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Recent Ruminations
Faith deconstruction isn’t really deconstruction… until it is. Which is annoying.
by
Michael Barros
Published: May 27, 2024
Keywords: Deconstruction, Faith deconstruction, Derrida, Christian deconstruction
About Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs): How a structured, voluntary, and temporary checkout from reality is necessary for the human mind – if not a survival skill.
by
Victor Andres Piñeda
VP
Published: May 05, 2024
Keywords: TTRPGs, D&D, Escapism, Board Games
Recent Articles
by
Francois de Soete
Thucydides and the Final Frontier: The Enduring Relevance of the History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, Realism, Justice, Science Fiction, Star Trek
by
Deboleena Kundu
Unknown Galaxies, Known Struggles: Studying Realism and Idealism in Indian and International Science Fiction
Indian Literature, Cli-Fi, Afrofuturism, Idealism, Realism
by
Michael Barros
The Matrix Resurrections as Baudrillardian Metacommentary
Matrix, Matrix Resurrections, Hyperreality, Baudrillard, Integral Reality, Simulacra, Postmodernism
by
Morgan Anderson
The Matrix: An Anti-Idealist Product of Its Time
Matrix, Plato, Literary Idealism, Platonic Idealism
by
Joshua Snell
King as Ring Giver: Gift Giving and its Influence on the Christianization of Germanic and Nordic Peoples
Keywords: Ring-giver, Nordic Christianization, Beowulf, Germanic Gift-Giving, Christianization
by
Michael Barros
Unwrapping Christmas: Barthes, Baudrillard, and Disney Holiday Specials
Keywords: Barthes, Baudrillard, Hyperreal, Christmas, Simulacra
by
Francois de Soete
Plato, Dickens, and the Soul: Examining the Role of Justice on the Path to Liberation
Keywords: Plato's Republic, Ring of Gyges, Christmas Carol, Justice in Literature, Victorian Literature
by
Joshua Snell
The Problem of Evil and Its Fruit
Keywords: Buddhism, Comparative Religion, Problem of Evil, Jonothan Edwards
by
Peter Leavell
Editor's Introduction
by
Michael Barros
Spooky Spiritual Spaces Subverting Secularity
Keywords: Halloween, Christianity, Disenchantment, Metamodernism, Secularity
Recent Issues
Vol. 1 No. 2, Christmas 2023: Yuletide Echoes
Vol. 1 No. 1, Halloween 2023: Christian Bogeymen