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Chris Nelson painted the image, “Beyond the Pleasure Principle,” that is on the cover of this book. In this statement, Nelson explains his relationship to and investments in Radical Theology. He describes his experience of being transformed by reading the work of Jacques Lacan. He describes his own abstract art as a kind of radical theological expression of lack.
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John Cage, in his 1949 “Lecture on Nothing,” published in Silence (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1961), 109–126.
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Alain Badiou, “Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art,” Lacanian Ink 22 (2003), online. http://www.lacan.com/issue22.php.
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Nelson, C. (2018). Artist Statement. In: Rodkey, C., Miller, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96595-6_55
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