Historically, ideological divisions within ufology, or groups interested in UFOs, have been divided into, and can still generally be divided into, the materialist, or nuts and bolts, camp and the non-materialist camp. …

As I am sure many people who are interested in the topic of UFOs are aware, NASA announced, on October 21st, 2022, that it was beginning a UFO-oriented program in late October. As a Twitter post reads: We’ve selected 16 individuals to participate in an independent study team on unidentified…

N.B.: All images, unless otherwise stated, are of my own making. It is not difficult, when treading the relatively casual discursive spheres of architectural observation and criticism, to find many instances of designs for élite clientele being mocked for formal ugliness, stylistic ignorance, and architectonic ineptitude. Many of these designs…

In this follow-up to my first piece on abductions, I believe it is worth reexamining a possibility I offered regarding the disparity between abductees’ positive and negative interpretations of their experiences: We cannot underestimate the role the therapist plays here in potentially guiding the abductee to see beyond illusions or…

In this article, I want to reexamine the abduction phenomenon — in particular, the claim (one that I have made myself on occasion) that we cannot know whether it is “positive” or “negative”, relative to the well-being of the involved persons and, by extension, humanity. I will do this by…

It’s occurred to me that, if I am going to continue writing about Elden Ring, the writing will mostly concern other appraisals of it. This isn’t my ideal situation, since this sort of criticality tends to be inspired by irritation; but I will occasionally indulge the irritation, just to get…

AI-made art has never inspired anything more than a shrugging response in me, which creates some difficulty for understanding the explosive appeal of the recently publicly released DALL-E 2 technology. To describe its function and productions as novelty-based would, I think, be accurate, but to leave it at that —…

For me, writing is the most productive when the thesis of an essay is occupying my thoughts each day, and it feels like the resultant writing is an expulsion of an intellectual buildup. But, when I look at some of the writing in retrospect, it’s not obvious what was so…

N.B.: This is a chronological compilation of thoughts shared elsewhere, with the least recent first. One of the more significant forms today of enantiodromia — the tendency of things to become their opposites — is how, as the monstrous is made normative (orcs are hot, Medusa was for feminine solidarity…