Among the many problems associated with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence lies an existential one: the problem of how we conceive ourselves as human subjects, as agents of human intelligence in some kind of similarity to artificial intelligence, and yet dissimilarity to its artificial status. It is this existential
I leant over in the darkness and whispered to my friend, “Odysseus sure is Catholic in this, am I wrong?” I was promptly shushed. We were sitting in an old-timey cinema in St John’s, north Portland, watching Christopher Nolan’s take on The Odyssey. I am one of those over-educated types
At the one-year anniversary of the election of Pope Leo XIV, I would like to reflect on some of the key themes of his papacy thus far. The intention is not an exhaustive survey of all of his actions—I leave that to the vaticanisti who follow his day-to-day doings. I
A decade ago, I made a move from Australia to the United States and served for a year as a visiting research Professor at DePaul University. This brief period of migration—one overlaid on my experience of already being a migrant to Australia—provided an experiential backdrop to what would later become
Always seeking after fulfillment, yet unable to truly reach outside of himself in any creative act, Swann in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is both a pathetic and a tragic character whose example leaves a deep impression on the narrator of the novel. Throughout the story of Swann’s