Daniel Silliman


Mar 1, 2010

When winter ends, or appears to



Planet at war
Zizek's internet
Weoponizing Mozart
The coming qat crisis
Don't pity Roger Ebert
The new math of poetry
Social life of the gerund
How Millennial are you?
Working in the Shadows
Matt Taibbi's ego monster
Willie Mays, the say hey kid
Harmonicas and Hezbollah
It's George Wallace's GOP now
Chasing the myth of moonshine
Old English is charming, but brutal
Interview with the editor of Bookslut
Re-evaluating DeLillo's White Noise
3,000 years of nonviolent resistance
The ontological status of stereotypes
Zizek and the blank spaces left for God
What followed the killing for one soldier
New Continental Philosophy of Religion
Does the media vet presidential contenders?
Wounded vets prep for political campaigning
Taking exception to American exceptionalism
Torture now the institutionalized opinion of the GOP
Experimental crime fiction: Robert Coover's 2nd person Noir
How Google uses Sassure's idea (via Wittgenstein) of language
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Daniel Silliman teaches American Religion and Culture at the University of Heidelberg's HCA. His research is focused on the ways Christians have engaged with and conceptualized culture in 20th and 21st century America. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on Evangelical relationships to pluralism and the secular as it is represented in contemporary faith fiction.

He has an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Tübingen and a B.A. in Philosophy from Hillsdale College.

He also worked for several years as a newspaper reporter, reporting on crime in Atlanta's Southern Crescent.

He lives in Germany with his wife.

He posts here three or four times a week.

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