From Star Trek to Star Wars, popular culture is replete with images and signs of what might be called theological bad infinity -that is, a law of endless binarism, of recurrent dualities of good and evil, the one (Anakin Skywalker) turning into the other (Darth Vader). I want to interrupt this disseminatory flow, in order to investigate how this essentially pagan cosmology -of replicating balance, of law s symbolic harmony -is challenged, even undone, by an alternative, radical Christian

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... y as embodied in the figure of Batman-as-Christological type. In so doing, I will use popular culture (specifically Batman Begins) to propound a theology, as well as legality, of the Real, drawing upon such sources as Slavoj i ek,