Tag: critical theory

Note: The term “radicalized” and acclimation

Some people like to preach, “don’t say your ‘radicalized’ just for being a human.” But that dismisses that larger project of acclimation going on in any culture that needs standing...

By Richard J Tilley December 16, 2025 Collective Ethical Patience, Community, Critical Thinking, Liberation, Rule of Law
An important part on my quest to speak to God, revisited

I did something I never thought I would do again. Though I had deleted these two websites, and before that I had hidden them from online access some time ago...

By Richard J Tilley December 14, 2025 Academia, Awe, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Liberation, Ontology, Personal, Theology, Violence
Feminist theology and the Turn towards publishing in feminism and capitalism

Last night I starting thinking about Revelation 16:15, and how it melded with the Tanakh, and, perhaps, the teaching of the time of Elijah before the period of judgement. I...

By Richard J Tilley December 5, 2025 Academia, Awe, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Liberation, The Other, Theology
I do not like a recent poem (cross-posted)

I do not like the poem “state house fairground,” even though I know it is quite good. I cannot tell you why I do not like it. I know intellectually...

By Richard J Tilley September 1, 2025 Academia, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Liberation, Literature, Poetry, United States
Note on a Completed Project: Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” (Parts I-III)

I recently completed a three-part series over at scifi.global on Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory”. It is completely based on a single paper that he wrote. I have...

By Richard J Tilley December 30, 2024 Academia, Community, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Degrowth, Fiction, Liberation, Science Fiction
Short Memo: (Expanding a repost) – Considerations for Seeing an Unseen God

I miss praying. It was very centering. Very calming. But I now follow a God who has never been seen or written about. Any attempt to create a spoken prayer...

By Richard J Tilley December 22, 2024 Awe, Community, Critical Thinking, Liberation, Ontology, Personal, Theology
Very Incomplete List, but Perhaps Some Helpful Feminist Readings

(Not all of these are citations in Chicago Style, why? Because there is enough information to show you were to find the book or article and I do not have...

By Richard J Tilley November 29, 2024 Academia, Community, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Liberation, Literature, Space and Place, Theology
Memo: “Degrowth needs more strategic planning.” – Dr. Federico Savini

From “Degrowth, legitimacy, and the foundational economy,” a Response to Yvonne Rydin common published in Planning Theory (2024) If we accept the scientific evidence that decoupling is not occurring at...

By Richard J Tilley September 22, 2024 Academia, Climate, Community, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Degrowth, Space and Place
A Note on Open Access

I recently came across a text, Anxious Geographies: Worlds of Social Anxiety, that like far too many scholarly texts is far overpriced. The book is $180 and the eBook is...

By Richard J Tilley June 12, 2024 Critical Theory, Open Access
Notes on Space and Place, Feminist Geography, and Related Texts

I. In Hortense J. Spillers essay, “Notes on an Alternative Model – Neither/Nor,” from Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, she surveys William Faulkner in...

By Richard J Tilley June 3, 2024 Critical Theory, Fiction, Literature, Ontology, Space and Place