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Book SynopsisThe book is both an introduction to a thinker, Gilles Deleuze, whose current influence on multiple sectors of the humanities and social sciences arguably exceeds that of any other, and a book-length demonstration of the ramifications of Deleuzian thought for critical biblical scholarship.
Trade ReviewArguably the most prominent and prolific critic when it comes to reading the Bible with theory, Moore has done it again with what he calls 'post-poststructuralist' theory. * Tat-siong Benny Liew *
Yet another prodigy from Moore's cabinet of wonders. * A K M Adam *
Stephen D. Moore produces an impressively generative approach to Deleuze (and Guattari) and affect. * Gregory J. Seigworth *
The Bible after Deleuze contributes to this growing literature by reading the New Testament through the lens of Deleuzian theory. * Brent Adkins, The Heythrop Journal *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations INTRODELEUZE (who and why?) Deleuze in Theory The Box and the Machine The Deleuze Affect ELand the Bible? 1. TEXT (the Bible without organs) Part I: At the Bible Study with Foucault and Deleuze What Is a Biblical Author? Knowledge, Power, Desire Part II: At the Bible Study with Deleuze and Guattari In Flux, in Assemblage The Book of Order-Words A Bible That Expresses Everything While Communicating Nothing How Do You Make Yourself a Bible without Organs? 2. BODY (why there are no bodies in the Bible, and how to read them anyway) Part I: The Eclipse of the Ancient Body Bodies Discoursed and Performed Bodies in a Noumenal Night Part II: The Ponderous Weight of the Incorporeal Synoptic Body Nonrepresenting the Synoptic Body What Is a Body When It Is Incorporeal? The Mundane Miracle of Reading (Everywhere Enacted Daily) 3. SEX (a thousand tiny sexes, a trillion tiny Jesuses) Part I: The Deleuzian Queer Desiring and Naming The Proletariat of Eros (Producing the Product Society Cannot Want) Part II: Queer Mark The Coming, and Becoming, of Christ The Crucified Body without Organs The Risen Body without Organs 4. RACE (Jesus and the white faciality machine) Part I: The Matter of Race White Light Dark Matter, I Jesus in Jackboots Dark Matter, II Is Race Structured Like a Language? Part II: Race and Face Assembling Race Facing Race Defacing Race 5. POLITICS (beastly boasts, apocalyptic affects) Unmethodological Prelude Tweets from the Bottomless Abyss Larval Fascisms, Insect Apocalypses Horrible Hope Post-Beast Postscript Index
