Today’s MORAL MONDAY Action
Today’s MORAL MONDAY Action
Today’s MORAL MONDAY Action
by Mark Lewis Taylor “Yuri Kochiyama has become an ancestor.” That is how Mumia Abu-Jamal commemorates Yuri Kochiyama in his audio recording this week, “Yuri Kochiyma: A Life in Struggle,” thus giving voice and remembrance to Kochiyama, the Asian-American participant in Afro-Asian and many other U.S. and global movements. Small of stature though she was, […]
by Mark Lewis Taylor As I was preparing for classes yesterday, I quickly squeezed out a reply to FOX News reporter, Joshua Rhett Miller, and his inquiry to me about the possible comparisons of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Martin Luther King, Jr. The reporter was preparing what proved to be a FOX News attack essay on […]
Historical studies of the practice of crucifixion show it to be a torture practice intrinsic to the politics of state violence (for one such study, Martin Hengel’s Crucifixion remains essential). In light of this, frequent talk by Christians of Jesus’ action on the cross as a necessary “saving action” is highly problematic, at best. At […]
© Mark Lewis Taylor (The following short paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Comparative Literature, at a session on “Deconstructing Capital Punishment: Analyzing Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars, vol. 1, University of Chicago Press, 2013). Photo above right: Derrida on the death penalty at Robert Cardozo Law School. David Long, two […]
My new article, “Decolonizing Mass Incarceration: ‘Flesh Will Wear Out Chains’,” has just been released at the Journal of Culture, Religion and Theory, part of its special issue on “Decoloniality and Crisis.” The full article PDF is now available at the JCRT.
ON DISPOSSESSION AND DEPARTURE A Response to Judith Butler’s Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism by Mark Lewis Taylor A condensed version of the review printed below was presented on a panel treating Judith Butler’s book, Parting Ways, at the American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, November 25, 2013, in Baltimore, MD. The […]
The Radical Philosophy Review (RPR), the journal of the Radical Philosophy Association, has just published my article-length review essay of Dussel’s recently translated book, Ethics of Liberation in the Age of Globalization and Exclusion. The published essay can be purchased at Radical Philosophy Review, Volume 17, Number 1 (2014): 307-312. RPR has kindly consented to my maintaining […]
Liberating the New Materialism by Mark Lewis Taylor A Review Essay of Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey Robbins, Religion, Earth & Politics: The New Materialism Forthcoming, in The Journal of Political Theology. Used by permission of the journal. This essay will be slightly edited for publication, scheduled as a journal release in 2014. Presented originally at […]
by Mark Lewis Taylor The new film “Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary” has just completed a successful run in major-city theaters and will be released as a DVD/home video June 11. The film treats the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal, to some a “cop-killer,” but he has maintained his innocence for nearly 30 years on death row […]