Cloud of the Impossible Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement.
- New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (409 pages)
- Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture .
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of Contents; Before; Part 1: Complications; 1. The Dark Nuance of Beginning; 2. Cloud-Writing: A Genealogy of the Luminous Dark; 3. Enfolding and Unfolding God: Cusanic Complicatio; Part 2: Explications; 4. Spooky Entanglements: The Physics of Nonseparability; 5. The Fold in Process: Deleuze and Whitehead; 6. "Unfolded Out of the Folds": Walt Whitman and the Apophatic Sex of the Earth; 7. Unsaying and Undoing: Judith Butler and the Ethics of Relational Ontology; Part 3: Implications; 8. Crusade, Capital, and Cosmopolis: Ambiguous Entanglements 9. Broken Touch: Ecology of the Im/possible10. In Questionable Love; After: Theopoetics of the Cloud; Notes; Acknowledments; Index
What generates the cloud of the impossible is what becomes possible in the very face of what appears to be impossible, whether it be radical democracy or the reversal of climate change. The experience of the impossible peaked at the end of the last century—politically, sexually, economically, and ecologically. The dream of progress became the trauma of reality, and confidence in better outcomes waned. Yet the connectivity and collectivity of social movements, of the fragile, unlikely webs of an alternative notion of existence, keep materializing—a haunting hope, dense in relationships, suggest.