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Video: https://youtu.be/EcT4MqUTdKw To exist and to interact with the world around it, computer code needs to be “embodied” in (of course) computers, and, despite its virtually infinite extensibility (at least in theory), the nature of code’s embodiment has a limiting and determinative effect that we need to understand if we are going to fully grasp …
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Video: https://youtu.be/Msl3uV1yhB4 In which we continue our consideration of computer code with conditional commands, reflecting on the implications of the consequent complexity
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Video: https://youtu.be/k27vb6kybEo In which we begin in earnest our engagement with the World of Code by reflecting on the basic (pun intended) principles of computer programming
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In this introductory episode, we begin a second “season” of the Geek Orthodox podcast, “The World of Code”, with two new summaries of the first season: one generated by AI, the other by yours truly.
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This guest-lecture at Simon Fraser University on Biblical intertextuality in fantasy and science fiction focuses on three excerpts from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien (Gandalf’s fight with the Balrog in The Lord of the Rings), C.S. Lewis (Chapter 20 of Out of the Silent Planet), and John Wyndham (an excerpt from The Day of the …
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The keynote address I gave at Doxacon Seattle in 2019 on the trope of transformation in fantasy literature and its importance, alongside the importance of our embodiment, for our identity.
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In which I read to you an essay I wrote long ago, in a faraway land called St. Vladimir’s Seminary. Source: The full text of the original essay can be found here, on ChristianFantasy.com Related: My favourite wedding homily, “Mawidge and True Love”, from my other podcast, Translating the Tradition
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In which I reflect on some of the echoes of Arthurian legend in Lewis and Tolkien, and on some of the influence and significance of the death of Arthur for me Show Notes: Tolkien: Lewis: “When the Pevensie children had returned to Narnia last time for their second visit, it was (for the Narnians) as …
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In which King Arthur and his death are presented in their most perfectly poetic and Christian form Show Notes: Date: AD 1859-1885 “The Last Tournament” Isolt tells Tristam her response to the news he was married:“‘I will flee hence and give myself to God’”, to which he jokingly replies:Then Tristram, ever dallying with her hand,“May …
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