The Messianic Commons

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Messianic stories run through the Abrahamic faiths and many others besides. Messianism is the religion of the oppressed; the faith of those whose struggle compels them toward alternative futures. Messianism has also become a watchword for visionaries of radical politics far beyond confessional religious spaces. These sketches explore how we might encounter ourselves differently in the dim light of that illusive figure: how we might reimagine ourselves as ecological creatures economic agents and as beings who dance differently with power and life amidst the many threads of messianic folklore.</span></p>