- Zachary Braiterman is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. His specialization is modern Jewish thought and philosophical aesthetics. Facebook | Twitter | Academia.edu.
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Monthly Archives: August 2015
(Move Along Nothing to See Here) BDS & Anti-Semitism (Matisyahu)
For discourse theorists, of interest is how heated ideological arguments begin to assume the exact same form over time. For people tired about the cultural politics swirling around the debates regarding Israel and Palestine, it highlights how petty they can … Continue reading
The Color Yellow (Migration Series) (Jacob Lawrence)
A chronicle of the Great Migration of African Americans from south to north between 1915 and the 1950s, Jacob Lawrence’s iconic Migration Series was almost immediately broken into two lots. Finished in 1941, The Museum of Modern Art purchased the … Continue reading
(Networks & Religion) Bruno Latour (Modes of Existence)
I’m not sure if Bruno Latour is Christian or neo-pagan or more likely some new amalgam. We read it in the Syracuse Department of Religion theory reading group two years ago and I’m trying here to sort through and get … Continue reading
Race Riot (East St. Louis)
Jacob Lawrence, One of the largest race riots occurred in East St. Louis. 1940-41. Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18″ (30.5 x 45.7 cm) The more things change, the more they stay the same?
(ISIS) Accelerating Apocalyptic Techno-Time Online
Largely descriptive in character, there are a lot of articles in the press about how ISIS uses technology and social media. Phenomenologically, these tend to be flat, providing no sense of the lived religious sense created by new media. Much … Continue reading
9 Thoughts on the Matisyahu Disinvite, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and Leftist Discourse
Very thoughtful comments about BDS, left anti-Semitism, and litmus tests
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Albert-Alberta, Hubert’s Forty-second Street Flea Circus (Lisette Model)
Lisette Model, Albert-Alberta, Hubert’s Forty-second Street Flea Circus, (c. 1945). I’ve been admiring this photograph since seeing it, now for the third time, on view at the Whitney Museum. It’s part the inaugural exhibition at the new site of the … Continue reading
Times Square Topless (Social Karma)
Not exactly sex, there must be something about the social karma of the place and the porous public border between inside and outside. Years after the seedy strip clubs and porn shops were closed and cleared out, topless young women … Continue reading
כל בשר (Meat Not Transcendence (Duetero-Isaiah)
In scholarly and theological circles, Deutero-Isaiah is famous for the world-embracing transcendence of its vision. The heaven is My throne, the earth My footstool, a new heaven, a new earth, etc. (66:1, 22). But the focus of the text, chapter … Continue reading
(Cabaret Crusades) Art & History (Wael Shawky)
Giving the work an enhanced sense of distance, the mediation here is at least triple: a historical study, puppet-work, and video. No one comes out looking good, except the puppets themselves. Without a simple or easy political takeaway or moral … Continue reading