aestheticism

Theology After Google

The person that has unequivocally influenced me most during my seminary career has been Barry Taylor.  He recently shared his thoughts on Theology After Google at Claremont School of Theology.  I missed the conference due to finals, so I was thrilled to learn his talk was online...

  

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The Zombification of Jane

The classic Jane Austen novel we've come to know and love, with the addition of zombies.  Not so much a retelling as it is an appending with the incorporation of a zombie sub-plot.  Is it timely?  Of course.  Will history look kindly on our postmodern tendency to remix and mashup everything?  I don't know.  Am I enjoying it?  Thoroughly. 

Life Inc.

Not unrelated to the Adbusters Hipster post, I'm looking forward to Douglas Rushkoff's latest offering.  I've been pondering for sometime now how capitalism has affected our understanding of what it means to be human.  I anticipate Life Inc. may provide additional pieces to the puzzle.  How am I, as a spiritual being, to navigate the contours of our present day corporatocracy, wherein the primary measure of my value is my FICO score and my ability to spend?  Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like consumerism is undermining our humanity and our ability to be humane?