“A key to understanding why Lockdown America rises today is to consider our present system of punishment, particularly U.S. mass incarceration and… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“A key to understanding why Lockdown America rises today is to consider our present system of punishment, particularly U.S. mass incarceration and police repression,… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“The crucified God takes believers on a journey into earth, into its pain and suffering, and finds in that journey not the holiness of… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“Daily living is replete with ideologies rationalizing the sacrifice of racially stigmatized, surplus populations.” — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“We have a system of terrorizing punishment meted out directly to more than two million people in prison and to another five million or… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“Moreover, the industrial revolution in the United States, as in most of Europe, depended significantly upon a slave trade that involved elaborate mechanisms for… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, two contemporary theorists of U.S. empire, have also suggested that the root of contemporary U.S. imperial abuses “should be… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“At its best, the expression crucified God reminds us that the power of all life, God, faces and suffers some of the worst that… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“Critique of the 1 percent’s domination predates, it should be recalled, the “Occupy” movement’s popularizing of the notion. In fact, Martin Luther King, Jr.… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“The nascent capitalism of modernity is a sacrificial economy that worships money as fetish and sacrifices the “subjective corporeality of the Indian and African… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“In short, for supplying and controlling both natural resources (oil) essential for U.S. economic life, and also for nurturing U.S. group identity, the deaths… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image