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Into the Metaverse: Jungian Psychology, Esoteric Tarot, and Moral Philosophy in Persona 5

From the Fool’s Journey through the Major Arcana to Dante’s ascent up Mount Purgatory

March 26, 2020 in Video Games, Wisecrack.

The Arcs of Characters and Human History in Avengers: Endgame

The character arcs of Marvel’s Big three parallel prominent views regarding the shape of history.

June 10, 2019 in Movies, Wisecrack.

The Secret Origin(s) of the Joker

Do you want to know how he got those scars?

February 2, 2019 in Wisecrack.

J.R.R. Tolkien and History as the “Long Defeat”

“I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though it contains… glimpses of final victory”

December 29, 2018 in Books, Wisecrack.

“Christ and Culture” and Daredevil

Daredevil’s arc explores the paradigms for societal engagement by Christians laid out by Niebuhr in his classic tome

November 10, 2018 in Television, Wisecrack.

Lex Luthor and Lolita

Far from being a simple slugfest between gaudily garbed do-gooders, Snyder has created a true work of cinema that continues to reward careful rewatching

August 25, 2018 in Movies, Wisecrack.

“Lo, I teach You the Superman”: The Philosophy of Grant Morrison

On the Relation of Metafiction to Metaphysics in Sequential Art

July 14, 2018 in Wisecrack.

“As Above, So Below”: The Esoteric Philosophy of Alan Moore

“‘The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind”

May 12, 2018 in Wisecrack.

The Moral Philosophy of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War

How Thanos’ disagrees with Steve Roger’s mantra “We don’t trade lives”

May 1, 2018 in Movies, Wisecrack.

The Dialectic of Killmonger, Wakanda, and T’Challa in Black Panther

On the competing ideologies of Killmonger and Wakanda in Black Panther and their ultimate synthesis in T’Challa

February 21, 2018 in Movies, Wisecrack.

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