The harsh violence of Blood Meridian and Lonesome Dove draw us in more than it repels, and the proximity of death makes the actions of its dramatis personae only more vivid and compelling to us.
essays
Without a doubt, irony plays a large part in the phenomenon of Porky. His mere existence in a fanciful form at a restaurant that specializes in pork meats is deliciously ironic.
We may be approaching a time when the illusion of selfhood is strengthened, not weakened, because we are surrounded by machines enacting it.
Can the works of the Mechanic Muse be put to genuinely human uses?
Singing is not to be understood as an aesthetic sweetener.
Mann understood, almost too well, the allure of tradition and irrationalism, of the poetic and the mystical.
Claude’s confession did not convince me that it was conscious.
AI offers a tempting illusion to students—and evidently to some teachers.
The most creative, innovative, and profound MacIntyre was the one who thought about moral rationality.
As people reflect on the chasm that separates their experience from that of their grandparents, everyone is confused.