Barbie Incarnated: The Vagina as Signifier of the Human Condition
The 2023 film Barbie has been interpreted as many things: feminist manifesto, two-hour long Mattel commercial, Biblical retelling. The latter is not a niche…
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Raindrops, Atomic Bombs And Film
The ancients recognized seven activities as arts: History, Poetry, Comedy, Tragedy, Music, Dance, and Astronomy. Each was governed by its own muse, each had its own…
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The Spectacle of Self-Improvement
Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take…
Read MoreCall for Submissions: Barbie and Oppenheimer
In a post-pandemic world marked by increasing cost of living and ubiquitous home streaming services, trips to the movie theatre have become for many…
Read MoreReview: An Outcast Age
Clinton Collister and Dan Rattelle, eds. An Outcast Age. Little Gidding Press, 2022, 54 pp, £11.95 paperback. As the second anthology of Christian verse edited…
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The Immachinate Conception: Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, A.I. And The Modern ‘Black Box’ God
Contrary to what we like to believe today, humans quite easily fall into obeying others, and any sufficiently advanced AI is indistinguishable from God….
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Can an AI Paint an Icon?
Recently, there has been much controversy about AI-generated ‘art,’ resulting from the recent developments in Generative Neural Networks (GANs)1 and subsequently a popularization of…
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AI Ethics in a Post-Turing-Test World
In July of last year, Google engineer Blake Lemoine broke his confidentiality agreement with his employer by publishing his conversation with LaMDA, an artificial…
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Enfolding Sounds: Sacred and Profane Music in Concert Programming
What is the difference between a concert programme and a liturgy? As the planner, and one of the performers in the Transept 2023 music…
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