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Review of Robert Albrecht and Carmine Tabone, The Arts and Play as Educational Media in the Digital Age, New York: Peter Lang, 2020.
No full textReview of Robert Albrecht and Carmine Tabone, The Arts and Play as Educational Media in the Digital Age, New York: Peter Lang, 2020
Dogs as Environments: How Dogs Mediate Nature, Social Interaction, and Self-Relation
No full textDogs as Environments: How Dogs Mediate Nature, Social Interaction, and Self-Relatio
Competition on the Origins of Life and the Scientific Oratory Tradition: Polarizing Evolution and Its Instinctual Faith in Prometheus
No full textPredating the current billionaire space race, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus explores an interplay of competing explanations of the origins of life as discoverable in the universe through space exploration. The film’s plot debates evolution versus faith as life’s origins, and demonstrates evolution as victorious over and utilizing faith. Accompanying this analysis is focus on the film’s previously released online prologue scene, a fictional TED Talk that intertwines technological advancements and religious themes that display a brutal Darwinian survival of the fittest hierarchy as the answer to life’s origins. In the age of re- emerging space exploration, Prometheus and its social media-released prologue oration demonstrate technological control over evolution and relegate faith to functioning as a survival mechanism in response to superior and hyperaggressive species. Faith’s value is in assisting humanity to continually seek transcendent answers when confronting life’s beginnings and violent endings
Review: John T. McGreevy’s Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
No full textReview: John T. McGreevy’s Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Franci
Review of Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution
No full textReview of Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolutio
Mapping the Reservoirs of Media Ecology: A Review of Paolo Granata’s Introduction to Media Ecology: Thinkers, Schools of Thought, Key Concepts
No full textMapping the Reservoirs of Media Ecology: A Review of Paolo Granata’s Introduction to Media Ecology: Thinkers, Schools of Thought, Key Concept
Galilee Goes Free: A Review or The Tetragrammaton Only Knows Why A Poem in Adeena Karasick’s Aerotomania: The Book of Lumenations is Dedicated to
No full textGalilee Goes Free: A Review or The Tetragrammaton Only Knows Why A Poem in Adeena Karasick’s Aerotomania: The Book of Lumenations is Dedicated t
A Review of Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings & Touching in the Wake of the Virus Poems by Adeena Karasick
No full textA Review of Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings & Touching in the Wake of the Virus
Poems by Adeena Karasic
Introduction to Special Review Section of B.W. Powe’s Ladders Made of Water
No full textIntroduction to Special Review Section of B.W. Powe’s Ladders Made of Wate
Editor\u27s Welcome
No full textWelcome to our first issue of 2023: Vol 3 No 1. We began our journal 3 years ago in 2020 publishing our first issue on May 15, 2020. Vol 3 No 1 represents the 7th issue of this journal. Back issues are available at https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/issue/archive