THE WALLS ARE FALLING
“The security guard said you were aggressive.” “He asked me to return the books and I gave them back to him.” “He said you hit him with them.”
Rituals & Mythologies
Poetry and fiction from the liminal spaces.
The Faustian Bargain
Sisyphus pays full price for not having made a Faustian bargain before climbing Mount Academia.
The Man Who Knelt Down (In Defense of Artists Living in Iran)
“Those Iranians in the diaspora who do not understand the tragic nature of life easily draw moral lines.”
A Leader of the Modern Age in Medieval Robes and Turbans
“For an Iranian, contradiction is not a philosophical decoration of life. Contradiction is life itself.”
THE CURIOUS CASE OF HALIBUT SCHMIDT
‘Were the swastikas merely part of Schmidt’s “minimalist, rectal aesthetic”, as scholarship claimed, or did they mean something more? Sisyphus dared to investigate’.
WHY ALL GENUINE ART IS ESSENTIALLY CHRISTIAN
A theological reflection on bona fide aesthetics — the artwork as the incarnation of the divine.
The Case Against the Case Against Curtis Yarvin
“Before a regime falls, it first becomes ridiculous.”
Engineered Apotheosis
AI can be coherent without meaning. Discover how AIdabaoth exposes our obsession with patterns over judgment.