sologdin’s Reviews > Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity > Status Update

unction signs not what will later be called a life eternal beyond death but the entry into death as into a finite parousia that is infinitely differed or deferred. This is the entry into incommensurable inadequation. In this sense, every dying one is a messiah, and every messiah a dying one. The dying one is no longer a mortal as distinct from the immortals. [...] All unction is thus extreme

atheism is the only possible ethos, the only dignity of the subject (if I give this word the value of praxis rather than that of reflexivity), and that this same atheism leaves destitute or threatening the order of the in-common, the order of “culture,” of the “together.” It is a matter of nothing less here, ultimately (if there is an ultimately), than the unappeased demand that was called “communism.”