@article{Sauka, author = {Sauka, Anne}, title = {A lack of meaning? Reactive nihilism and processual materiality}, series = {Approaching Religion, Vol. 10 (No. 2, November 2020), pp. 125-140.}, journal = {Approaching Religion, Vol. 10 (No. 2, November 2020), pp. 125-140.}, abstract = {This article explores the >lack of meaning< in contemporary society as a consequence of Western dualist thought paradigms and ontologies, via Gilles Deleuze's concept of >reactivenihilism< following the colloquial murder of God. The article then explores processual and new materialist approaches in the understanding of the lived and carnal self, arguing for immanent and senseful materiality as an ethical platform for religious, environmental, and societal solidarity for tomorrow. For the theoretical justification of the processual approach in understanding the enfleshed self, the article employs John Dupr{\´e}'s processual approach in the philosophy of biology, as well as Astrida Neimani's critical posthumanism, and contextualizes these considerations with Erich Fromm's ethical distinction of being and having.}, language = {en} } @article{Sauka, author = {Sauka, Anne}, title = {The Nature of Our Becoming: Genealogical Perspectives}, series = {Le foucaldien, Vol. 6 (No. 1, 2020), pp. 1-30.}, journal = {Le foucaldien, Vol. 6 (No. 1, 2020), pp. 1-30.}, abstract = {In the light of Philipp Sarasin's work in Darwin und Foucault: Genealogie und Geschichte im Zeitalter der Biologie, the article delineates a genealogically articulated naturally produced culture and a cultured nature and discusses the genealogical implications of a carnal, becoming self in a world that could rightly be justified >as an aesthetical phenomenon.< The article demonstrates the historicity and processual materiality as a conceptual platform for a combination of the notions of experienced carnality and a socially constructed body, demonstrating such a historically embedded carnal body as a binding agent for the >social constructivist< and >biologist< approaches in sciences. Thus, the article builds a framework for the articulation of senseful, processual materiality on the backdrop of a nature-culture continuum via genealogy, suggesting the necessity for change of tone in the communication of human and life sciences via the understanding of a culturally endowed biology.}, language = {en} }