Volume 3, 2003

Jun 26, 2003 | Contents Page Only, Digital Media/Internet, Film, Museums, Older Media, Television, Volume 03

Uncanny Spaces and Gods in the Multiverse Editors, Angela Ndalianis & Leonie Cooper 1. Uncanny Spaces & Gods in the Multiverse: an Introduction – Leonie Cooper 2. Three Poems – William Stobb 3. The Martian in the Multiverse – Michael Punt 4....

Uncanny Spaces and Gods in the Multiverse: an Introduction – Leonie Cooper

Jun 26, 2003 | Volume 03

Entertainment media are contributing to the emergence of new and novel forms of spiritual and religious phenomena in our contemporary (and past) culture. The essays in this issue explore diverse facets of the morphing relationship between entertainment, spirituality...

Three Poems by William Stobb

Jun 26, 2003 | Volume 03

Anti-Matter Daydream Steeples, trees, magnets, praying mantises: does everything depend on reversal? (Though it happens in the insect kingdom isn’t it still quite hard to look at? The near-transparent green. The horrifying swift overturning and devouring.) I...

The Martian in the Multiverse – Michael Punt

Jun 26, 2003 | Film, Older Media, Print Media, Urban Space, Volume 03

I existed independently of time and matter, I felt myself departing from my body as I imagined a spirit would depart -emanating into the cockpit, extending through the fuselage as though no frame of fabric walls were there, angling upward, outward, until I reformed in...

The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: questioning the post-Christian bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George – Felicity Colman

Jun 26, 2003 | Volume 03

Coming Out (of Church) as a Capitalist The spectacle and spectre of the condemned, and/or chosen body illustrates a prefigured contemporary interest in both Nietzschean and phenomenological ‘truths’, presenting the human body as embodied consciousness....

The Most Charismatic King: Nascent Celebrity in the French Renaissance – Lisa Mansfield

Jun 26, 2003 | Volume 03

Few escaped his spell, and even the most astute observers were quite taken with him. By all outward appearances Francis [I] was the very picture of royalty, one of the few Renaissance kings who actually looked and acted the part. (Hansen 1980, p. 98) Although the...