Slow Burn: Quarantine Edition

After a political rupture, rituals of repetition can attempt to restore normalcy—or throw it into question.

For Jews, divine forgiveness is a hard bargain.

What are sacred objects for?

Does the Tabernacle represent God’s effort to institutionalize the energy of a riot?

Terrible violence will unfold while the Israelites are kept busy with lines and lines of civic code.

What does it mean that we do not consent to our ethical obligations?

For the enslaved, the formerly enslaved, and the otherwise surveilled, wandering is not simply unproductive movement; it is self-possessed, erratic, wayward action.

How do you read a plague?

For Freud, “chosenness” was a psychopathological fantasy in need of explanation.

What if, through this crack in the text, older gods return?

The Bible is long and the length of our self-isolation uncertain, so we decided to read the Book of Exodus.