Avantgarde Art and Radical Material Theology: A Manifesto

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Radical material theology and the Earth
	Material sacrality
	Rethinking art with Liubov Popova
	Popova and the life of construction
	Disposition of the chapters
	Notes
Chapter 1 The backdrop: Theology of art from Tillich to Popova
	Tillich’s concrete concern
	Objects of not-knowing
	Western viewing habits
	Unity and diversity
	Notes
Chapter 2 Released from Eden
	We are cyborgs
	From creation to construction
	The cyborg constructor
	Theology constructors
	Notes
Chapter 3 The things you own
	A new everyday
	Art, ritual and second technology
	Beyond comrade and fetish
	Commodity as phantasmagoria
	Second theology
	Notes
Chapter 4 The Christ machine
	From face to machine
	Haraway, Deleuze and dogs
	The stage machine
	The celestial machine
	Notes
Chapter 5 Last thing(ie)s: Eschatology out of joint
	The near and far
	A theology of place
	Radical liturgical theology
	Timemessiness and spacemessiness
	The Christianity machine
	Notes
Conclusion: Second theology: a manifesto
	1. For second theology, construction is the only given
	2. Second theology is always political
	3. Construction works with an infinity of screws, planks, circuit boards, inherited ideas and hands
	4. Christ is a machine
	5. Trees make us take off our shoes, as do compasses, and critters, cyborgs, faces and stuff
	6. Eschatology is about the thingies next to us, because they are always the last
	7. God is a thingie
	8. Finitude enables construction
Bibliography
Index