A little theory of powerful things
To which
gods shall we turn in these times of
wrath?
It is our spiritual powers
that have defined human life until now:
art, religion, philosophy, the idea of
nature.
Today it is scientific
politics.
But what are our temples
now? To which places do we carry the
sacrifice? And who will play the
sacrifice?
The colour red
It is said that red is the colour of anger.
God′s people need discernment so they can approve the things that are excellent and be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ. This is what the Bible says. But what does religion actually mean?
According to Agamben, the term religio does not come from reli-gare, as is generally assumed, but from relegere, which refers to the conscientiousness and attention that should be paid to relations with gods. Religio is not that which connects humans and gods, but that which watches over the fact that they remain distinct from each other.
Karl Marx already wrote in Capital about the fetish character of the commodity and its mystery: "At first glance, a commodity seems to be a trivial thing. But if you look more closely, you can recognise its metaphysical subtleties and theological quirks in the commodity.
We too have become commodity
Later Guy Debord has found in the concept of the spectacle the point at which one can leverage contemporary society.
- William Pietz