It is less accurate to say that this laugh-out-loud indie hit advanced a recognizable philosophical thesis of its own than to say that it delivered a big, fat, much-needed slap in the face to the[…]
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Author: Chris Sunami
The Incredibles
In honor of the recent release of Incredibles 2, a repost of my look at the philosophical implications of the original movie. While I found it impossible not to like and enjoy Brad Bird’s animated[…]
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Animated Parables of a Broken World
It’s the 30th anniversary of three short animated films I saw when they were new, and never forgot. Some images can stick with you for a lifetime. When I was a teenager, in the late[…]
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Trump vs Obama: America’s A/B Experiment
There’s only one lens through which the Trump presidency makes actual sense: As a self-organizing A/B experiment in sociology, carried out on the grandest of scales. The A part of the experiment was a man[…]
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More Reconstructivists
Over the years my reconstructivist art theory has proven inspirational to a number of interesting artists, thinkers and academics. Here are a couple of the coolest ones I’ve come across recently: Above, painter Peter SmeethPeter[…]
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Both Eyes Open: Remembering James Alan McPherson
I first discovered James Alan McPherson when I read his masterful novella Elbow Room, in a collection of stories by black authors called The African American West. I traced it back to his Pulitzer-Prize winning collection, also[…]
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Roma-nticized
I want to preface this by saying Alfonso Cuaron is a genius. Not only did he write and direct Children of Men, my own pick for top film ever, he also wrote and directed Y[…]
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Saints and Simulators
I’m proud to announce that my new series, “Saints and Simulators,” a book-length exploration of the intersection between religion and technology, is now live at the Partially Examined Life blog. Starting from the deliberately provocative[…]
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Reconstructivist Art: The Neverending Story
Repost – In honor of the 40th anniversary of… Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story (1979) as an example of Reconstructivist Art Michael Ende’s international bestseller found an audience among children and adults alike, due to[…]
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The Hidden Dragon
I hope you’ll forgive me blowing my own horn a bit. After all, it’s not every day you discover something new about something invented nearly two-thousand years ago. The photo above is of an ancient[…]
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