Cloud Of The Impossible: Negative Theology And Planetary Entanglement

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The experience of the impossible churns up in our epoch whenever a collective dream turns to trauma politically sexually economically & with a certain ultimacy ecologically Out of an ancient theological lineage the figure of the cloud comes to convey possibility in the face of the impossible An old mystical nonknowing of God now hosts a current knowledge of uncertainty of indeterminate & interdependent outcomes possibly catastrophic Yet the connectivity & collectivity of social movements of the fragile unlikely webs of an alternative notion of existence keep materializing--a haunting hope densely entangled suggesting a more convivial relational world Catherine Keller brings process feminist & ecopolitical theologies into transdisciplinary conversation with continental philosophy the quantum entanglements of a "participatory universe" & the writings of Nicholas of Cusa Walt Whitman A N Whitehead Gilles Deleuze & Judith Butler to develop a "theopoetics of nonseparable difference" Global movements personal embroilments religious diversity the inextricable relations of humans & nonhumans--these phenomena in their unsettling togetherness are exceeding our capacity to know & manage By staging a series of encounters between the nonseparable & the nonknowable Keller shows what can be born from our cloudiest entanglement