The Joker and Jung’s Shadow “I hope my death makes more cents than my life.” Ashley L. Whitaker R. D. Laing, well-known for his innovative approaches to working with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, spoke of insanity as “a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.” Fittingly, in an early scene from Joker, Arthur Fleck asks…
How We Remain Free Why Kingdom Come is More Relevant than Ever by Armond Boudreaux A Book for Today Superhero comics have always reflected upon the values, beliefs, aspirations, and fears of our culture. Since the beginning they’ve commented upon what it means to be human and spoken to the particular problems of our times.…
Riddler’s Revenge and Reason’s Degeneration By Matthew William Brake I finally bought my copy of the Return to Arkham bundle pack today. The Arkham games are the best Batman video games ever made. The gameplay, the character and environment designs, and the multiple side stories all combine to create the immersive experience of getting to…
Batpsyche Arkham Asylum and the Temptation toward Superego By Jack Holloway In the opening of Batman: Arkham Asylum the video game, Batman has arrested the Joker and is escorting him into Arkham Asylum. The Joker is wheeled down the entrance hall and is checked by a doctor. Counterintuitively, he is having a good time, but…
The Killing Joke and Philosophy By Matthew William Brake Written in 1988 by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland, The Killing Joke is one of the most iconic Joker stories ever written. Directors Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan, not insignificant figures in the history of the Batman movie franchise, were both influenced by it,…
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series 