Parsing Poetry and Public Discourse
Carefully analyzing the rhythm of a poem, layer-by-layer, may seem pointless, but it is in fact exactly what our public discourse needs.
Beyond Baudrillard: The Rhythms of Media Society
What happens when production-consumption meets television?
Baudrillard and the Rhythms of Consumer Society
Consumption is a rhythmic phenomenon.
Sciences of Rhythm
How should one study rhythm? The nineteenth century answer: “with the help of some pretty strange machines.”
A Reflection on Vision (for while I’m away)
I am currently in Vietnam visiting family and focusing all my attention on getting to know that culture, not on writing blog posts. In my absence, however, Transpositions, the blog associated with the University of Saint Andrews program in Theology, Imagination, and the Arts, has published an article […]
What is an Idea?
A phenomenology of the paradoxical experience of ideas (in conversation w/ Merleau-Ponty).
Using Rhythm to Move Beyond Text in the Study of Christian Spirituality
My accepted proposal for the AAR Christian spirituality unit re-defines Christian spirituality as synchronization of the body’s rhythms with the movements of the Holy Spirit.
Lenten Caesura: The silence of this blog for the next 40 days
Lent as a caesura of life’s rhythms – today that means a caesura of the rhythms of electronic media.
The Poetic Shape of the Doctrine of Recapitulation
Why the poetic form might be the best for understanding the shape of Christianity.
Windows and Wormholes: A Theological Assessment of the Images Used to Talk about Religious Art
What’s going on when we encounter the divine through art and how can we use language to describe the experience?
The Rhythmic Theology Project 