language
Paper-Mediated Experiences
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009I have recently been grappling with a question:
Is it possible to have an authentic spiritual experience mediated by a computer?
Several of the papers I have been reading raise this issue, particularly with reference to online rituals. Aside from there being no sure way for social scientists to determine an authentic spiritual experience (only an […]
the word “enjoy”
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Last week I went to see a local production of Martin Sherman’s harrowing play Bent, which aside from reducing me to tears, forced me to contemplate lots of issues about my knowledge of history and my understanding of the word “enjoy”.
The story focusses on the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps as early as […]
