Contimentalist
@contimentalist.bsky.social
Theology and Religion PhD candidate @ Durham
Continental Philosophy | hermeneutics | phenomenology | political theology
Continental Philosophy | hermeneutics | phenomenology | political theology
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no maybe you can’t “read everything in your field” but you can die trying which is basically what a PhD is
December 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
no maybe you can’t “read everything in your field” but you can die trying which is basically what a PhD is
A good forum discussion on what is obscured in prevailing debates about migration and the class politics which are actually at stake.
After UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave a speech in May that warned darkly about the nation becoming an “island of strangers,” a Labour representative had only the following to say: “Tough words and tough policy are required to solve tough problems.”
The Real Border Crisis - Boston Review
The problem isn't immigration. It's the failure of liberal democracy itself.
www.bostonreview.net
December 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A good forum discussion on what is obscured in prevailing debates about migration and the class politics which are actually at stake.
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Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
It wasn’t exactly subtle at the time, but it’s painfully clear now that white evangelical reformed appropriation of Scottish common-sense realism and the Wittgenstein concept of language games were both reactionary attempts to contest the emerging social consensus around sexuality and gender norms.
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It wasn’t exactly subtle at the time, but it’s painfully clear now that white evangelical reformed appropriation of Scottish common-sense realism and the Wittgenstein concept of language games were both reactionary attempts to contest the emerging social consensus around sexuality and gender norms.
Can’t have a robust sense of what it means to love without some orientation towards what is true and good—together this entails not leaving people to remain as they are, but also respecting their inherent dignity. As always the problem of politics is the question of what it means to be a society.
Right wing people will always exist, and they’ll probably be somewhere from a third to a half of the population. Finding a balanced way to deal with the threat they pose with a Christian command to love them is a real challenge. How does loving them also look like loving the oppressed?
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Can’t have a robust sense of what it means to love without some orientation towards what is true and good—together this entails not leaving people to remain as they are, but also respecting their inherent dignity. As always the problem of politics is the question of what it means to be a society.
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
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Has this been posted yet
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Has this been posted yet
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Continental philosophy enjoyers be like:
Look, I just don't like books in which it is easy to tell what is happening.
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Continental philosophy enjoyers be like:
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Liverpool crashing harder than bitcoin
November 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Liverpool crashing harder than bitcoin
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I have a query from a colleague looking for someone who can talk theology and politics in US Catholicism, and no names are springing immediately to mind. Any suggestions?
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I have a query from a colleague looking for someone who can talk theology and politics in US Catholicism, and no names are springing immediately to mind. Any suggestions?
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Forty years ago today, Calvin & Hobbes was first published. It's all fabulous but, as time went on, Bill Watterson decided he was going to make his Sunday pages the most gorgeous, creative, and varied of all. This is one of my favourites, partly for the use of the looooong final panel.
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Forty years ago today, Calvin & Hobbes was first published. It's all fabulous but, as time went on, Bill Watterson decided he was going to make his Sunday pages the most gorgeous, creative, and varied of all. This is one of my favourites, partly for the use of the looooong final panel.
Jesus to the multitudes;
i still don't understand why so many of y'all follow me
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Jesus to the multitudes;
Mega-church styled American Pentecostalism is almost entirely an attempt to occupy the corner of the market which offers a religious and individualistic psychological therapeutic, complete with technologies of optimization designed for appropriating conservative and reactionary ideologies.
Not to go full Adorno here, but I feel it's part of the issue with contemporary evangelical/non-denominational/Pentecostal Christianity essentially turning a commodity: the amount of Christian AI slop and kitsch on YouTube is the other side of this, and it comes from the same impulse.
There's something just so vulgar about modern evangelical megachurches.
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Mega-church styled American Pentecostalism is almost entirely an attempt to occupy the corner of the market which offers a religious and individualistic psychological therapeutic, complete with technologies of optimization designed for appropriating conservative and reactionary ideologies.
These circumlocutions are absolutely disgusting. Gaetz, a sitting member of Congress, exploited and raped a homeless teenager. THAT’S THE HEADLINE.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
These circumlocutions are absolutely disgusting. Gaetz, a sitting member of Congress, exploited and raped a homeless teenager. THAT’S THE HEADLINE.
capitalism is getting so unpopular they’re canceling money…
After 232 years, the U.S. Mint has produced its last-ever penny
U.S. Mint In Philadelphia Presses Final Pennies As The 1-Cent Coin Gets Canceled
The Treasury Department expects to save $56 million per year on materials by ceasing to make them.
www.huffpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
capitalism is getting so unpopular they’re canceling money…
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It is such a dumb and violent time to do a PhD.
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
It is such a dumb and violent time to do a PhD.
It’s really exceptional. There are like four or five different languages throughout the album?
ROSALÍA's LUX is not just the album of the year; it might be the album of the decade. It's jaw-dropping.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It’s really exceptional. There are like four or five different languages throughout the album?
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Anyway if you're a very sharp analyst within a particular discipline/policy domain, then becoming successful and subsequently succumbing to the temptation of all-purpose punditry is one of the most dangerous roads to damnation.
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Anyway if you're a very sharp analyst within a particular discipline/policy domain, then becoming successful and subsequently succumbing to the temptation of all-purpose punditry is one of the most dangerous roads to damnation.
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check it out
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
check it out
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Nobody wants to work anymore
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Nobody wants to work anymore
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Feminism is when you let women be all girly and the more girly they are the more feminist the workplace is.
November 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Feminism is when you let women be all girly and the more girly they are the more feminist the workplace is.
Yes. The response to “We are so divided!” is “Yes, yes we are. And given the choices of some of our coreligionists, we better be.”
Just shouting “Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!” to every word of this @schlesingene.bsky.social piece: eugenerschlesinger.substack.com/p/the-only-a...
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The Only Antidote to Polarization Is Confrontation
There Is No Middle-Ground With Fascism
eugenerschlesinger.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Yes. The response to “We are so divided!” is “Yes, yes we are. And given the choices of some of our coreligionists, we better be.”
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Just shouting “Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!” to every word of this @schlesingene.bsky.social piece: eugenerschlesinger.substack.com/p/the-only-a...
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The Only Antidote to Polarization Is Confrontation
There Is No Middle-Ground With Fascism
eugenerschlesinger.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Just shouting “Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!” to every word of this @schlesingene.bsky.social piece: eugenerschlesinger.substack.com/p/the-only-a...
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hope these good folks don’t let us down now.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
hope these good folks don’t let us down now.