I was invited to write an experimental essay on some doctrinal questions of the Toxic Temple for the Journal On Culture #17 - Trash. Apparently they liked our paper so much that we also made it onto the cover of their entire edition (see above). It was fun to write that thing - find the full text as OA here.
Trash as a Means of Religious Communication
Warm Greetings to the General Heathen Public from the Toxic Temple
Trash will outlive us all—it is here to stay much longer than we are. It thus can be understood as the modern, superficially secular prayer to the human afterlife. But what are we telling our ancestors with the gigantic heaps of trash we release into the oceans, bury in our mountains, and hide in the underground? We of the Toxic Temple sense that there is still a confusion, or, rather, a lack of profound reflection and cultivation, around this obvious, and—from a geological and cosmological perspective—central element of our culture. It is about time we cultivate and develop it, particularly because our societies might in fact only appear secular and non-religious on a superficial level. We of the Toxic Temple believe that our relationship—yet brute and uncultivated—to the most long-lasting trash we leave behind can only be understood and at the same time tamed as a form of religious communication. And this is why the Toxic Temple was founded and invites you to join our cause: to experimentally give you a room for the expression, cultivation, and veneration of a transcendent desire we moderns clearly seem to be having—although few heathens yet appear comfortable to speak about it or even seem to be able to understand it for themselves. The Toxic Temple is there for you to embrace your most dirty and wasteful desires!
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