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January 2017

January 24, 2017

Let My Porkchop Go: Against the Recruitment of Everything

...from a hungry massgoer... One Sunday after Mass, I went to the pub to get...

January 17, 2017

Prophecy & Architecture

While teaching political philosophy at Campion College Australia, one minor thread of the course related...

January 10, 2017

The Borderlands of Art & Worship

There is a third book in the works somewhere which will, when it finally comes...

December 2016

December 21, 2016

Soulless Incisions in the Frantic Pursuit of ‘Now’

The 2011 Spanish thriller The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito), starring Antonio...

December 01, 2016

The Train as Cloister

From a commuter...which could be the editor...or could not be... Trains are weird things... I...

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,...

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 20, 2016

Catfishing, the Synthetic Self & Confession

Readers of the Catholic blogosphere would by now be acquainted with Chase Padusniak (of Jappers...

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...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

Temptations of the “Everybody”

Nota Bene: Due to the impending porting of The Divine Wedgie to the Patheos Catholic...

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 17, 2016

Catholic Social Dispatches

With all the intense hypervigilence and dissection of the recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Letitia,...

April 03, 2016

When What We See Is What We Worship

The old saying goes that the “eyes are the windows to the soul”, and many...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

Material Simulations & Flat Pack Furniture

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

January 2016

January 06, 2016

Syndicate Theology Symposium: Beyond Secular Order by John Milbank

While Christmas and New Year celebrations went on over the last two weeks, the folk...

December 2015

December 07, 2015

Fundamental Joy

It finally happened. In an interstate flight, the Pixar movie Inside Out was watched and,...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

Being Someplace Else

In the anime film Children who Chase Lost Voices, we are introduced to a girl named...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

What UFOs Have To Do With Philosophy

The Centre for the Study of Western Tradition at Campion College is glad to host...