Call for Abstracts Doctor Strange and Philosophy Edited by Mark D. White The Blackwell Philosophy and Popular Culture Series Please circulate and post widely. Apologies for cross posting. To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please contact the Series Editor, William Irwin, at williamirwin@kings.edu If you have comments or criticisms for the series,…
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS PHILOSOPHY & POPULAR CULTURE AREA POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AND AMERICAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION 2017 JOINT NATIONAL CONFERENCE WHERE: Marriott Marina, San Diego WHEN: Wednesday, April 12 to Saturday, April 15, 2017 For information on PCA/ACA: http://www.pcaaca.org For conference information: http://pcaaca.org/national-conference/ DATABASE OPENS FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 1, 2016 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2016 All…
Call for Abstracts Wonder Woman and Philosophy Edited by Jacob M. Held The Blackwell Philosophy and Popular Culture Series Please circulate and post widely. Apologies for cross posting. To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please contact the Series Editor, William Irwin, at williamirwin@kings.edu If you have comments or criticisms for the…
Call for Abstracts True Detective and Philosophy Edited by Jacob Graham & Tom Sparrow The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Please circulate and post widely. Apologies for Cross-posting. To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please contact the Series Editor, William Irwin, at williamirwin@kings.edu If you have comments or criticisms for…
Call for Abstracts Alien and Philosophy Edited by Kevin S. Decker The Blackwell Philosophy and Popular Culture Series Please circulate and post widely. Apologies for cross posting. To propose ideas for future volumes in the Blackwell series please contact the Series Editor, William Irwin, at williamirwin@kings.edu If you have comments or criticisms for the…
Lego and Philosophy Call for Abstracts Edited by Sondra Bacharach and Roy T. Cook The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series . Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader. Works focusing on the any aspect of the multimedia Lego phenomenon (including building sets, films and…
What is the Purpose of the Hero? Age of Ultron, Dune, Batman, and Nietzsche By Jeffery L. Nicholas Age of Ultron asks one of those ultimate meta-questions: what is the purpose of the hero? I suspect that Captain America: Civil War will center on this question, but we get the first glimpse in AoU. Tony…
