Tag: alex tsakiris

• [thought piece] No Man’s Sky, Puddleglum, and Our Existential Need for Narrative

  

  Vox, believe it or not, made a pretty good point about No Man’s Sky in its article, No Man’s Sky is an existential crisis simulator disguised as a space exploration game: Okay, so the universe in No Man’s Sky is really, really big. But what, exactly, do you do in it? […] Even when the…

  dappled-things

  November 24, 2018

  culture, gaming, original fiction, thought piece

  alex tsakiris, comics, cosmos, darwin, dc, exisistentialism, joseph campbell, life, lord of the rings, marvel, materialism, meaning, mythology, narrative, no man’s sky, puddleglum, simpsons, spiritualism, spirituality, star wars, superhero films, the silver chair, the x-files, video gaming

• [review] Why Science Is Wrong …About Almost Everything (Alex Tsakiris)

  

  Recently, there has been an academic and social backlash towards the elitism of the scientific community as new slogans have arisen. “Science is a construct”, taken at face value, is one of those popular buzzwords that should – and must – be brought into question. A better statement to theorize is: the trajectory of current…

  dappled-things

  June 15, 2018

  book review, culture, literature, nonfiction, thought piece

  alex tsakiris, atheism, consciousness, culture, modernism, philosophy, postmodernity, religion, science, skeptico, social construct, social theory, technology