo...

https://thomaslynch.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/continuation-through-transformation/

I’ve been emailing back and forth with a friend about Bloch, which made me remember how much I love Bloch. One thing I’ve never been able to come to grips with, though, is Bloch’s stuff on ...

https://thomaslynch.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/bloch-on-music/

Over at NDPR, Pinkard reviews Honneth’s Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life. From my perspective, Pinkard’s best point comes toward the end of the review when he wri...

https://thomaslynch.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/pinkard-on-new-honneth-book/

Dan Barber has a great blog post (with reference to a couple of excellent essays that he’s written) over at AUFS. I’ve probably been guilty of the revalorisation of Hegel at points (too much...

https://thomaslynch.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/against-the-uncritiquable/