Then there is the 1988 Bantam paperback by Philip Caputo —
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The Caputo Deconstruction
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Links for Wednesday (and Nevermore Academy)
1. A New York Times obituary from today
2. The name Caputo in this journal
3. Death and Venice: The Flyin' Lion
Monday, April 15, 2019
Sacerdotal Jargon
The interested reader can easily find the source of the above prose.
Monday, March 10, 2014
God’s Architecture
Part I:
The sermon, “God’s Architecture,” at Nassau Presbyterian
Church in Princeton on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. (This is the
“sermon” link in last Sunday’s 11 AM ET Log24 post.)
An excerpt:
“I wonder what God sees when God looks at our church.
Bear with me here because I’d like to do a little architectural
redesign. I look up at our sanctuary ceiling and I see buttons.
In those large round lights, I see buttons. I wonder what would
happen if we unbutton the ceiling, Then I wonder if we were to
unzip the ceiling, pull back the rooftop, and God were to look in
from above – What does God see? What pattern, what design,
what shape takes place?” — Rev. Lauren J. McFeaters
Related material — All About Eve:
A. The Adam and Eve sketch from the March 8 “Saturday Night Live”
B. “Katniss, get away from that tree!” —
C. Deconstructing God in last evening’s online New York Times .
Part II:
“Heavensbee!” in the above video, as well as Cartier’s Groundhog Day
and Say It With Flowers.
Part III:
Humans’ architecture, as described (for instance) by architecture
theorist Anne Tyng, who reportedly died at 91 on Dec. 27, 2011.
See as well Past Tense and a post from the date of Tyng’s death.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Nutshell continued
For the new Jesuit pope (see previous post)
Now among Log24 posts tagged "Khora" is one
from July 15, 2010, dealing with a book called
Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with
Jacques Derrida , edited and with a commentary by
John D. Caputo (Fordham University Press, 1997).
Related material:
"Khora is the felix culpa of a passion for the impossible,
the happy fault of a poetics of the possible, the heartless
heart of an ethical and religious eschatology.
Khora is the devil that justice demands we give his due."
— John D. Caputo, conclusion of "Abyssus Abyssum Invocat :
A Response to Kearney." Caputo's remarks followed
Richard Kearney's "Khora or God?," pp. 107-122 in
A Passion for the Impossible: John D. Caputo in Focus ,
edited by Mark Dooley, State University of New York Press,
Albany, 2003. See "Abyssus " on pp. 123-127.
See also other uses here of the phrase "In a Nutshell."
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Derrida at Villanova
"As Derrida said at Villanova,
"We wait for something we would not like to wait for.
That is another name for death."
— Brian D. Ingraffia, "Is the Postmodern Post-Secular?,"
p. 50 in Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought ,
ed. by Merold Westphal, Indiana University Press, 1999, pp. 44-68
See also Derrida at Villanova in this journal.
The link to Ingraffia's remarks was suggested by
this evening's New York Times obituaries—