taddelay@gmail.com

My latest book Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change (Verso, 2024) examines emerging types of latent climate denial and consequences, with attention to violence against migrants, expropriation of indigenous lands for carbon credits, challenges in the energy transition, limits to carbon dioxide removal technologies, and the stubborn impasse of political economy. Read an excerpt at Protean Magazine. I also produced a 3 episode Future of Denial podcast. Praise for Future of Denial:

“Tad DeLay is one of the most important and disquieting theorists of consciousness and politics writing today. His work is indispensable.” – China Miéville, author of October

“An impressive, beautifully written and unsparing book. DeLay’s precise, controlled fury lends itself to mournful ironies and asperous satire as he brutally exposes the sources of denial and weighs the options for a future beyond denial. Not a word is wasted in this vital intervention.” – Richard Seymour, author of The Twittering Machine

My prior book Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want? explores trends and underlying desires of the most quintessentially American faith—a theological improvisation around white reaction to school integration, civil rights, and changing demographics. In five chapters—Against Future, Against Knowledge, Against Sexuality, Against Reality, and Against Society—the book conjoins history and psychoanalysis to explore a dangerous religio-political coalition. There is also a ten-part podcast of Against.

I’m also the author of The Cynic & the Fool: The Unconscious in Theology & Politics and God Is Unconscious: Psychoanalysis & Theology. I’m interested in the intersections of environmental humanities, critical theory, psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and religion. Beyond my research, I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baltimore City Community College.

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