SEARCH PARTY Searching for Meaning on the Eve of the Apocalypse By Robin Bunce What is Search Party? Trust me: this is a multi-million-dollar question. Right now, scientists and TV execs are closeted in labs across America dissecting each episode, sequencing it’s genome, hoping to crack the formula. Search Party is an everyday story of…
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Diversis Viribus: Diversity in the XCOM games By Udi Becker With an economic value that exceeds Hollywood, the video game has established itself as both an industry and an art that are as much a part of our culture as any other form of media. As the narratives offered by games become more and more…
Avatar the Last Airbender and the Enframing Benjamin N. Parks “The sun’s warmth is challenged forth for heat, which in turn is ordered to deliver steam whose pressure turns the wheels that keep a factory running.” This quote from German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) on the steam turbine could just as easily describe the Fire…
R. Kelly Meets Catullus Biases and The Art-Artist Distinction By Davis Smith The art-artist distinction, as I am calling it, is a wall between the content of the art and the character of the artist who made it. This distinction has had its defenders since the days of Ancient Rome and has value even today.…
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series 