Jea Sophia Oh, “Watching Avatar through Deleuzian 3D, Desire,...
By employing Deleuzian conceptualizations of “desire,” “deterritorialization,” and “doubling,”1 this study examines Avatar (James Cameron’s 2009 film) as a hybridity of becoming the Other. I will...
View ArticleA Graduate Student’s Top Five Picks: Joshua B. Bennett
"What constitutes a livable, grievable life? What does it mean to be alive? For those of us who have, historically, had a fraught relationship to and with the land, with animals, with machines, how do...
View ArticleLife in the Aftermath: On Predictable Politics and an Unpredictable Nature
"Isaiah speaks of singing mountains and hills, and trees that clap their hands. How can a tree that has had strange fruit hanging from it rejoice? Because even in the midst of pain and intense...
View ArticleMistake
"When I chat and net A lighthouse I become, That looks towards the west But stands as if mum."
View ArticleOn Richard Twiss: A Tribute
"Richard’s vision for decolonization extended to all peoples. He challenged Christian evangelical treatment of Palestinian peoples on the Trinity Broadcast Network (and was not invited back). He worked...
View ArticlePope Pancho, Hope, and Shadows
"But the great, overwhelming eruption of our time lies deeper than all these things, in the very core of our imagination, in how we live with one another, and how we divide and order our society."
View ArticleReflections on the Boarding School Dorms
"But the rez, and Indian Country in general, is a complex place with a complex history, peopled by individuals who choose to live there for positive as well as negative reasons. The land is itself an...
View ArticleA Critical Reflection on Seminary Education
"We must learn what the earth meant to those native to this land, the people that have been studying it for thousands of years. In a western constructed reality Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)...
View ArticleListening to the World: The Need for Postcolonial Literature in the Secondary...
"If we start teaching information that has very little context for learners in the United States, we as educators focus on difference and can end up “othering” an entire nation, the most significant...
View ArticleSeventh Monday: Pamphletarian Theology with Cláudio Carvalhaes
"The Landless Movement is the world largest social movement with more than 500.000 members and is connected with the Via Campesina. The movement proposes a new possible world, fight for agrarian reform...
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