On the Touch-Event: Theopolitical Encounters.
This article addresses the 'touch-event' as a mediated affective encounter that pivots around a tension between intimacy and distance, seduction and sovereignty, investment and withdrawal. Through a rereading of the Pauline event of conversion to Christianity, it argues that an analysis of the evolv...
| Published in: | Social Analysis Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 81 - 100 |
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Berghahn Books
Dec2020
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