Religion isn't for you What if the power of religion lies not in what is authentic or personal about it, but precisely in its capacity to make us feel strange and alienated from ourselves? Matthew Stanley • Samsara Diagnostics
When the Pope anathematized the teachings of St. Augustine How did the crypto-Catholic Jacques Lacan give us the Calvinist Slavoj Žižek? And could St. Augustine's theology be the key? Matthew Stanley • Theology
Edvard Munch, Death at the Helm, 1893, Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway. The rich young man in Jesus' clinic To be able to concretely love people, we must learn to partner with the mystery of change, to summon its appearance, come what may, and to diligently dance whichever conjuring ritual we happen to have stumbled upon ourselves. Matthew Stanley • Theology
"American Landscape" by Edward Hopper (1920) An Ox-Herder without his ox The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures mirror something of the Hero’s Journey, but they also include a bit more Lacanian honesty than Campbell’s popular monomyth. Matthew Stanley • Buddhism
I'll be presenting at TUCON 2024 "De-programming the schooled subject with Illich and Lacan" - accepted paper proposal for TUCON 2024 Matthew Stanley • Moloch Theory
Antigone and the corpse of her brother Polynieces Every law is founded on a crime "There are no more cannibals, because we ate the last one yesterday," Zupančič jokes wryly to capture the essential logic of law. Matthew Stanley • Book review
