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Thank you, fellow secret keepers! What's the next thing we're exploring together?
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aesthetic: debrief
Some closing thoughts, a summary of the series, and the playlist
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art criticism + 'career Narnia': August 2023 Longform Recommendations
Seismically or slightly, everything's shifting: social media, anti-racism, moral art critiques, and the Christian fiction label... This month's most…
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what's to be done about a society with low appetite?
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beauty fails as a reason for being: on aesthetic + the presentation of the body
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the depths of deliverance
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subsuming present creations with the light of the next: notes from Hutchmoot UK 2023
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eat me, drink me: aesthetic + the individual as self-curator
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aesthetic: debrief
Some closing thoughts, a summary of the series, and the playlist
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the quotient of beauty and desire: an aspirational aesthetic
How art for art's sake becomes art at the expense of everything else. The final post!
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you are what you think: aesthetic + the mind
Call it manifestation by another name, but the imagination is a terrible thing to leave unconsidered
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Charles Dickens and the madness of the multiverse: July 2023 Essay Recommendations
Also: Jesus and Sandman fight Satan, and actual definitions for truth, beauty, and goodness
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good design might save the world: on aesthetic + space
Considering the impact of our environments and the need for shrines in the spaces we inhabit. Also, Greta Gerwig finally talks about Narnia!
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praise God and kick some ass: Warrior Nun (Season 2)
Several things I love about one of Netflix's most visually stunning shows. Spoilers: the good guys win.
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eat me, drink me: aesthetic + the individual as self-curator
From The 1975 to The Horse and His Boy, trading consumption for connection and living beyond the tale we happen to enact
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bored with Michelangelo, but not Taylor Swift: June 2023 Essay Recommendations
James K.A. Smith wrestles with not feeling the way he should about art, and Liz Bruenig on serving God and humanity with her talents...
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beauty fails as a reason for being: on aesthetic + the presentation of the body
What's behind our obsession over appearance as an end in itself?
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