TY - BOOK AU - Keller,Catherine TI - Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement T2 - Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture SN - 9780231538701 AV - BT83 .C568 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Negative theology KW - Christianity KW - Mysticism KW - Planets KW - Miscellanea KW - Electronic Books N1 - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=891685&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -