Recovering Substrate from Judith Butler’s Symbolic Lawsmearing and Idolatrous Colonization of Sexual Time Douglas Blake Olds April 8, 2026 “ The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual. ” --Monique Wittig cited by Butler (1999, 3) “ Kinship ceases to be thought in terms of blood relations or naturalized social arrangements but becomes the effect of a linguistic set of relations. ” (Butler 2000, 41) “ Being called a name is also one of the conditions by which a subject is constituted in language. ” (Butler 2021, 2) ABSTRACT This essay advances a conative metaphysics of substrate, time, and covenantal accountability in order to repudiate and anathematize Judith Butler’s gender queering as a lawgiving regime of pagan inscription onto bodies. It notes the thick claim that reality is disclosed through the bearing of entropic stress into repair for others, not through performative intelligibility, discursive ...
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An Iconoclast’s Poietic Apocatastasis: Literary Merit and Metaphysical Fracture Riding the Eschaton Douglas Blake Olds, March 30, 2026 [N.B. COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] A persistent error in “modern” literary judgment treats formal intensity as spiritually and metaphysically neutral if not hidebound. Fragmentary pressure, charged incompletion, montage, suggestiveness, interruption, tonal instability, and aphorism (or avoidance of which) count as marks of high literary merit without adequate interrogation of the metaphysical assumptions they carry. Yet form never remains final in...
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( Sermon for Palm Sunday 2026:) From Chronologies of Disjunct Appearance in Separated Space to Walking with the Continuing Presence of Opened Eternal Time-Place Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds, (PC[USA] Ret.) Core Texts: Psalm 118:19–29; John 12:12–19; Ezekiel, esp. chs. 37–47 with support from Leviticus 23:40; Matthew 21; Zechariah 4- 9; Luke 21; 2 Thessalonians 2; Isaiah 34; Hebrews 5:13-14; Deut. 6:4-9; Matt. 22:32;37 Palm Sunday arrives this year with a crisis of interpretation because it is a crisis of time. Palm Sunday is not first a pageant we make for children, a scene-patter of religious excitement for the festal onlookers, a sentimental threshold before the Passion bound up with the zodiac’s procession of start. To interpret Palm Sunday rightly, we must begin earlier than Jerusalem, earlier than the waving of branches--to begin where Scripture often begins when God is about to reorder history: with the disturbance of the heavens. Reports since Thanksgiv...