Exciting to see this announced:

Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot
Holly Langstaff

"Demonstrates Blanchot's ongoing importance for contemporary philosophical debate about technology, the post-human, and ecological thinking"

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-art-and...

New Cambridge Element, Problems of God in Descartes.
Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
cup.org/48MHDro

Fields of Opportunities | Stanford University Press Encounters with a range of small-scale family farms contribute to a fundamental rethinking of what constitutes progress towards sustainable agriculture in the United States today.

Forthcoming on sustainable/ regenerative agriculture:

“Fields of Opportunities: New Farmers, Small Farms, and What Comes after Industrial Agriculture”
Andrea Rissing

www.sup.org/books/anthro...

A little write-up of our recent event on "the wisdom of bees", where I was a speaker, including a short video:

lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/news/storyte...

Currently reading:
"Creation as Sacrament: Reflections on Ecology and Spirituality"
John Chryssavgis

New publication that looks interesting:
"Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare"
Greg Doran
bloomsbury.com/uk/walking-s...

"Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens"
David Stuttard
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Doug Wilson has been a major influence on Pete Hegseth. Here is a summary of Wilson's beliefs, all referenced in his own words, including:

- Slavery wasn't that bad
- AIDS is not a real infectious disease
- The physically disabled can't enter into real marriage

dougwilsonbelieves.com

A study of the photo-journalism of Sebastião Salgado in relation to global social, cultural and ecological crisis:
lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/LSRIResearch...
Download this new article for free.

“Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond”
Piero Boitani

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Two Disciples at the Tomb, c.1906
Henry Ossawa Tanner

William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The Three Marys at the Tomb, 1876

Giovanni Bellini, The Descent of Christ into Limbo, c.1475 - 1480

Forthcoming important new book:
"Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology"
Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev
www.sup.org/books/politi...

Our next "Down to Earth" Dialogue will explore case studies of integral agroecology:

📅 23 April 2026, 14:00-15:30 BST
🔗 iern.org/event/downto...

Repatriating Bruno Latour for the Left
logisticsofreligionblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/r...

(repost)

"Bergson and Affect: Intensity, Virtuality and the Body"
Miguel José Paley
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-bergson...

Thanks so much, CCOW. Much appreciated.

New publication:
"Indirectness: A Plea for Truth in Times of Post-Truth"
Ed. Jela Krečič, Jure Simoniti
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-indirec...

Here is my new article on the nature photography of Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado. What can we learn from his beautiful work about the "politics of the visual" that directs us at this time of global ecological crisis?

Read here: lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

We have just launched a prize (£5,000) to be awarded for a student-led agroecological project.
Must demonstrate measurable, real-world impact on climate resilience and livelihoods, with a credible path to scale.
Details here: iern.org/laulanie/

Indeed, and our mission is to address this anew in each and every generation - I guess.

10/ When Sec. Hegseth applies the imprecatory Psalms to his war effort and glorifies violence in God's name: “I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and did not turn back till they were consumed” - he is co-opting Christianity by means of a heresy that was identified as such by the early church.

9/ Most of all, Voegelin warns us against falling for a false (= ersatz) version of Christianity based on (what he calls) "metastatic eschatology" - when we "leap" out of being in reach of some future vision of utopia, which it turns out is undergirded by a human, all-too-human political ideology.

8/ By contrast, Voegelin calls us to dwell in "the Metaxy", rather than escape it. To remain humble, rather than ideological. To resist Gnostic closure and its contemporary prophets. And to trust that the end is known only to God, not to us.

7/ It is precisely this Metaxy that Hegseth's rhetoric is directed to undercut and simplify. For him, the provisionality of reality can be prematurely unified by means of unilateral political power, backed up (in his case) by the mandate of the supposed Christian God. youtube.com/watch?v=OmGK...

6/ For Voegelin, Gnostic movements obsure what he calls the "authentic constitution of being". He identifies this with "the Metaxy" (an old Platonic term) - the uncertain space of the in-between where encounters with the divine send us back to the world with humility & self-evaluation.

5/ He argued that if we understand the "ersatz" spirituality that underlies these modern political ideologies, we will be equipped to challenge them and move towards with a more robust, honest and authentic global political order.

4/ Voegelin borrowed the term “Gnosticism” (taken from ancient religious movements) to describe the structure of these modern political ideologies.