More Than Human (Nightmare Masterclass’ Blade Runner analysis)

The genius work of Phillip K. Dick continues; Blade Runner’s thematic material has made its way beyond simply suggesting the distinction between “real human” and replicant is artificial/synthetic itself, to suggesting that in this future world of social decay, our replicant slaves become the last remnants of actual humanity. Humans dehumanize… Continue reading

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the Atheist God

If He is nothing, can’t something come from Him? – The pure dialectical genius of Stephan Colbert. It brings to mind St. Augustine’s provocation that the Church should accept the persuasive conclusions of science, a conception Galileo appealed to in vein while up against Papal censure: Continue reading

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