A Syllabus of Internet Theology Errors
Arredondo and Haddad on the collision between the Magisterium and social media.
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Making Sense of a World in Transition
The CSDL on what comes after a world of make-believe.
Awakening from Digital Slumbers
Jessica Hooten Wilson on books that bring us to life.
Time and Meaning
Frank Pasquale on the speed of a life worth living.
A Requiem for Attention?
Mike St. Thomas on losing the war against digital distraction with psychedelics.
How Much Dreck Would a Yellow Check Check?
Gladden Pappin and Gregory Caridi answer the critics of their proposal for a yellow check system.
Friendship in a Time of Cyberattack
Michael Baxter reports from the frontline of the Regis Jesuit University cyberattack.
Marxism Died in the East Because It Realized Itself in the West
Augusto Del Noce ponders the fate of Communism after 1989 in his last publication.
What Lies Beyond Cutting-Edge Power Games?
Jeffrey Bishop on liturgy's resistance to technological will-to-power.
Our New World Without Kith or Kin
Scott Beauchamp, author of the forthcoming "Did You Kill Anyone?," breaks down the Second Demographic Transition's plague of lonely deaths.
War Is Boring
Scott Beauchamp on the boredom of war and modern life.
What Will a Future with Androids Among Us Look Like?
Jordan Wales, Hillsdale College Assistant Professor of Theology, looks at what we will do to AI and what AI will do to us.
What Social Media Does to Time
Leonard DeLorenzo, faculty member at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, breaks down how social media breaks down time.
The Vast Re-Education Program of the Superbowl Ads
Brett Robinson, ND McGrath Director of Catholic Media Studies, decodes the message about the future delivered in the medium of Superbowl ads.
Classroom Technology as the End of Education
Brett Bertucio, UW-Madison PhD student in education policy, outlines what is at stake in resisting the regime of educational technology.
Robots Without Families: On Identity and Organic Continuity
Fr. Ezra Sullivan, professor of Moral Theology & Bioethics at the Angelicum (Rome), details the human conditions that artificial intelligence will never meet.
Technology and the Mystical After Auschwitz
Balázs Mezei, Philosophy Professor at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, analyzes the troubled fate of technology and spirituality in the wake of 20th century barbarisms.
Byung-Chul Han and the Subversive Power of Contemplation
Robert Wyllie mines the philosopher's theories for the reasons why even leisure burns us out in the Internet age.
The Sacramentality of Time
Katherine Infantine, Roncalli HS theology teacher, demonstrates how sacramental practices give us leisure from the constant busyness of the late modern world.
The Digital Displacement of Transcendence at Concerts
Roberto De La Noval, ND PhD candidate in Theology, observes how the emergence of the "flattered self" obliterates secular analogues of transcendence.
The Patron Saint of Media Studies
Brett Robinson, Director of Communications at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, argues that the Eucharist drove McLuhan's techno-theological criticism.
The Idolatry of Work
Carole Baker, visual artist and ThD candidate at Duke Divinity, on resisting the temptation to imagine we live our lives outside of work when we clearly don't.
The Power of a Story to Reorient Racist Assumptions
SPOILER ALERT: This review does indeed contain spoilers from the 2018 Best Picture nominee Get Out.