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"The impact of Gilles Deleuze on critical thought in the opening decades of the twenty-first century rivals that of Jacques Derrida or Michel Foucault on critical thought in the closing decades of the twentieth. The ""Deleuze and..."" industry is in overdrive in the humanities, the social sciences, and beyond, busily connecting Deleuzian philosophy to everything from literature to architecture, metaphysics to mathematics, ethics to physics, sexuality to technology, and ecology to theology. What of Deleuze and the Bible? What does the Bible become when it is plugged into the Deleuzian corpus? An immense affective assemblage, among other things. And what does biblical criticism become in the process? A practice of close reading that is other than interpretation and renounces the concept of representation. Not just for those already familiar with the work of Deleuze, the book begins with an extended introduction to Deleuzian thought. It then proceeds to unexegetical explorations of five successive themes: Text (how to make yourself a Bible without Organs, and why); Body (why there are no bodies in the Bible, and how to read them anyway); Sex (a thousand tiny sexes, a trillion tiny Jesuses); Race (Jesus and the white faciality machine); and Politics (democracy, despots, pandemics, ancient prophets). Cumulatively, these explorations limn the fluid contours of a Bible after Deleuze."
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Author: Stephen D. Moore (Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies, Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies, Theological School, Drew University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
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Width: 24.00cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 16.20cm
Weight: 0.581kg
ISBN: 9780197581254
ISBN 10: 0197581250
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 21 December 2022
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Abbreviations INTRODELEUZE (who and why?) Deleuze in Theory The Box and the Machine The Deleuze Affect ELand the Bible? 1. TEXT (the Bible without organs) Part I: At the Bible Study with Foucault and Deleuze What Is a Biblical Author? Knowledge, Power, Desire Part II: At the Bible Study with Deleuze and Guattari In Flux, in Assemblage The Book of Order-Words A Bible That Expresses Everything While Communicating Nothing How Do You Make Yourself a Bible without Organs? 2. BODY (why there are no bodies in the Bible, and how to read them anyway) Part I: The Eclipse of the Ancient Body Bodies Discoursed and Performed Bodies in a Noumenal Night Part II: The Ponderous Weight of the Incorporeal Synoptic Body Nonrepresenting the Synoptic Body What Is a Body When It Is Incorporeal? The Mundane Miracle of Reading (Everywhere Enacted Daily) 3. SEX (a thousand tiny sexes, a trillion tiny Jesuses) Part I: The Deleuzian Queer Desiring and Naming The Proletariat of Eros (Producing the Product Society Cannot Want) Part II: Queer Mark The Coming, and Becoming, of Christ The Crucified Body without Organs The Risen Body without Organs 4. RACE (Jesus and the white faciality machine) Part I: The Matter of Race White Light Dark Matter, I Jesus in Jackboots Dark Matter, II Is Race Structured Like a Language? Part II: Race and Face Assembling Race Facing Race Defacing Race 5. POLITICS (beastly boasts, apocalyptic affects) Unmethodological Prelude Tweets from the Bottomless Abyss Larval Fascisms, Insect Apocalypses Horrible Hope Post-Beast Postscript Index
Reviews
Arguably the most prominent and prolific critic when it comes to reading the Bible with theory, Moore has done it again with what he calls 'post-poststructuralist' theory. * Tat-siong Benny Liew * Yet another prodigy from Moore's cabinet of wonders. * A K M Adam * Stephen D. Moore produces an impressively generative approach to Deleuze (and Guattari) and affect. * Gregory J. Seigworth *
Arguably the most prominent and prolific critic when it comes to reading the Bible with theory, Moore has done it again with what he calls 'post-poststructuralist' theory. * Tat-siong Benny Liew * Yet another prodigy from Moore's cabinet of wonders. * A K M Adam * Stephen D. Moore produces an impressively generative approach to Deleuze (and Guattari) and affect. * Gregory J. Seigworth * The Bible after Deleuze contributes to this growing literature by reading the New Testament through the lens of Deleuzian theory. * Brent Adkins, The Heythrop Journal * I will read this book again in order to continue to learn and be challenged. One cannot ask for more. * John Reader, Wootton, Oxfordshire, and William Temple Foundation, Rochdale, Modern Believing *
Arguably the most prominent and prolific critic when it comes to reading the Bible with theory, Moore has done it again with what he calls 'post-poststructuralist' theory. * Tat-siong Benny Liew * Yet another prodigy from Moore's cabinet of wonders. * A K M Adam * Stephen D. Moore produces an impressively generative approach to Deleuze (and Guattari) and affect. * Gregory J. Seigworth *
Author Information
Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies Theological School, Drew University. He is author or editor, co-author or co-editor, of around thirty books, including the monographs Untold Tales from the Book of Revelation: Sex and Gender, Empire and Ecology (2014) and Gospel Jesuses and Other Nonhumans: Biblical Criticism Post-poststructuralism (2017), and the collection (co-edited with Karen Bray) Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies (2019).
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