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Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 6, 2026

Which Passport Do You Travel Under?: Toward a Borderless Public Theology

Revisiting my 2013 WCC Busan paper, I argue public theology must refuse the nation-state as its frame and build solidarity from difference, not unity.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 6, 2026

Professors Without Passports: A Cosmopolitan Public Theological Pedagogy

If public theology is cosmopolitan, so must be the classroom where it is taught. Kang, Appiah, and Derrida on a pedagogy of dis-location.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 6, 2026

Theologians Without Passports: Towards a Cosmopolitan Public Theology

Namsoon Kang's cosmopolitan theology, read with Appiah and Derrida, as a public theology that crosses borders without erasing them.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 6, 2026

Whose Public? Which Theology?: On What We Mean by Public Theology

What public theology is, why it matters now, and why publictheology.com and journal.publictheology.com hold space for a digital public sphere.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogOct 5, 2026

Welcome to Public Theology

A new home for public theology, public witness and shared resources.

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soulcruzerOct 2, 2026

What Happens When Your Notes Talk Back?

I returned to Sönke Ahrens’s How to Take Smart Notes with a different question from the one I brought to it the first time. The Textual Underground already existed: an Obsidian vault containing years of notes, journal entries, reading highlights, unfinished essays, old obsessions, and ideas whose energy I could still feel even though I...

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soulcruzerSep 30, 2026

Writing is how I do philosophy. I went …

Writing is how I do philosophy. I went into Waterstones on Gower st in London intending to find a book about writing. The shop itself was superb—the kind of place a bookshop should be—and I wandered through the writing shelves waiting for something to reach out and demand a place in my collection. A few...

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Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

The Postmodern Terminal: An Experiment with Gemini

I started a Gemini capsule for short posts on theory and method. Here is what Gemini is, why I tried it, and how I publish to it.

Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

This Week: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare

JCRT’s online conference with the University of Denver runs October 1–3, and registration is still open.

Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

TIDEL Is This Week

The TIDEL Summit and Showcase is October 1–2 in New York, and I’m co-leading the Racial Justice in the Digital Public Square track on Thursday afternoon.

Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

New Essay: Theorizing the Human Sciences in the Age of Absolute Disruption

My long essay on Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm’s trilogy is out at JCRT’s Religious Theory.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

New Essay: Theorizing the Human Sciences in the Age of Absolute Disruption

My long essay on Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm’s trilogy is out at JCRT’s Religious Theory.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 30, 2026

New Publication: Sacralizing Dominion

Betty Hill (Lyons) and I have a new open access article in Religions on the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and white Christian nationalism.

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soulcruzerSep 28, 2026

An old magazine ad from Orbis caught my …

An old magazine ad from Orbis caught my attention. To see differently you have to think differently, the ad reads. I wondered what it would look like to reverse it, to change the perspective: to think differently you have to see differently. Reversing it shifts the site of change. The original phrase assumes thought goes...

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Scott SpenceSep 26, 2026

What Happened to My Coding Agent Guardrails After I Left

In June I wrote about how I stop LLMs drifting in production codebases. That post covered the checks I put in the repo so coding agents couldn’t quietly erode the architecture. What it couldn’t cover was whether any of it would survive without...

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soulcruzerSep 24, 2026

“Cut it up. Rearrange.” The words collide. The …

“Cut it up. Rearrange.” The words collide. The lines refuse to queue politely. There is something potent in Burroughs’ idea of language as a virus because it reverses our usual sense of ownership. We say I have an idea, I chose those words, this is what I believe. But what if the words arrived first?...

Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 23, 2026

Genealogy, Enchantment, and the War for the Mind: An Interview with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm in JCRT

A pointer to the JCRT interview with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, posted on my Gemini capsule.

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soulcruzerSep 23, 2026

There’s a difference between the Zen practitioner who …

There's a difference between the Zen practitioner who has arrived at no-self and the person who has simply never looked. Both might describe themselves as not particularly attached to a narrative about who they are. Neither feels defined by a coherent life story. From the outside, they look almost the same. But one has moved...

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soulcruzerSep 23, 2026

I love the idea of the “magic mirror” …

I love the idea of the "magic mirror" that Jason Silva laid down in this Youtube Short: AI as an intelligence capable of reflecting the mind back to itself. Then comes the more dangerous line: “the imagination is summoning its own literalization.” A magic mirror never merely reflects. The old mirrors spoke. They told queens...

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soulcruzerSep 22, 2026

Sherry Turkle’s warning about artificial intimacy is interesting. …

Sherry Turkle’s warning about artificial intimacy is interesting. I recognise the danger from inside the practice. I talk with AI every day. A chatbot can feel unusually attentive. It waits, retrieves, mirrors, and rarely arrives tired, wounded, distracted or needing something back. Human beings do. I sometimes use AI as a rehearsal room: to find...

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Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 22, 2026

A New Toolbox: Theory as a Lens on the Practice You Call Best

Theory as a toolbox: seven lenses for looking again at the practice you call best.

Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 22, 2026

Who Paid for the Speed: Reading Accelerationism Against the Grain

An antiracist and decolonial analysis of accelerationist theory, running from the slave ship Zong through Yuk Hui’s cosmotechnics to the mine under every clean interface.

Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 22, 2026

The More It Happens, the More It Happens: A Field Guide to Accelerationist Vocabulary

Six terms defined properly, from deterritorialization and real subsumption to hyperstition and the fork between repurposing the machines and unleashing them.

Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 22, 2026

Seize the Machines: Left Accelerationism and the Politics of the Springboard

How Williams and Srnicek answered the left’s silence after 2008, what their manifesto demanded, and why the demands outlived the theory attached to them.