February 19, 2016 by Vincent Wimbush “I wish [we] knew how it would feel to be free”: The Subjunctive Mood …in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized and redistributed according to a certain number of procedures, whose role is to avert its powers and its dangers, to cope with chance events, to evade its ponderous, awesome materiality… We must […]
Editor’s Note: The following text was presented by C. Travis Webb at the First Annual Meeting of ISS in Portland, OR. It was the framing statement for the discussion on Meaning: How Represented, Communicated? Video for the discussion can be found here, and a full audio record of the discussion will be available soon. Franz Kafka is […]
The Countervailing Dynamics of Sanskritization Strategies and Vernacularizing Practices in Hindu Scriptural Traditions Barbara A. Holdrege, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara June 2016 In this essay I will interrogate the complex interplay between what Vincent Wimbush has characterized as the “enslaving” regimes of scriptural-ization and the “liberating” dynamics of scriptural-izing through […]
Trust: notes on authority and secular scripturalizing James S. Bielo, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio bielojs@miamioh.edu Tom is an atheist. He is an atheist, but his preferred term of self-identification is “non-theist.” He prefers non-theist, but depending on the context, he will also answer to skeptic, freethinker, and secular humanist. […]
