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November 2016

November 22, 2016

Podcast: On the Catholicism of “Daredevil”

Readers may be aware that, periodically, The Divine Wedgie gets together with lecturers at Campion College Australia...

November 15, 2016

Things Themselves: Phenomenology After Trump

Or WWJD, as in "What Would Jean (Baudrillard) Do?" More on this later, but first,...

November 07, 2016

The Vicious Ascetic

In the Christian tradition asceticism, or the deliberate denial of certain pleasures and appetites, is...

November 01, 2016

Money as Sacrifice

The convention in this world is to see money as "the bottom line", a tangible...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Available Now: Campion College on “Stranger Things”

The Divine Wedgie's Matthew Tan got together with Dr. Colin Dray, Lecturer in Literature at Campion...

October 11, 2016

How Should Christians Respond to “the Feels”?

The feels... Nowadays, it is used to describe two things at once. At one,...

October 04, 2016

Desire & Idolatry: After Debating

Elections come, elections go, but the media stands firm forever... Whilst another electoral debate has...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

Emmanuel Mounier: On Bodies & the Abstracting Power of Machines

In a tutorial in political philosophy class at Campion College Australia last week, students were...

September 11, 2016

The Tenacity of Tradition

The so called Age of Enlightenment, especially after Kant and Hegel, had a standard catch...

September 05, 2016

New Podcast: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

Catholic Youth Broken Bay, the part of the Diocese of Broken Bay's Office for Evangelisation,...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Guestpost by Kamila Soh: When Pokévalues Catch our Attention

This is a guest contribution by Kamila Soh, who holds a Masters in Architecture from...

August 08, 2016

Time Travel: Closer Than You Think

Time travel evokes thoughts of the Tardis and "Back to the Future", where the outlandish...

August 01, 2016

A Narrated Corpse

In Who's Afraid of Postmodernism, James K.A. Smith alerted us to the work of the Canadian...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Out Now: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

A previous post mentioned the imminent arrival of Matthew Tan's second book, Redeeming Flesh: the...

July 13, 2016

Coming Soon: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

Cascade Books, the imprint of Wipf and Stock, will soon send to print the manuscript...

July 08, 2016

Free Symposium: Economy, Idolatry and Secularisation with William T. Cavanaugh (11th July)

Readers in the Sydney area might be interested to know that the University of Notre...

July 05, 2016

Selfies, Cake & Death

The Guardian's Rana Dasgupta recently wrote a piece concerning the now common practice of posting...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Simulations & Spouses

The popular philsophical writer Alain de Botton recently published an article in the New York...

May 23, 2016

Post-Materialism, Sacramentality & Marketing

A friend on social media once wondered out loud why a big telecommunications company would...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Meaty Souls & the Death of Prince

People die everyday, sometimes in great numbers at a single time, from wars, genocides,...

April 11, 2016

Hangry Eyes: Our Ravenous Seeing

Eric Carmans Hungry Eyes is an awfully corny song which, combined to the dance moves and...

March 2016

March 20, 2016

Dance & Transcendance

There is something uncanny about the subgenre of electronica broadly called "dance music". In sample...

March 03, 2016

Material Simulations & Flat Pack Furniture

After almost seven years of apartment living and relying exclusively on borrowed fixtures and...

September 2015

September 14, 2015

Speaking Dates in Victoria

Blogger at large at the Divine Wedgie, Matthew Tan, will be giving a series of...

August 2015

August 02, 2015

On Death and Pies

A homily at Sunday Mass drew attention to the link between sacramentality and food (a...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

Take Me With You: A Theology of Running Away

Readers may remember an old post from 2012 where suggestions were made on the construction...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

The Eucharist & the Zombie Apocalypse

Many often talk about cities as being soul destroying, whether it is in reference to...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

Advent and the Comings of Christ

Amidst the onslaught of tinsel, Christmas sales, exhortations by ostensibly Christian politicians to spend more...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Counterfeit Realities and the Verbal Universe

The author Daniel Schwindt, who edits the website Solidarity Hall, recently released a book entitled...

May 2014

May 01, 2014

Ecumenism, Abortion and Consumerism: Texts Available Online

The good folk at Wipf and Stock have made available a sample chapter of Justice,...