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Rejecting ‘The World,’ Embracing Possible Worlds: Marika Rose, Ilia Delio, and New Materialism Towards Entangled-Abolitional Apocalypticism (opens the original)
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Chapter 3 - Entangled-Abolitional Apocalypse, or Intra-Apocalypse: Rose, Delio, New Materialism and Similarities with Plastic Apocalypticism The first two chapters of this work explored the necessity, influences, and limitations of Marika Rose’s abolitional apocalypse, as well as the possibility of the new materialist and new materialist-adjacent works of Ilia Delio, Karen Barad, and Donna Haraway to augment it in ways that circumvent these limitations. This final chapter will re-centre Rose’s a
Rejecting ‘The World,’ Embracing Possible Worlds: Marika Rose, Ilia Delio, and New Materialism Towards Entangled-Abolitional Apocalypticism (opens the original)
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As discussed in the previous chapter, Marika Rose’s Abolitional Apocalypticism takes seriously the calls of apocalyptic political theology and Black apocalypticism to end The World and employs abolitionist thinking in striving to abolish The World. However, Rose does not create a plan or framework that is detailed or explicit enough to be practically or effectively applied beyond non-reformist reforms and the endless “task of knowing ourselves and doing it on purpose.”[1] This chapter, then, wil
Rejecting ‘The World,’ Embracing Possible Worlds: Marika Rose, Ilia Delio, and New Materialism Towards Entangled-Abolitional Apocalypticism (opens the original)
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AcknowledgementsI would like to acknowledge Dr Tommy Lynch, who has been nothing but supportive and kind throughout the 3 years of my degree, both as my personal tutor and my dissertation supervisor. Who took all my chaos, neurodivergence, chronic pain and fatigue, self-doubt, and crying in stride and supported me tirelessly.Thanks for reading Whimsical Philosophy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my wo
Fibromyalgia and the First Friend: How Chronic Pain and Fatigue led me to an Open and Relational God (opens the original)
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IntroductionFor 17 years of my life, aged two - nineteen, my conservative evangelical church taught me that God was omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), omnipresent (existing everywhere) and omnibenevolent (all-loving). My church also taught me that God had a divine plan, and that They[1] caused or allowed people to suffer to fulfil this plan. This God was in ultimate control of everything. This chapter follows my theological journey from believing in this God to believing that G
Visceral Becoming: Fantastical and Horrifying Eco Poems (opens the original)
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Focus on the BeeA bee comes into view,Enters your car.MajesticUglyEthereally concrete.Thanks for reading Whimsical Philosophy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<
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