A Brief Eulogy for Concrete and Steel
Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapse reveals the narrative problems in both the information war and the present cultural trajectory.
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Author: Merri
REVIEW: Rainbow Body and Resurrection – Fr. Francis V. Tiso (2016, North Atlantic Books)
Francis Tiso examines the phenomenon of the rainbow body and draws theoretical comparisons to the Christian doctrine of resurrection. Or, what exactly is happening to mystics in Tibet?
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Artificial Society
The AI revolution shows us not just how sophisticated machine learning has gotten, but also how robotic social interaction has become.
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By the Consent of the Governed
Say a prayer, if you could, for the young Indi Gregory. She was born in February, suffered from a rare
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State of the Site: Year in Review
Brief update on the state of the website and where the plans for The Pillarist lay going forward.
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REVIEW: Confessions of a Mask – Yukio Mishima (1949; 1958, New Directions)
With his second novel, Mishima made landfall in the West. The book is far more about the mask, however, than the confessions.
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REVIEW: The Passenger & Stella Maris – Cormac McCarthy (Alfred Ak. Knopf, 2022)
In his first major work in sixteen years, Cormac McCarthy attempts to reckon the length and breadth of existence in The Passenger.
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Decline and Waugh
Evelyn Waugh’s debut novel, Decline and Fall, is not usually considered alongside other works of dystopia. It should be.
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What Internet Anonymity Is, and What It Isn’t
Internet anonymity is harder to maintain as censorship gets worse. Will Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter change anything? Probably not!
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Whether There are Demons in the Machine
AI imagery generation has prompted talk of demons and the demonic online. There is more to this topic than a first glance might indicate.
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