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this is your brain on pop culture
In love with popular entertainment? Great! It's changing the way your mind works.
Nov 28
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Daniel Whyte IV
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'breaking the arc of Narnia'?
Someone finally asked The Question about Greta Gerwig's upcoming adaptation(s)
Nov 11
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Daniel Whyte IV
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Indiana Jones + the translation of the Iliad: October 2023 Essay Recommendations
An unexpected religious adventure, a satanist surprise, and the last invention of humanity... all in a month's reads.
Nov 3
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Daniel Whyte IV
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October 2023
struck dumb by enlightenment: the notable horror in 'Last Voyage of the Demeter'
André Øvredal's Dracula-sourced film drips with the blood of man's divorce from myth.
Oct 28
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Daniel Whyte IV
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is Harry Potter the 'last great myth'?
Watching the Harry Potter movies for the first time and wondering if J.K. Rowling is our generations' Lewis and Tolkien.
Oct 14
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Daniel Whyte IV
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September 2023
make death great again: September 2023 Essay Recommendations
We're talking about God to prospective friends and realizing that plot isn't everything in this early Autumn roundup.
Sep 30
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Daniel Whyte IV
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marking one year of Very Public Secret Society
Thank you, fellow secret keepers! What's the next thing we're exploring together?
Sep 15
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Daniel Whyte IV
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aesthetic: debrief
Some closing thoughts, a summary of the series, and the playlist
Sep 9
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Daniel Whyte IV
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August 2023
art criticism + 'career Narnia': August 2023 Essay Recommendations
Seismically or slightly, everything's shifting: social media, anti-racism, moral art critiques, and the Christian fiction label... This month's most…
Aug 31
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Daniel Whyte IV
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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!
Aug 26
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Daniel Whyte IV
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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
Aug 12
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Daniel Whyte IV
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human becomes her: the apocalypse of Barbie
After all, we're not dead–we're just having an existential crisis!
Aug 6
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Daniel Whyte IV
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