Keanu Heydari
@keanuheydari.bsky.social
History Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan | PC(USA) Deacon | Modern Europe & Iran | Apocalyptic & New Testament Studies
There is no pure “outside” of power/knowledge that is meaningful for us. This means that practices of critique and refusal emerge inside historically specific dispositifs and not from an untouched libidinal nature. This is a theological claim as much as it is an analytic claim.
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
There is no pure “outside” of power/knowledge that is meaningful for us. This means that practices of critique and refusal emerge inside historically specific dispositifs and not from an untouched libidinal nature. This is a theological claim as much as it is an analytic claim.
“For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us….” – Eph. 2:14
December 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us….” – Eph. 2:14
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“In recent days, Ms Amsi's team was able to use heavy equipment to uncover more badly damaged manuscripts. She says it is now clear that the library's archive - seen as an invaluable record of Palestinian history, with many Ottoman records - was totally burned.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Like first aid for manuscripts': Recovery work begins at Gaza's war-damaged heritage sites
Palestinians are clearing rubble from archaeological sites, but restoration is hampered by Israeli restrictions on building materials.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“In recent days, Ms Amsi's team was able to use heavy equipment to uncover more badly damaged manuscripts. She says it is now clear that the library's archive - seen as an invaluable record of Palestinian history, with many Ottoman records - was totally burned.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“The Iranian Nazi community has a much larger footprint than the Arabic-speaking Nazi community, much of which is linked to the SUMKA party of Iran. Founded in 1952, SUMKA has a shadowy backstory, and alleged linkages to the CIA, along with ties to the assassinated President of Egypt Anwar Sadat.”
Resurrecting the Reich: Middle Eastern and North African Digital Nazi Communities - GNET
gnet-research.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
“The Iranian Nazi community has a much larger footprint than the Arabic-speaking Nazi community, much of which is linked to the SUMKA party of Iran. Founded in 1952, SUMKA has a shadowy backstory, and alleged linkages to the CIA, along with ties to the assassinated President of Egypt Anwar Sadat.”
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Sudan war: ‘As evidence mounts of the RSF’s barbarous attacks on civilians and cultural institutions, a clearer picture is emerging of an ongoing genocide, backed by the UAE and tacitly enabled by the UK. The comparisons with Gaza are chilling.’
Britain is allowing another Gaza to unfold in Sudan
As RSF violence intensifies, monitoring groups have witnessed a surge in UK arms sales to the group's primary sponsor: the UAE
www.middleeasteye.net
December 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Sudan war: ‘As evidence mounts of the RSF’s barbarous attacks on civilians and cultural institutions, a clearer picture is emerging of an ongoing genocide, backed by the UAE and tacitly enabled by the UK. The comparisons with Gaza are chilling.’
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fairly obvious that there's a strand of people who refuse to acknowledge the connection between the politics they cultivated and the world we live in
Sorry, Helen Lewis says it’s stupid to dismiss someone’s opinions because of their identity? Helen Fucking Lewis? How can she post with all of that glass surrounding her in her house?
"but i was a based heterodox thinker" seems to be the rallying cry of the reactionary centre when encountering actual Schmittian politics
December 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
fairly obvious that there's a strand of people who refuse to acknowledge the connection between the politics they cultivated and the world we live in
Today was a remarkably bad day.
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Today was a remarkably bad day.
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Ahem
December 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Ahem
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December 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I've been reading some of the responses to Kevin's post & I'm quite disappointed by the ambient theological illiteracy of our cultural moment. In ecumenical Christianity, the Incarnation occurs at the moment of Jesus' conception by the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb.
ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I've been reading some of the responses to Kevin's post & I'm quite disappointed by the ambient theological illiteracy of our cultural moment. In ecumenical Christianity, the Incarnation occurs at the moment of Jesus' conception by the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb.
This is a fascinating take. I do wonder if it holds true for more marginal cases, like in my own research on far right-wing Iranian ultra-nationalists, pan-Iranists, and fascists from the 1950s-1980s. I do think Iranian “Aryanism” presents something of a conundrum for the “contraction” hypothesis.
And here’s the thing: Aryanism was exclusive in a way that whiteness isn’t. Whiteness is porous, expanding to include new groups (the Irish, Italians, etc.) Aryanism contracts, obsessively policing its borders.
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is a fascinating take. I do wonder if it holds true for more marginal cases, like in my own research on far right-wing Iranian ultra-nationalists, pan-Iranists, and fascists from the 1950s-1980s. I do think Iranian “Aryanism” presents something of a conundrum for the “contraction” hypothesis.
If the church is just a well-defined discourse coalition with rituals, if the totality of God is a “story” (Jenson & Co.), if the telos of dogmatics is ultimately narrative, what is uniquely Christian about all of that? How does that translate to us being God’s free and responsible creatures?
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If the church is just a well-defined discourse coalition with rituals, if the totality of God is a “story” (Jenson & Co.), if the telos of dogmatics is ultimately narrative, what is uniquely Christian about all of that? How does that translate to us being God’s free and responsible creatures?
Dogmatics is the critical reflection by the church on its own proclamation in light of the living Word of God. It never becomes a completed “system.” It remains a fallible, revisable activity carried out within the church’s life of hearing and obeying Jesus Christ.
December 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Dogmatics is the critical reflection by the church on its own proclamation in light of the living Word of God. It never becomes a completed “system.” It remains a fallible, revisable activity carried out within the church’s life of hearing and obeying Jesus Christ.
Ash-
glory behind
you threeway
hands.
The cast-in-front-of-you, from
the East, terrible.
No one
bears witness for the
witness.
– From Celan’s “Ashglory” (tr. Joris)
glory behind
you threeway
hands.
The cast-in-front-of-you, from
the East, terrible.
No one
bears witness for the
witness.
– From Celan’s “Ashglory” (tr. Joris)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ash-
glory behind
you threeway
hands.
The cast-in-front-of-you, from
the East, terrible.
No one
bears witness for the
witness.
– From Celan’s “Ashglory” (tr. Joris)
glory behind
you threeway
hands.
The cast-in-front-of-you, from
the East, terrible.
No one
bears witness for the
witness.
– From Celan’s “Ashglory” (tr. Joris)
A page from “The Miracle Play Of Hasan And Husain” by Lewis Pelley from 1879, which featured his translations of various Ta'ziyeh.
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A page from “The Miracle Play Of Hasan And Husain” by Lewis Pelley from 1879, which featured his translations of various Ta'ziyeh.
“If the success of a drama is to be measured by the effects which it produces upon the people for whom it is composed, or upon the audiences before whom it is represented, no play has ever surpassed the tragedy known in the Mussulman world as that of Hasan and Husain.” – Lewis Pelly
December 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
“If the success of a drama is to be measured by the effects which it produces upon the people for whom it is composed, or upon the audiences before whom it is represented, no play has ever surpassed the tragedy known in the Mussulman world as that of Hasan and Husain.” – Lewis Pelly
Interesting note on the roots of the Iranian fascist party (SUMKA) and the pan-Iranism of Dariush Forouhar. From Abrahamian’s “Iran Between Two Revolutions.” Apologies for no ALT text.
December 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Interesting note on the roots of the Iranian fascist party (SUMKA) and the pan-Iranism of Dariush Forouhar. From Abrahamian’s “Iran Between Two Revolutions.” Apologies for no ALT text.
What do you do when the paper of record is collaborationist?
Such bullshit, fascism-abetting framing by the NYTimes. Authoritarians like Trump cultivate and then make use of xenophobic racism and cruelty—something that has very little at all to do with immigration realities. Stop giving liberal cover to this fascist rhetoric.
December 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
What do you do when the paper of record is collaborationist?
Constitutional republicanism-maxxing.
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Constitutional republicanism-maxxing.
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Not everyone who says to me "Woke! Woke!" will enter the kingdom of heterodoxy.
December 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Not everyone who says to me "Woke! Woke!" will enter the kingdom of heterodoxy.
me when they ask me what my Enneagram is
December 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
me when they ask me what my Enneagram is
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"but i was a based heterodox thinker" seems to be the rallying cry of the reactionary centre when encountering actual Schmittian politics
December 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"but i was a based heterodox thinker" seems to be the rallying cry of the reactionary centre when encountering actual Schmittian politics
Best idea I’ve seen in a while.
Do we need a Protestant Reformation for the US Constitution?
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Best idea I’ve seen in a while.
We should come back to this essay from 2018 by Adam Serwer. “The cruelty is the point” captures well what I’m trying to get at by invoking Beckett, Ionesco, and Artaud with the theater of the absurd and the theater of cruelty but applied to our political moment.
The Cruelty Is the Point
Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.
www.theatlantic.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
We should come back to this essay from 2018 by Adam Serwer. “The cruelty is the point” captures well what I’m trying to get at by invoking Beckett, Ionesco, and Artaud with the theater of the absurd and the theater of cruelty but applied to our political moment.
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This is why the President should never use the R slur.
It emboldened his base. I’ve seen a dramatic surge in people calling me that word (and worse).
Walz’s kids shouldn’t have to deal with this.
No one should.
It’s vile ableism & it’s dangerous.
Walz has a disabled son.
MAGA has no bottom.
It emboldened his base. I’ve seen a dramatic surge in people calling me that word (and worse).
Walz’s kids shouldn’t have to deal with this.
No one should.
It’s vile ableism & it’s dangerous.
Walz has a disabled son.
MAGA has no bottom.
December 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is why the President should never use the R slur.
It emboldened his base. I’ve seen a dramatic surge in people calling me that word (and worse).
Walz’s kids shouldn’t have to deal with this.
No one should.
It’s vile ableism & it’s dangerous.
Walz has a disabled son.
MAGA has no bottom.
It emboldened his base. I’ve seen a dramatic surge in people calling me that word (and worse).
Walz’s kids shouldn’t have to deal with this.
No one should.
It’s vile ableism & it’s dangerous.
Walz has a disabled son.
MAGA has no bottom.