Simone Kotva on Energy, Mysticism and Ecology
Simone Kotva is Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Gothenburg, working at the intersection of Christian Theology, Continental Philosophy, and ecological thought. She is the author of Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy (Bloomsbury 2020) and co- editor and co-translator of Félix Ravaisson, Fragments on Philosophy and Religion (Bloomsbury 2025). Her forthcoming monograph Ecologies of Ecstasy: […]
The Aneconomic Energetics of Deconstruction
Jacques Derrida’s work on deconstruction is regularly understood as depicting a world of forces in conflict, in which all entities and identities emerge from the play of the tensions between force and counter-force, power and counter-power. Much more rarely, however, have any attempts been made to explain Derrida’s ‘ontology’ or his ‘physics,’ if you can […]