David Olali

With a specialty that re-(de)-centers abscesses of scripturality, ontology of comparativity, and cogno-analytical investigations of the human-- as masters of, in/for/about meaning-(un)making, David's intellectual investments unravel the "scripture" --to scriptural--phenom in quotidian life. His scholarly endeavors investigate expansive rhetorical devices which, overdetermined, are (mis)labelled-scriptures. 

In terms of his broader scholarly interests, David re-centers the human within psycho-economic and socio-cultural landscapes which modes of being/becoming. His ongoing research offers opportunities that both invite and challenge (us into) new creative, critical, and reflexive thinking around histories of meaning, meaninglessness, and meaningfulness, whether of affective religions or of reconstructed irreligiosities, by locating viable intersections that (could) exist between religious and non-religious scriptures and their tropes of violence, as domains for negotiations in/of, or contest between and/or against human bodies as sites for the re- and/or de-embodiments of categories that inflect/reflect/deflect psychosocial and political authorials.

He is the Founding Director/President of the Comparative Heritage Project, a transdisciplinary research project that theorizes heritage formation, heritage promulgation, and heritage proliferation as the core loci of human existence (more at <https://comparativeheritage.org>). He is the promulgator of the Comparative Complex Theory--or CCT for short.