The re-imagining of our own world/universe or even the imagining of a secondary world/universe is something that makes us tick as humans.
Those familiar with Murray’s Hamlet on the Holodeck will know that agency, especially dramatic agency, is a big part of the future of cybernarratives.
Our concept of time — specifically, our mechanical, abstract sense of time — is an artificial (cultural) construct.
Periodization is merely an organizing tool, something used to organize and have some semblance of control over vast swaths of history.
In our attempts to mimic life, we may very well create something that yearns to know why it was created and if there is more to life, to existence, than meets the sensory inputs.
While the Europeans did manage some grand feats themselves, they were not alone. Robbing other civilizations, other peoples, and other geographies of their grand wonders is a crime of Euro-centrism, a virulent form of ethnocentrism.
In The Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo describes, in brief detail, the process in which the Grand Khan, a great and noble ruler by Polo’s accounts, was able to turn paper into money...
To say Gregory VII only excommunicated Heinrich wouldn’t offer the full story.
Ironically, the conflict between the Pope and the Emperor didn’t arise out of the practice of lay investiture.
We live in a secular society, which does not look to gods, goddesses, or spirits for guidance or knowledge, but, rather, to science, coherent logic, and verifiable facts.
THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY offered several confusing and often polarizing moments in public political discourse, particularly in terms of the role religion should have in a supposedly secular society.
After defeating the terrible monster, Grendel, and Grendel’s demonic mother, Beowulf returned to his homeland, where he was given a real hero’s welcome.
