Christophe D Ringer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6894793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christophe D Ringer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christophe D |
| FAMILY NAME | Ringer |
| SIGNATURE | RINGER C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chicago Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Restorative Justice and Lived Religion
Beyond Analogues and Analytics
This article argues that Frank Wilderson's Afropessimism as a analytic contains philosophical contradictions that can be resolved through currents in Afrofuturism. The article argues Wilderson's use of Orlando Patterson's concept of social death results in a performative contradiction as its claims deny the very possibility of their justification. The result is the inability to substantiate that Blackness as coterminous with Slaveness. The articl…
Necropolitics
Necropolitics: The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America explores the pernicious and persistent presence of mass incarceration in American public life. Christophe D. Ringer argues that mass incarceration persists largely because the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is a significant part of the religious meaning of America. This book traces representations from the Puritan era to the beginning of the War …
The Rupture of Identity and Identification in James Cone's Africana Theology of Existence
In this article, I argue that James Cone's Black Theology and Black Power inaugurates a theological project that contributes to the field of Africana philosophies of existence as conceptualized by Lewis Gordon. The article examines the importance of historical concrete situations, provides a phenomenological analysis of anti-Blackness as bad faith, and explores identity and identification in Cone's theological method. Finally, I argue that these …
Afrofuturism and the DNA of Biopolitics in the Black Public Sphere
This article explores the relationship of Afrofuturism to the intersection of race, religion and biopolitics within the Black public sphere. The article examines representations of emerging genomic technology in the film District 9 and the ethical questions regarding DNA surveillance and DNA phenotyping. These technologies are central to an emerging biopolitics that actively constructs a future racial order based upon the lasting inequalities of …
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Afrofuturism and the DNA of Biopolitics in the Black Public Sphere
This article explores the relationship of Afrofuturism to the intersection of race, religion and biopolitics within the Black public sphere. The article examines representations of emerging genomic technology in the film District 9 and the ethical questions regarding DNA surveillance and DNA phenotyping. These technologies are central to an emerging biopolitics that actively constructs a future racial order based upon the lasting inequalities of …
The Rupture of Identity and Identification in James Cone's Africana Theology of Existence
In this article, I argue that James Cone's Black Theology and Black Power inaugurates a theological project that contributes to the field of Africana philosophies of existence as conceptualized by Lewis Gordon. The article examines the importance of historical concrete situations, provides a phenomenological analysis of anti-Blackness as bad faith, and explores identity and identification in Cone's theological method. Finally, I argue that these …
Necropolitics
Necropolitics: The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America explores the pernicious and persistent presence of mass incarceration in American public life. Christophe D. Ringer argues that mass incarceration persists largely because the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is a significant part of the religious meaning of America. This book traces representations from the Puritan era to the beginning of the War …
Beyond Analogues and Analytics
This article argues that Frank Wilderson's Afropessimism as a analytic contains philosophical contradictions that can be resolved through currents in Afrofuturism. The article argues Wilderson's use of Orlando Patterson's concept of social death results in a performative contradiction as its claims deny the very possibility of their justification. The result is the inability to substantiate that Blackness as coterminous with Slaveness. The articl…
Restorative Justice and Lived Religion
Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work)