Clarity is elusive because we often collapse the overturning into thinking critically or engaging in political, social, ideological, or theological critique of the prevailing orders. We forget that critique itself is being overturned, turned right side up within the new purpose of life together. Critique must aim at communion. The overturning is wi

His fragment work coalesced around his body concealing him inside white self-sufficient masculinist form through which he was imagined as one with his field, homoousios, of the same substance as his discipline.

Fragment in this first sense is a reality of being creatures who can only apprehend with our senses—in bites, in touches, in smells, in sounds, and in focused but shifting sight. We live in the reality of these pieces where the world is always too much for us to hold all at once. We creatures live in pieces, and we come to know our redemption in pi

a contrast life aimed at communion.

That desire to see a changed world must be allowed to find its connection to the desire for one another.

Whiteness invites us to imagine that we become visible to ourselves and others only through its narration of our lives. This was, however, much more than a thought exercise gone terribly wrong. It was inherent to the way Europeans transformed the world into private property and reorganized intellectual life within their cognitive empire.

There is a third fragment born of the work of reduction. This is the commodity fragment.

faculty line up their intellectual loves with their desire to instill their particular vision of orthodoxy or their desire to form students in a theological radicalism that they believe will free us from the problems of orthodoxy.

These two ways of educating born of the master’s house have never been mutually exclusive. Both education as master formation and education as emancipatory weapon aim at cultivating mastery—the freedom of mastery (moral formation) or the mastery of freedom (emancipation)—and both silence the sound of a door opening to a life together, toward a form